DANAINAE 
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danaida 
two dots upon diseocellulars, black: faint traces of an incomplete series of subtermiual dots, white: 
sexmark in ai*ea la, close to vein 2, black dusted groy. 
Beneath. Borewing* as above: apex yellow-brown: subterniinal dots larger, lliiuhving yelIo’.v- 
l>rown: costa and termen narrowly black, with two complete series of irregular large subterminal dob, 
wliite: three spots on discocellulars, black edged white: sexmark black centred white. 
9 . AnovE and Beneath as in male: sexmark absent. 
Loc. Cape York 3 4 12. Prince of Wales Is. 5 0 7. Banks Is. 2 3. Claudie Ik 11. Cairns ti 7 11. 
Kuranda 1 2 0 7. Ingham 4 5 0. Townsville /. iMackay 1 2 3 4 8 10 11 12. Brisbane 1 10. 
Stradbroke Is. 12. Esk. Pichmond K. 3 4 9. Port iMacquarie 10. Mannino- E. 3 4 . Sydney 2. 
Blue IMls. 4. iMelbourne 2 10 llA'^ Gisborne 3 10 ll.v'l 'Sea Lake. Dimboola 11. Zcelian. Adelaide 4 
9. Balaklava 4. Pcrtli. Waroona 2. Xanniue 7. Dorre Is. 10. Eortescue K. Derby. AVyndliam 
l.'S.Daly E. 4. Darwin 4 5 7 8 9 11 12. Eoper R Tennants Creek. 24cr 10Q. 
AVidely distributed tiirougliout Australia: in the south sporadic, but elsewhere very abundant. Su 
far we have seen no exami)le with a white hindwing above {alcippus), or with the white subapical baml 
of forewing absent {dorippus). 
6 . Danaida melissa Cramer. (Java). 
6 a. D. melissa hamata Macleay. Fig. 4. 
King's Survey Australia, ii, p. 461, n. 147, 1827. 
d* . Above. Forewing black: a basal streak in cell: a spot (sometimes divided) in end of cell: two 
streaks in area la, rarely extended to a spot beyond: a spot in area 2 and another in area 3 near cell: 
a baud of irregular discal spots: a band of subui)ical s])ots: a series of large subterminal dots: all 
these streaks, s 2 )ots and dots, liyaline blue. Hindwing black: a streak on dorsum: a long and a short 
streak in area lb: a foidced streak in base of each area la, 2 and 3: an elongate spot in base of each 
area 4, 5 and 6: two streaks in cell, lower one bent ui)wards at termination: a series of irregular 
discal sijols: a series of irregular large subtermiual dots: all these streaks, spots and dots, hyaline blue, 
those nearest dorsum shading ^jaler: sexmark in area la near vein 2, grey-black. 
Beneath. Forewing dark brown: ajiex brown: spots and streaks as above. Hindwing brown: spots 
and streaks as a])o\’e: sexmark raised like a 2 >ouch, brown. 
$ Above and Beneath as in male: sexmark absent. 
Loc. Cape York 3 12. Prince of AVales Is. 5 0. Murray Is. 8 9. Darnley Is. 4 5 6. Claudie R. 12. 
Cairns 6 7. Kuranda. Ingham 4 5 9. Townsville 3 4. Mackay 2 3 4. Gympie. Brisbane. Black 
butt 1. Eiclimond E. 1 2 3.* Sydney 4. Daly E. 4. Darwin 1 2 3 S 9 12. 21cf 14 9. 
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The size and the sliape of the hyaline markings are variable: the basal streaks have a tendency to 
coalesce and to extend to the contiguous si)ots, but in doing so they never cross a vein. 
Genus TELLERVO Kirby. 
Lloyd's Natural History, Butterflies, Vol. 1, 2^- 28, 1896. 
Antennae more than half the length of costa, with clubs long, gradual and slender. Eyes smooth. 
Forewing with vein II and vein 10 from subcostal Aveil before end of cell: cell very long: vein la 
forked at base. Hindwing rounded. 
Type. Tellervo zoihts Fabricius. 1 
The genus contains a single variable S 2 )ecies, S 2 )ht up into a number of easily recognised geogi’aphical 
races, Iavo of which occur in Australia. Others are found in New Guinea, the Soloinons, the Bismarck?, 
and other islands. The early stages are unknoAvn, so the systematic 2 )osition of the genus is still doubtful: 
it is said to be closely allied to the South American genus Ithomia, 
7. Tellervo zoilus Fabricius. 
In Seitz' i\racrole 2 >idoptGra, Frubstorfer wrongly lists llainadrpas moorei IMacleay as a form of tins 
species: moorei is a form of Acca venilia (No 56a). 
7a. T. zoilus gelo nov. 
Above. Forewing black: a spot in lower end of cell, a suljcostal dot aliove end of cell, a large 
jAostcellular s 2 )ot, and a S 2 ^ot in area 3 near termen, AA’liite and semitransjAarent: a large sexmark 
extending fioni dorsum to cell, dull black. Ilindwing black: a large ovoid central area, exteuding 
obscurely to dorsum, Avbite. 
