red-banded jezebel

D. mysis appears to replace the Indian hyparete in the Papuan region and shows the same tendency as the latter to local variation. The oldest form is well known from Australia. — mysis F. (54 c) is characterised by the most extended black margining of both wings and the row of white subapical patches on the forewing. A smaller, lighter-spotted dry-season-form was named aestiva by Butler. North Australia, Queensland. — nemea subsp. nov., from Merauke, Dutch South-West New Guinea, is essentially smaller and the males have beneath a strikingly narrow red submarginal band, which bisects a very broad deep blue-black border. — onca subsp. nov. from Milne Bay (British New Guinea), forms a transition to lara Bdv., from Dutch North-West New Guinea, from which it differs in having the red and black bands on the underside of both wings almost twice as broad. intermedia Mitis, from German New Guinea, shows in the male beneath only as little proximal black bordering to the red submarginal band as oisyme. Females also occur with white, and others with yellow subapical spots on the under surface of the forewing. — oisyme subsp. nov. (54 d) is a small island race with almost quadrate forewing and very sharply defined bands and beautiful chrome-yellow subapical spots on the forewing beneath. Waigeu. - cruentata Btlr. …