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Show 1875.] FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. 613 broader ; short ochreous fascia beyond end of cell narrower and deeper in colour; the spot which follows it (at the end of the subapical series of white spots) white or nearly white, and placed further off; secondaries shorter, with the dark spots and submarginal lines blacker ; below, all the markings brighter and better defined, the silvery spots present in the male, which is generally more deeply coloured, whilst the female is paler in tint than D. bisaltide : expanse of wings 2 inches 10 lines to 3 inches. Erromango Island, New Hebrides, May 1875. 15. DOLESCHALLIA MONTROUZIERI, n. sp. Nymphalis polibete, Montrouzier (nee Cramer). Above very like the preceding species, but much smaller, the lower black spot of secondaries with a lilacine pupil; below much like D. polibete, but duller in colour, with the ocelli proportionally larger and better defined : expanse of wings 2 inches 5 lines. Vanua Levu, New Hebrides, 6th May, 1875. This species cannot be mistaken for D. polibete, the upperside being altogether brighter in colouring, with the black-brown area much more sharply defined as in D. bisaltide. It seems that I did not go far enough in my anticipations with regard to Doleschallia; I expected only to see one new form from the South Seas, whereas two have been discovered. 16. CHARAXES CLITARCHUS *, Hewitson. Mare, Loyalty group, May 1875. This scarce and beautiful species has hitherto been unique in Mr. Hewitson's collection from New Caledonia ; our example is rather larger, and has the primaries slightly more falcated than the type ; it also differs, in several unimportant points, in pattern and coloration. 17. DIADEMA NERINA, var. Fabricius. Erromango, New Hebrides, 10th May, 1875. One example of a handsome variety of D. nerina, in bad condi - tion ; it approaches D. proserpina in colouring, but has the oblique subapical band of primaries clouded with fulvous. 18. DIADEMA PERRYI, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 3.) Size and form of D. montrouzieri: general character of pattern as in D. pandarus. S. Wings above deep brown; several streaks across the cell, a broad oblique postmedian diffused band, and two submarginal undulated bands separated only by a black line, pale brown; a bifid subapical costal spot placed obliquely on the subcostal branches, and six rounded discal spots parallel to the margin, all white with a narrow lilacine edging ; secondaries with the discal area from just beyond the cell abruptly paler, becoming tawny ochreous externally, and bounded near the outer margin by a series of ochreous lunulated * Exot. Butt. V. Char. pl. iv. figs. 16, 17 (Oct. 1873). |