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Show 1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW-GUINEA BUTTERFLIES. 767 Primaries above deep coppery brown, the costal and apical half of primaries and the submedian area of secondaries almost black, with very feeble bluish reflection ; primaries with a large trifid subapical white spot, washed with lilac ; two submarginal white spots immediately below it: secondaries with the costal area shining brownish grey ; the upper half of the cell and the area immediately above it sordid whitish. Wings below more uniform in colour than above ; primaries with the interno-median area whitish ; five subapical spots in an oblique series, the third largest: secondaries with two subapical bluish dots, the lower one barely visible ; base of wings and pectus black, white-spotted. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 lines. The smallest species hitherto described. TENARIS JAMESI, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 4.) Wings semihyaline, snow-white, with a diffused basal ochraceous nebula ; primaries with the costal area and apex black-brown, external angle irrorated with sooty brown : secondaries with the apex and apical border sooty brown ; a large subapical ocellus visible from transparency of the wing; a large ocellus on the first median interspace black, with white-dotted lilac pupil and diffused yellowish iris with greyish edge (round which is seen a pale ochraceous zone, owing to the transparency of the wing) : head and collar black ; antennae black, palpi orange with black tip, thorax grey, the prothorax brownish ; abdomen ochreous. Primaries below nearly as above, but without the sooty external angle ; secondaries without the sooty apex and border, with two large ocelli, one subapical the other as above, black irrorated with blue scales, with large white pupils and broad grey-bordered ochreous irides. Pectus and legs black. Expanse of wings 4 inches 3 lines. Allied to T. rnylacha. ATELLA CERVINA, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 5.) Above reddish tawny, paler in the female, with blackish markings as in A. arruana, but more pronounced ; wings below also much as in A. arruana, but the basal area not washed with lilac in either sex, the black spots more pronounced, the whitish discal and submarginal spots more silvery, and the submarginal zigzag ochreous band much more irregular: expanse of wings, cS and $ , 2 inches 5 lines. Though nearly allied to T. arruana, this species is much larger, darker, more heavily bordered and spotted with black-brown, and the basal area below differs markedly in the absence of the strong lilac wash which is persistent in the Aru species. HETEROCE RA. CELERENA, Walker*. Allied to Celerena (of Lepidoptera Heterocera) ; wings larger, more * Mr. Walker altered the type of his genus Celerena, originally described in the ' Transactions of the Entomological Society,' from C. divisa to C. sobria; as the two species are not congeneric, I would propose for the latter (which is the type of Celerena in the Lepidoptera Heterocera) the name of Craspedosis, n. gen. |
