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Show 766 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW-GUINEA BUTTERFLIES. [NOV. 21, RHOPALOCERA. NYMPHALID^E. EUPLCEA GUERINII, Felder. I merely record this butterfly as being common in the collection, and only previously known to occur at Aru; until now I had not seen the species. EUPLCEA DOLOSA, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 1.) Allied to the preceding, smaller, no white spots. Wings above dark pitchy brown, paler on the external area and costal area of secondaries ; primaries with six to seven lilac subapical spots in a curved series, the third in the male (which is fourth in the female) largest and sagittate ; male with an elongate interno-median sericeous streak; female with the subapical spots larger and paler than in the male. Wings below bronzy olive-brown ; central area of primaries blackish, internal area greyish, with a sericeous streak in the male and a white streak in the female; a minute bluish dot in the cell and three beyond it (sometimes wanting) : secondaries with a dot in the cell, and sometimes one beyond it pale bluish ; base of wings and pectus black, white-spotted. Expanse of wings, o* 3 inches 1 line, $ 2 inches 9 lines. CALLIPLCEA JAMESI, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 2.) Allied to C. pumila, but the male darker than C. trimenii or C. seriata. o*. Wings above deep shining red-brown, the external half of primaries and the apical border of secondaries almost black, with faint purplish reflections ; primaries with two subapical contiguous white spots, and below them a decreasing submarginal series of four white spots, all bordered with lavender; secondaries with costal area shining-silver- grey, the cell and the area immediately above it occupied by a large creamy patch; a whitish subapical dot. Primaries below slightly paler ; a large creamy internal patch reaching the median nervure ; four pure white subapical spots in an oblique series, the two upper ones contiguous and largest; a submarginal series of minute white points : secondaries red-brown, apical area slightly darker ; two subapical and four to five submarginal white points; base and pectus black, white-spotted. Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 2 . Paler and more uniformly coloured than the male, white spots much larger, bordered with lilac, subapical spot of primaries trifid, five submarginal spots ; three subapical white dots in secondaries: wings below paler, all the spots of the upper surface, and a complete submarginal series of spots white : expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. A well-marked species. CALLIPLCEA INFANTILIS, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 3.) o*, Allied to the preceding species, considerably smaller, darker, with fewer spots. |
