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Show 1877.] ON C O L E O P T E R A F R O M D U K E - O F - Y O R K ISLAND. 151 of the secondaries white, washed with metallic green except the cilia, and with a pink patch spread over the middle of the median branches : beneath white, washed with pale metallic green, apical angle, a band crossing the primaries, and an irregular band following the curve of the outer margin of the secondaries greenish black; cilia white; antennse black ; body greenish black above; abdomen beneath orange. Though abundantly distinct both in form and colour, the pink colour on the secondaries of this species suggests a resemblance to the insect described by Hopffer as Nyctaleemon metaurus (Neue oder weniger bek. Schmett. d. k. zool. Mus. z. Berlin, Heft ii. p. 2, t. 11. f. 3, 4), from the South Seas. W e know of no other species with which it can be at all compared. PALYID^E. 11. EUMELIA ROSALIA (Cr.). A single imperfect specimen apparently belonging to this widely ranging Moth. MlCRONIDjE. 12, 13, 14. MICRONIA.-Three species of this genus are in the collection, only one of which is represented in the British Museum, under the name of M. justaria, Walk. (Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 821 (Dorey). EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XXII. Figs. 1, 2. Euplcea browni, p. 142. 3, 4. Doleschallia browni, p. 145. PLATE XXIII. Figs. 1, 2. Diadema unicolor, p. 144. 3, 4. Pieris quadricolor, p. 147. 5, 6. Alcides aurora, p. 150. 8. O n the Coleoptera collected by the Rev. G. Brown, C.M.Z.S., on Dnke-of-York Island, N e w Ireland, and N e w Britain. By H. W . BATES, F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Eeceived Feb. 20, 1877.] (Plates XXIV. & XXV.) The Coleoptera collected by the Rev. Mr. Brown comprise 44 species, all in single or very few specimens, except one large and beautiful Longicorn, a new Batocera, of which there is a great number of specimens, mostly in a much damaged condition. It is evident at a first glance of the contents of the jar, in which were a quantity of large Orthoptera (Eurycantha horrida and numerous Locustidse), Spiders, and even a Bat, that the collection was hastily made, and can give no adequate idea of the extent of the |