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Show 1880.] ON NEW PAPUAN BUTTERFLIES. 611 nervule at the angle; middle discocellular straight, in a line with the upper segment of the lower discocellular; upper discocellular short, directed forwards. Secondaries with the anal angle much produced, and terminating almost in a lobe, outer margin slightly sinuous, abdominal margin with a deep sinus near the anal angle ; cell closed with strong nervules; discocellulars long and well defined ; third segment of the median nervure long and distinct, the second branch and the lower discocellular each having a distinct origin. W e have been unable to satisfy ourselves as to the correct position of the remarkable species here described; but on the whole it seems to come nearest in relationship to Mycalesis, though it differs in several important particulars. The palpi are much the same as in that genus, which it also resembles in having the bases of the costal, median, and submedian nervures swollen, and in the general structure of the primary wings. In shape, however, there is a marked difference, especially in the elongation of the secondaries, and in the neuration of these wings: Mycalesis has the lower discocellular starting from the same point of the median as the second median branch, instead of having a distinct origin. In the coloration of both the upper and under surface of the wings Lamprolenis differs widely from any Mycalesis, though M. orseis, in the purple gloss of its upper surface, shows some approach to the style of colour so remarkable in this new form. LAMPROLENIS NITIDA, sp. nov. (Plate LVI. fig. 2.) Exp. 2*4 in. Above brown, shot with metallic greenish red, which varies to ournished copper in different lights, and is more intense on the secondaries. Beneath, primaries dullish brown, with irregular darker spots on the proximal half, and a submarginal dark line, a white-pupillated black ocellus surrounded by a light-brown ring about midway between the end of the cell and the apex ; secondaries very dark brown, faintly marked with a lighter colour, and with two large pupillated ocelli, situated one about the middle of the costal region, the other near the anal angle. Mus. nostr. Two specimens of this brilliant species are in Mr. Goldie's collection. TENARIS CHIONIDES, sp. nov. Exp. 5 in. Upper surface white, costa of both wings dusky black, primaries tinged with a dusky colour towards the base, secondaries with proximal third ochreous ; beneath as above, but with a large ocellus surrounded by an ochreous ring towards the apex of secondaries; head and thorax blackish, body and palpi ochreous. Mus. nostr. This species resembles T. jamesi (Butl. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 767, t. 77. f. 4), but differs in being considerably larger, in having no dusky mark |