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Show 272 MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. [May 1, 8. ANDASENA ELEUTHO. Banais eleutho, Quoy and Gaimard, Freycinet's Voy. p. 554, pl. 83. fig. 2 (1815); Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 815; Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Ent.p. 100. Euplcea eleutho, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 299. Hab. Isle of Guam, Ladrone Islands ; Samoa and Ellice Islands (B.M.). DERAGENA, n. g. From typical Andasena this differs in the fore wing being somewhat shorter and more convex at the apex, the sericeous brand only half the length, and the exterior margin more even : hind wing also with an even exterior margin. Type B. proserpina. 1. DERAGENA CHILDRENI, n. sp. Euplcea grayi, Boisduval, MS. Upperside dark chocolate-brown, palest externally : fore wing with a submarginal apical series of very minute white dentate spots ; sericeous streak five twelfths of an inch in length : hind wing with a submarginal upper series of very small white spots, and a smaller series of very indistinct marginal spots. Underside-fore wing with a more distinct submarginal row of dentate white spots and three minute bluish-white discal spots : hind wing with a submarginal and marginal upper series of distinct white spots, and a curved discal series of smaller bluish-white spots, one being within the cell. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. Java. In. coll. Mons. C Oberthur. 2. DERAGENA PROSERPINA. Euplcea proserpina, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc 1866, p. 300, o* ; Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 300. Euplcea herrichii, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 344, pl. 39. figs. 3, 4 (1867). Hab. Fiji Islands (Ovalau, Vanua Levu). 3. DERAGENA SCHMELTZII. Euplcea schmeltzii, Her.-Schaffer, Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 70, pL 2. f.8,2; Exot. Schmett. ii. f. 110 (1869) ; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 300. Hab. Samoa, Upolu, Lifu. 4. DERAGENA WHITMEI. Euplcea whitmei, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 349, 2 (1877). Hab. Royalty Islands (Lifu). 5. DERAGENA BOISDUVALII. Euplcea boisduvalii, Lucas, Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 321. Hab. Australia. |