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Show 1877-] ON BUTTERFLIES FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. 139 6. Note on the Echinodermata sent by the Rev. G. Brown from Duke-of-York Island. By EDGAR A. SMITH, F.Z.S. [Received February 19, 1877.] The three species of Echinodermata in the collection made by Rev. G. Brown are all common well-known forms, and have been recorded previously both from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ASTERID^E. 1. SCYTASTER VARIOLATUS, Retzius. Other localities are Zanzibar, Bourbon, Mauritius, Rodriguez, New Caledonia. 2. GYMNASTERIA CARINIFERA, Lamarck. This species has been brought from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Torres Straits, and Sandwich Islands. OPHIURTD^E. 3. O P H I O C O M A ERINACEUS, Miiller & Troschel. Found also in the Red Sea, at Mozambique, Zanzibar, Rodriguez Island, Sandwich Islands, Society Islands, &c. 7. On a Collection of Lepidoptera made by the Rev. G. Brown on Duke-of-York Island and its Neighbourhood. By OSBERT SALVIN, F.R.S., and F. DUCANE GODMAN, F.Z.S. [Received February 2, 1877.] (Plates XXII. & XXIII.) The collection of Butterflies made by Mr. Brown on Duke-of-York Island and the neighbouring islands of New Britain and New Ireland contains examples of 26 genera and 40 species, while in that of the Moths there are examples of 11 genera represented by 14 species. As might be expected from the close proximity of these islands to New Guinea, the Lepidopterous fauna partakes of the character of the larger island ; for, putting aside such widely ranging genera as Danais, Euploea, Mycalesis, &c, the presence of an Ornithoptera belonging to the O. priamus group, of Papilio euchenor and of a species of the P. ulysses group, as well as the absence of any thing like generic peculiarity, shows quite clearly where the relationship of the fauna lies, at least as regards the Butterflies. With the islands of the South Pacific which lie further to the eastward and south-eastward, the Butterfly-fauna of which is slowly being brought to light, the connexion of New Britain and New Ireland is not so intimate. Mr. Butler (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 274 et seq.) has recently published a list of the species described up to that date from the South-Sea Islands |