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Show 610 - MR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 16, could glean I found it was so. Two English gentlemen saw it brought up by divers from the bottom, who stated it grew sponge downward and spicula upwards. Upon stating this to an awful authority of the British Museum he said, ' Pshaw I Japanese always stuff up Europeans,' and added by way of proof, ' we hauled up some the other day in the Bay of Biscay with a hook and line, and the spongy stuff came up first, so it must be so.' " 6. On a Collection of Butterflies from the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, with Descriptions of new Species. By A R T H U R G. B U T L E R , F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Received October 2, 1875.] (Plate LXVII.) It will be remembered that I published a list of the Butterflies the South-Sea Islands in the ' Proceedings ' for 1874, in which I enumerated 104 species, reported by various entomologists as occurring in that interesting region. In the present paper I propose to give a list of the species recently sent to the British Museum by our indefatigable correspondent W. Wykeham Perry, Esq., H.M.S. Pearl, as the result of a short cruise through the New Hebrides. Mr. Perry writes, " W e made such a hurried run through the group, that I had but a few hours to spend at each place which we visited, and therefore less opportunity than I had hoped to have of making a more varied collection." Notwithstanding the short time in which the whole of the species were captured, they represent a most interesting and instructive consignment, not only as clearing up difficulties respecting some of the forms inserted with hesitation in my previous list, but because nearly half of them are new to science-one or two being, moreover, referable to genera which have ever been especial favourites with lepidopterists. Fortunately, Mr. Perry has sent good series of several of the commoner species ; so that their constancy is now firmly established, and all doubt of their being variations or sports of other Butterflies is at once set at rest. The following is a list of the species. 1. DANAIS PUMILA, Boisduval. Mare, Loyalty group, May 1875. Previously only known from New Caledonia. 2. DANAIS HEBRIDESIA, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 6.) 2 . Allied to D. pumila, but considerably larger, the wings proportionally longer ; primaries with the outer margin distinctly sub-angulated below the apex ; basal yellow area rather paler ; the subapical band more oblique, and consequently longer ; secondaries with the upper discocellular scarcely perceptibly angulated ; the |