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Show 1878.] MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALVIN ON NEW BUTTERFLIES. 733 Fig. 10. Melania subplicatula, p. 729. 11. Bullia persica, p. 730. 12. Ostrea, attached to a Trochus, whose character of sculpture it has assumed, p. 730. 13, 14. Cyprcea peasei, var. monstrosa, p. 731. 16. Descriptions of some apparently new Species of Butterflies from New Ireland and New Britain, sent by the Rev. G. Brown. By F. D. G O D M A N and O. SALVIN. [Eeceived June 18, 1878.] The five species described below form part of a collection just received from Mr. G. Brown. W e are preparing a full report of this collection, which we hope to lay before the Society in the autumn. In the mean time we have thought it desirable to publish the following descriptions. EUPLOEA ERIMAS. 3. Exp. 3*7. Upper surface rich steel-blue, a large patch of bluish white on the primaries cut by the dark median nervure and its branches and by the nervules at the end of the cell; there is a dark triangular spot in the acute angle between the mediau nervule and its first branch ; the inner margin of the primaries is strongly convex, aud covers a brown patch on the secondaries ; the secondaries have a whitish median band cut by the nervules, one section falling inside the cell; the inner edge of this band is deeply sinuated, as also is the outer edge to a less extent. Beneath greenish black, the spots of the upper surface are much more broken up, that on the primaries being divided into eight separate portions, the largest of which lies just within the cell; that on the secondaries is broken into eleven portions, one of which occupies the end of the cell. Hab. New Ireland. Obs. Allied to E. Jessica from the Fiji Islands, and more remotely to E. eupator, Hew., from Celebes. From the former it differs in having the markings on the upper surface bluish white instead of vellow, and the spot on the upper wing is not broken into two as shown in Mr. Butler's figure (Lep. Ex. pl. 8. fig. 3). PIERIS MADETES. 3 . Exp. 3*5. Above uniform orange, apex and costa of primaries black. Primaries beneath black, a large spot at the end of the cell and seven large elongated submarginal spots yellow; a pale yellowish patch spreads from the inner margin over the median branches to just within the cell; secondaries orange, base and outer margin black, the latter including a row of six large yellow spots ; a large red spot between the costal and subcostal nervures near their origin. Q Exp. 3'8. Above, primaries black, a large yellowish spot at |