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Show 1875.] FROM THE N E W HEBRIDES. 611 outer border broader, dark brown, becoming reddish on the wings below paler, the discoidal cell of secondaries without any trace of longitudinal streaks : expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. Aneiteum, New Hebrides, 22nd April 1875. Danais pumila is a very constant and small species, measuring 2 inches 1-2 lines in expanse ; the female has come in this collection ; I therefore have no hesitation in considering the above insect from Aneiteum perfectly distinct. 3. DANAIS MODERATA, n. sp. 2 • Allied to D. hamata, from which it differs in the reddish basal costa of primaries, and in having all the subhyaline spots smaller, narrower, and paler in colour; wings below redder in tint: expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. Vate or Sandwich Island, New Hebrides, 28th April 1875. D. hamata seems to have its representatives everywhere ; whenever we receive an Indian or Indo-Australian collection, some form of it is almost sure to come. The following are now in the collection of the British Museum :- 1. D. septentrionis, from India; *2. D. microsticta, from Borneo; 3. D. leucoptera, New Guinea ; 4. D. hamata, Australia ; 5. D. melittula, Upolu; 6. D. obscurata, Solomon Islands; 7. D. moderata, Sandwich Islands. 4. EUPLCEA HELCITA §, Boisduval. Erromango Island, New Hebrides, 10th May 1875, 5. EUPLCEA LAPEYROUSII S, Boisduval. Havannah, Vate or Sandwich Island, 30th April, 1875; Mota Island, New Hebrides, 5th May, 1875. 6.'EuPLCEA TORVINA, 11. Sp. S. Nearly allied to the preceding, with the same elongated sericeous streak on upper surface of primaries, but slightly longer in the wing, altogether deeper in colour, and with the marginal area and anal angle of secondaries much less pale; no subapical diffused whitish streak in primaries; the same differences below, but much more evident, the costa of secondaries also nearly straight and the litura on first median interspace of primaries elongated into a streak: expanse of wings 3 inches 1 line. Aneiteum, 22nd April, 1875. 7. CALLIPLCEA IPHIANASSA S, 2> Butler. Aneiteum, New Hebrides, 22nd April, 1875. Two forms of this species occur, one having the submarginal spots of primaries large towards costa, the other having them small; this modification is found in both sexes. 8. CALLIPLCEA SERIATA? Herrich-Schaffer. Mare, Loyalty group, May 1875. |
