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Show 466 MR. A. G. B U T L E R O N [June 5, was repeated. On examining the nest I found four fine young Cuckoos." Of O. edolius he writes, "calls frequently during the night, particularly about 9 or 10 o'clock. I have found their eggs and young in the nests of the Small Butcher-bird (Lanius silensl)." This is also pretty good testimony of the distinctness of the two species. 4. O n a Collection of Lepidoptera from Cape York and the South-east Coast of N e w Guinea. By A R T H U R G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Received May 15, 1877-] In the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for last year published an account of the first collection of Lepidoptera sent home by the Rev. J. S. Macfarlane ; it contained thirty-nine species, of which six were described as new to science. The present collection contains fifty species; but one of them is too much rubbed for specific determination. The new species are nine in number, five of them being Butterflies and four Moths, as follows :- Euplcea occulta. New Guinea. Tenaris onesimus. New Guinea. Lyceena conformis. Cape York. Terias sana. Cape York. Papilio macfarlanei. New* Guinea. Chcerocampa celata. Cape York. Euchromia eemulina. Cape York. Hydata spectabilis. Cape York. Cryptophasa russata. Cape York. Of species previously recorded, the most striking is a female the rare and handsome "Euplcea" mesocala of Vollenhoven. In the arrangement of the species I shall follow my previous list (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. S. 4, vol. xviii. pp. 122-128), and that on Lepidoptera from Port Moresby (/. c. pp. 240-249). RHOPALOCERA. Family NYMPHALID^E. Subfamily DANAINAE, Bates. Genus DANAIS, Latreille. 1. DANAIS ARCHIPPUS. Papilio archippus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 49 (1793). Several examples. Cape York. |