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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M CAPE YORK. 467 2. DANAIS AFFINIS. Papilio affinis, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 511 (1775). Common. Cape York. 3. DANAIS HAMATA. Euploea hamata, Macleay, King's Surv. Austr. ii. p. 451 (1827). Several examples. Cape York. Genus EUPLOEA, Fabricius. 4. EUPLCEA AN GASH. Euplcea angasii, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. ii. p. 343 (" 1865 " ) . One specimen. Cape York. 5. EUPLOEA MOESTA. Euplcea mcesta, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 284, fig. 3 (1866). d, 2 • Several examples. New Guinea. This is the first occasion on which I have seen the female. 6. EUPLOEA OCCULTA, n. sp. o*. Primaries blue-black, becoming brown upon the outer border ; secondaries with the anterior half of the wings, excepting the costal area, which is whitish, dull black, bounded behind by dark castaneous brown, which shades off into pale brown at the anal area; the anal area crossed by four indistinct paler spots, forming an abbreviated discal series : body above black ; wings below altogether paler, the borders being broadly brown ; primaries with a white dot near the base of second median interspace ; secondaries with two white spots at the base, one in the cell, and four in an oblique series just beyond it, the latter slightly lilacine in tint: pectus black, white-spotted, venter greyish, anal segments with central longitudinal white spots. Expanse of wings 3 inches 7 lines. One specimen. New Guinea. At first sight E. occulta might be mistaken for a large example of E. mcesta ; but the absence of the two characteristic sericeous streaks on the primaries at once distinguishes it. It is in fact more nearly allied to E. eethiops; but its deeper coloration, broader wings, the paler anal area of secondaries crossed by still paler spots, and the absence of many of the spots on its under surface prove its distinctness. Genus CALLIPLOEA, Butler. 7. CALLIPLCEA MESOCALA. Euplcea mesocala, Vollenhoven, Tijd. voor Ent. 1873, p. 244, pl. xi. figs. 1, 2. o .. New Guinea. Originally described from examples obtained at Waigiou : Mr. Macfarlane's example is unfortunately a good deal rubbed, as though it had struggled in the net. 30* |