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Show 204 MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. [Apr. 17, From 1870 to 1877 numerous collections, from various eastern countries, containing new species of Danainae were received at the British Museum. These were described by Mr. Butler as follows:- Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 357, 1870. New species of Euploea and Danais from the South-Sea Islands. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 2. Species from Australia of a n. g. Calliploea. Ditto, 1876, p. 240. Species from N e w Guinea. P.Z.S. 1876, p. 765. Species of Euploea and Calliploea from New Guinea. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 466. The same. P.Z.S. 1877, p. 810. Species of Salpinx from Formosa. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. 1877, p. 348. Euplcea from Lifu, Loyalty Islands. In 1871 Mr. Kirby issued his ' Syn. Catal. of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' wherein the Danainae are all arranged under the genera Hestia, Ideopsis, Danais, Euploea, and Hamadryas, which are followed by the genera of Danaoid Heliconinae. Hoppfer (Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1874) described some new species of Danainae from Celebes. Mr. Druce, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873 & 1874, described some Siamese and Bornean species. Mr. Salvin and Mr. Godman also received several very interesting collections, contributing descriptions of the Danainae as follows :- P. Z. S. 1877, p. 140. New Euplceas from Duke-of-York Island. P.Z.S. 1878, pp. 643, 733. Danais and Euplcea from New Guinea, N e w Ireland, and New Britain. P.Z. S. 1879, p. 155. The same. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 183. A new Danais from E. Africa. Kirscb, in Mitth. Mus. Dresden, i. (1877), contributes descriptions and figures of several new species from Papua. In 1878 a memoir on the " Butterflies hitherto referred to the genus Euploea" was published in the Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool.vol. xiv. pp. 290-303, by Mr. Butler. In this paper the species are arranged under seven genera, three of which are new, the peculiar "sexual mark," or scent-producing organ of the male insect, being taken, for the first time, as the character for their separation. In the 'Biologia Centrali-Americana' (1879) Messrs. Salvin and Godman enumerate and describe the species of Danainae occurring in that region. In part 1 of m y ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' published in 1880, are described and figured the species inhabiting that island. In this work these species are arranged under ten genera, seven of which are new, the " sexual mark " being used as the primary character for the genera. In 1882 (Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. x. p. 36) Mr. Butler contributes additional descriptions of twelve new species of Danainae from Duke-of-York Island and N e w Britain. In 1882 Mr. Distant published part 1 of his ' Rhopalocera Malayana,' wherein are fully described and figured all the species |
