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Show 468 MR. A. G. BUTLER O N [June 5, Subfamily SATYRIN^;, Bates. Genus MYCALESIS, Hiibner. 8. MYCALESIS FLAGRANS. Mycalesis flagrans, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. S. 4, vol. xviii. p. 243. n. 11 (1876). Two examples. New Guinea. Genus YPTHIMA, Hiibner. 9. YPTHIMA ARCTOUS. Papilio arctous, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 489. n. 202 (1775). Several specimens. Cape York. Subfamily MORPHINE, Butler. Genus TENARIS, Hiibner. 10. TENARIS ONESIMUS, n. sp. 5 . Primaries smoky brown, the apex and costa being darkest; a broad white patch enclosed between the subcostal and second median veins, and just impinging upon the end of the discoidal cell; secondaries white, tinted with ochraceous towards the base ; the costa and a broad outer border smoky brown; thorax dark brown, whitish behind, palpi with black upper margin, otherwise ochreous; abdomen ochreous : primaries below as above; secondaries white, the veins, base, costa, and apical half of outer margin smoky brown ; two large black ocelli, pupillated with white, adorned internally with a slender greyish crescent, with broad ochreous iris and narrow brown zone, one of them apical, the other upon the first median interspace, near the outer margin ; pectus dark brown, venter ochreous. Expanse of wings 4 inches 7 lines. One specimen. New Guinea. Subfamily NYMPHALIN^E, Bates. Genus DOLESCHALLIA, Felder. 11. DOLESCHALLIA AUSTRALIS. Doleschallia australis, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. iii. pl. figs. 1, 2 (1867). One example. Cape York. Genus NEPTIS, Fabricius. 12. NEPTIS MORTIFACIES. Neptis mortifacies, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 5. Several females. Cape York. 13. NEPTIS LATIFASCIATA. Neptis latifasciata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 4. One male. Cape York. |