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Show 156 MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALVIN ON BUTTERFLIES [Feb. 18, bring before the Society the results of an examination of a second from the same source. Mr. Brown has carefully noted the island on which each specimen was obtained ; so that we are enabled, to a considerable extent, to remedy a defect in our former communication. The whole of the present collection was formed on the large islands of N e w Britain and New Ireland, the majority of the specimens coming from the latter, a large portion of the collection from the former having met with a mishap. As we hope Mr. Brown will continue his explorations in this very promising field, it is perhaps premature to investigate in detail the difference between the butterfly faunas of the two islands. W e may, however, say that there are indications of considerable differences between them. The total number of species sent us by Mr. Brown from these two islands now amounts to 60 ; there still remein several described by Dr. Boisduval from New Ireland which have not yet come to hand. ** DANAIS AUSTRALIS, Godm. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 141. New Ireland. * DANAIS SOBRINA, Salv. et Godm. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 141. New Ireland. 3. DANAIS PLEXIPPUS, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p, 262. New Ireland. Several specimens, agreeing accurately with N.-American examples. On the range of this species see Mr. Distant's paper (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 93), where he uses Cramer's name D. archippus for it. 4. *EUPLO3A UNIBRUNNEA, Salv. et Godm. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 141. New Ireland. Mr. Brown sends us a female specimen which, besides the characteristic sexual differences, is paler than the male and has the spots on the under surface rather larger. 5. *EUPLO3-A BROWNI, Salv. et Godm. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 142. New Britain. A female specimen, which, except as regards the sexual distinctions, resembles the male. 6. EUPLOSA PASITHEA, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 318. New Britain. Several examples of both sexes; they differ slightly from Ceram specimens in having all the spots on the underside smaller, and in having but a single submarginal row at the apex of the primaries. 7. EUPLCEA ERIMAS. (Plate XV. fig. 1.) Euploea erimas, Godm. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 733. New Ireland. 1 An asterisk prefixed to a name denotes that the species was included in our former paper. |