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Show 150 ON BUTTERFLIES FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. [Feb. 20, 4. NEOCHJERA EUGENIA (Cr.), Pap. Ex. t. 398. f. M (Amboyna). A single specimen (in good c ndition) agrees very closely with Cramer's figure, and doubtless belongs to the species there represented. 5. CLEIS POSTICALIS, Gue'r. Voy. Coq. p. 286, t. 18. f. 5. Originally described from specimens taken at Port Praslin, N ew Ireland, during the voyage of the ' Coquille.' The single specimen sent by Mr. Brown (the antennas of which are gone) agrees accurately with the plate cited above. NYCTIMERIDJE. 6. NYCTIMERA, sp. ? A species allied to N. lacticinia (Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 128. f. E), which, however, is described as coming from the Coromandel coast. LIPARID^E. 7. REDOA, sp. A specimen in poor condition, but belonging to this genus. OMMATOPHORID^E. 8. NYCTIPAO, sp. ? A species allied to N. crepuscularis (Cr.) (Pap. Ex. t. 60. f. A ), from Amboyna &c, but perhaps nearest N. ephesphoris (Hiibn.). lt differs from all the species represented in the British Museum in the position of the transverse band of the secondaries. CYDIMONI D^E. 9. NYCTALJEMON PATROCLUS, L. Papilio patroclus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 749, ex Clerk, Icon. t. 37. f. 1; Cr. Tap. Ex. t. 198. f. A. The specimens sent by Mr. Brown (two males and one female) agree closely with the figures of Clerk and Cramer, and doubtless represent the true P. patroclus of Linnaeus. This species is at once distinguishable from its allies by the direction of the transverse band of the primaries, which, instead of running nearly parallel to the margin, starts from a little beyond the middle of the costa and crosses to the inner margin just within the anal angle. Cramer's figure was taken from an Amboyna specimen. 10. ALCIDES AURORA, sp. n. (Plate XXIII. figs. 5, 6.) 8 Exp. 3*85. Primaries pointed ; outer margin strongly curved, the anal angle falling well within the apical angle of the secondaries ; secondaries rounded, without median projections, dentate on the outer edge, each tooth being rounded and furnished with a prominent fringe ; primaries and basal half of secondaries deep greenish black ; the cell metallic green blending with a green band which crosses the primaries beyond the cell to the inner margin just inside the anal angle ; base of the costa variegated with the same colour ; distal half |