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Show 522 DR. A. GUNTHER ON A ZOOLOGICAL [June 23, VII. LEPIDOPTERA. By A. G. BUTLER. The Lepidoptera obtained in Christmas Island were unfortunately placed in a store-box with a large piece of camphor, which got loose during the transmission of the collection to England, and utterly destroyed all the specimens with the exception of three ; the latter are a good deal injured, but two of them are in sufficiently good condition for determination. Among the fragments of wings I am also able to recognize what was doubtless a female Hypolimnas, apparently H. proserpina, Cram., a species occurring in Java. The two Butterflies which escaped destruction are well-marked new species. VADEBRA MACLEARI, sp. n. Allied to V. sepulchralis of Java, but of a deep pitchy-brown colour, the wings almost black in the centre; the secondaries with a broad snow-white external band from anal angle to radial vein, whence it becomes suffused with greyish brown to apex; indications Fig. 4. Vadebra, macleari. of three white spots in the form of a triangle on the radial and subcostal interspaces towards outer margin ; a narrow brown border with black fringe tapering from apex to second median branch, remainder of fringe blackish ; costal area greyish white; body quite normal, excepting that the white spots on the thorax are very small. Wings below chocolate-brown, the primaries with the central area blackish and the internal area whitish ; a bluish-white spot in the cell and two on the basal half of the median interspaces as in V. sepulchralis; secondaries with a small spot in the cell and an angular series of five or six beyond the cell; white external area as above, with three subapical and seven submarginal brown-edged pearly white spots. Expanse of w-ings 79 millim. There were originally five specimens of this fine species, but of four of them only fragments of the wings remain. |