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melanitis 
22aa. M. leda bankia f^barnardi Lucas. Fig. 98. 
Proceedings Royal Society Queensland 1892, p. 4. 
Abovk. Porewing; red-brown with an obscured discal suft’usion, dull orange-brown; a patdi between 
vein 3 and vein 5, brown-black, enclosing two small spots, white. Hindwing red-brown: often a faint 
subtenninal ocellus in area 2, and sometimes another in area 3. 
Bkxeatii variable: usually some shade of grey-brown covered with dark brown striae: forewingwitb 
one to three and hindwing with five, irregular subtenninal ocelli. 
9 . Auovk and Bp:xeatk as in male: usually slightly jialer and tooth of vein 4 of hindwing longer. 
Loc. Prince of Wales Is. (i. Banks Is. 2 3. Darnley Is. 4 5 12. Claudie K. 1. Cairns 5 6 . Kuranila 
2 12. Ingham 4 9. Mackav 1 3. Brisbane 1 2 12. Stradbroke Is. 12. Esk 2. Richmond R. 1 2. 
Daly R. 4. Darwin 12. 219- 
This is the less abundant ocellated form predominant from December to 'March. The ternien of 
the forewing is mueli straigiiter than in bankia. 
23. Melanitis amabilis Boisdiival. (New Ireland). 
23a. M. amabilis Valentina Fruhstorfer. Fig. 789. 
Entoniologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart, 1908, p. 83. 
. Above. Forewing chocolate brown: a broad oblique band from costa at half to just before vein la 
at toriius, yellow. Hindwing chocolate brown: produced to a tooth at vein 4. 
Beneath. Forewing red-brown; apex suffused whitish; costa naiTowly banded with white: two 
bands across cell, whitish: oblique band as above but broader, extending along dorsum, and pale yellow: 
a small subapical ocellus in area 5, red-brown centred whitish. Hindwing red-brown: dorsmn, and 
ternien to vein 3, broadly suffused whitish: two obscure bands from costa across cell, whitish: a large 
suliapical ocellus in area (i, and a minute one nearer termen in area 5: a row of three subtenninal 
ocelli in areas la, 2 and 3, middle one the largest. 
9 . Above. Forewing brown: basal third red-brown: a broad oblique band from costa at half to jus! 
before vein la at tornus, white. Hindwing red-brown: termen broAvn. 
Beneath as in male, but Avith oblique band of foreAving Avhite. 
Loc. Darnley Is. 4. Id^. 
Our single male appears to be identical with Fi'uhstorfer’s subspecies from New Guinea, \yhkli n 
liuA’e used in describing the female. 
Genus YPHTHIMA Hubner. 
Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, p. 63, 1816: Elwes & Edwards, Transactions Entomological Society 
London 1893, p. 1-54. 
Antennae less than half the length of costa Avilh clubs long, gradual and slender. Eyes smootli. 
1 oreAving with A'ein 12 and median A’ein moderately, and A'ein la slightly, sAvollen at base; vein 11 from 
subcostal before end of cell : A'ein 10 from A'ein 7 beyond end of cell ; vein C and vein 5 of almost equal 
length: cell about half the length of Aving. HindAving Avith A'ein 3 and vein 4 arising well apart. 
Type. \ phthima pliilomela Johannsen, from Java. 
This genus contains a number of small Indo-Malayan butterflies of very similar general appearance- 
Bingham states that A'ein 11 of foreAving is gi\'en off beyond the apex of cell. We lind this is not so: 
\ein 11 arises from the subcostal in arctoifs. and also in seA'eral of the Indian species listed by Bingham: 
A\e have examined many s]>eeimens, and bleached quite a number and Ave find this character constant. 
24. Yphthima arctous Fabricius. Fig. 141. 
Systema Entomologiaci, p. 489, 1775: Donovan, Insects New Holland, pi 24, f. 2, 1805. 
cT . Aboae. ForeAving brown: a lai'ge tAvin-pupilled subapical ocellus in areas 4 and 0 , black ringed 
orange. IlindAving broAvn: a small sometimes very minute subtornal ocellus in area 2. black ringed 
orange. 
Beneath yelloAvish brown coA'ered AA'itli faint darker striae: ocelli as above. 
9. Above and Beneath as in male: sometimes paler. 
^ 11* PHnee of IVales Is. 5 (i. Banks Is. 2 3. Darnley Is. 5 6 12. Murray Is. 8 9- 
tlaudie R^ Coen 11. CooktoAvn 10. Cairns 6 7, Kuranda 0 7. Ingham 4 0 9. Mackav 12 31 
