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Show 1877.] BUTTERFLIES FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. 149 have the six silky black spots on the anterior wings mentioned in the description, though the uppermost is almost obsolete. Until examples from Woodlark Island are compared with these specimens, it will not be possible to say if they really belong to P. telemachus or not. 38. PAPILIO POLYDORUS? A male and a female of a species closely allied to P. polydorus, L., is in the collection. The species differs in its much shorter secondaries, and in the almost total disappearance in the male of the red submarginal spots of the upperside. It seems most nearly allied to the true P. polydorus, and is perhaps but a local form, which it is hardly necessary to characterize at present. HESPERIDAE. 39. TAGIADES, sp. ? A specimen of a species allied to T. japetus (Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 365. f. E, F), but differing in having a large white spot on the secondaries, which is surrounded by a dark border between it and the white fringe of the outer margin. As only a single specimen is sent, it is not advisable to name the species, if such it be, at present. 40. PAMPHILA AUGIAS. Papilio augias, Linn. A single worn specimen, apparently belonging to this widely ranging species. HETEROCERA. Mr. Brown's collection contains fourteen species of Moths, the genera of which and some of the species we have, with Mr. Butler's assistance and by comparison with the specimens in the British Museum, been able to determine. They are as follows:- AGARISTID^E. 1. OPHTHALMIS LINCEA (Cr.) Pap. Ex. t. 228. f. B. Agrees with specimens so named in the British Museum and with Cramer's figure. Cramer, however, states that his insect came from Surinam. HYPSIDJE. This family is represented by three genera. 2, 3. H Y P S A by two specimens (in bad condition) of two species, one of which appears to be allied to Hypsa intacta, Walk. (List Lepidopt. Brit. Mus. part ii. p. 451); the other approaches the species figured in the * Voyage of the Astrolabe' as Agnaisaustralis (Boisd. Voy. Astr. p. 252, t. 5. f. 3 ) ; but the hind wings, instead of being yellow edged with black, are uniform dingy brown ; the white mark at the base of the primaries is also absent. |