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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM CAPE YORK. 469 Genus DIADEMA, Boisduval. 14. DIADEMA VELLEDA. Papilio velleda, Cramer, Pap. Exot. pl. 349. figs. C, D (1782). A series of both sexes. ? N e w Guinea. In the present consignment there are no specimens of the true Diadema alimena; I am therefore strongly inclined to believe that D velleda is a good species confined to Southern New Guinea, and that the example previously noted (Ann. & Mag. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 124) was taken there, and not at Cape York : the habitat is not indicated. Genus CETHOSIA, Fabricius. 15. C E T H O S I A IMPERIALIS. Cethosia imperialis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. S. 4, vol. xviii. p. 124. n. 15 (1876). One example. Cape York. Genus JUNONIA, Hiibner. 16. JUNONIA ALBICINCTA. Junonia albicincta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 5. One dwarfed example. Cape York. Genus MESSARAS, Doubleday. 17. MESSARAS TURNERI. Messaras turneri, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. S. 4, vol. xviii. p. 244. n. 17 (1876). One dwarfed example. New Guinea. Family LYCENID^E. Subfamily LYC^ENIN^E, Butler. Genus LYCEENA, Fabricius. 18. L Y C E E N A C O N F O R M I S , n. sp. Above brown distinctly shot with violet, excepting the costal and external borders, which are rather broadly olive-brown, fringe rather paler; body blackish: wings below sordid whitish; outer margin bordered by a slender black line ; discocellulars and a submarginal series of spots, behind which is a series of lunules, brown ; primaries with a dot in the cell, a second subcostal, and an arched discal series of six spots, black ; secondaries with an irregular series of spots (encircling the discocellular litura from a short distance) formed of two lines, the first crossing the cell, the second forming an arc across the disk, all black ; the whole of the spots on the under surface margined with pure white ; body below white. Expanse of wings 10 lines. One example. Cape York. Allied to L. lysizone. |