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Show 1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW-GUINEA BUTTERFLIES. 765 the visceral anatomy of Elaphodus with the facts brought forward Prof. Flower's important memoir on Moschus tends to confirm this view. The internal anatomy of Hydropotes is not known ; but the absence of any frontal tuft, the presence of an inflated auditory bulla, together with the non-ankylosis of the cuneiform bones with the naviculo-cuboid of the tarsus, are against its Cervuline affinities. With Cervulus there is every reason to believe that Elaphodus is most intimately related. The size of the animal, the conformation of the skull, the fusion of the cuneiform bones with the naviculo-cuboid, the non-development of the metatarsal tufts, and the presence of the frontal crest are all evidences in that direction, as is the similarity of the shape of the glans penis in the two genera. It appears to me that Cervulus, together with Elaphodus, form a subfamily of the Cervidae, which might be termed the Cervulinae and be defined as follows :- CERVULINAE. Small Cervidae in which the proportionally small antlers are situated on elongated pedestals, up the front of which the lengthy hair of the crest which is developed in the frontal region extends. Females hornless. Suborbital glands large in both sexes. No metatarsal tufts. Canine tusks large in the males, minute in the females. The second and third cuneiform bones of the tarsus ankylosed with the naviculo-cuboid. The lateral metatarsals wanting, and the lateral metacarpals present only as slender bones opposite the upper ends of the third and fourth metacarpals, or wanting altogether. Two genera, are contained in this subfamily. Cervulus. Cervulinae in which the pedestals of the antlers are divergent, and send downwards from their roots strong supraorbital ridges, the antlers themselves diverging into a brow-antler and a simple beam. Cutaneous glands developed on the inner side of each supraorbital ridge. Elaphodus. Cervulinae in which the pedestals of the antlers are convergent and do not send downwards supraorbital ridges. Antlers minute and simple, scarcely projecting beyond the much-developed frontal hair-tuft. Frontal glands absent. 4. Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera from N ew Guinea, with notice of a n e w Genus. B y A R T H U R G . B U T L E R, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Received November 4, 1876.] (Plate LXXVII.) The following novelties formed part of a collection recently made in Yule Island, N e w Guinea, by Dr. James. |