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Show 610 MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALVIN [Nov. 16, of them getting loose in transit caused much damage to the others, so that the greater part arrived in a very broken condition. A portion of the same collection, which Mr. Goldie considered duplicates of those he had forwarded to us, was sent to the Rev. Mr. Lawes, of Reading. Mr. Lawes subsequently disposed of them to Mr. Henley G. Smith, by whom they were submitted to us for examination. Amongst these were some species not included in the first set we received. Since this Mr. Goldie has sent us from the same collection a third set; and it is from these several sources that the following descriptions have been compiled. Besides those here described, the collection contains others which are probably still unnamed ; but we prefer to await the arrival of further specimens before we determine the species. MELANITIS AMABILIS, Boisd. Voy, Astr. Lep. p. 140, t. 2 f. 1, 2. 3 • Much smaller than female ; upperside dark brown, win»s crossed beyond the end of the cell by a broad yellow band extending to the anal angle. Mus. nostr. Boisduval describes and figures the female of this species from an individual from New Ireland, from which locality we have also received it. Mr. Goldie now sends it from Port Moresby, together with three specimens of the male, which we believe' has been hitherto unknown; and we therefore give a short description of it. MYCALESIS MELANOPIS, sp. nov. (Plate LVI. fig. 1.) 3 • Exp. 2*3 inches. Black, proximal half (except the costa) of the primaries bright fulvous, darker towards the base; two white-pupillated black ocelli towards the outer margin-one subapical, the other between the first and second median branches; the basal portion of the secondaries paler brown, a white-pupillated ocellus near the centre of the outer margin. Beneath, basal half of both wings drab, outer half darkish brown paler towards the margin, and with two fine submarginal darker lines ; primaries with two large ocelli, secondaries with four, whereof the second and fourth are the smallest. Mus. nostr. Allied to M. mucia, Hew., from Dorey, but with the fulvous colour of the upperside restricted to the basal half of the primaries • the rest of the wings being nearly black with a brownish tinge \ beneath, the ocelli, though similarly placed, are smaller. LAMPROLENIS, gen. nov. Palpi erect, densely covered with short stiff scales directed outwards terminal joint short, erect. Primaries pointed, outer margin curved inwards, apex slightly falcate ; bases of the costal, median, and submedian nervures swollen ; cell moderately long, two long snb-disco eh'T C h e K S e™t t e d b e f ° r e the e » ^ third branch short flower discocellular bent to an acute angle, emitting a short recurrent |