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Show 292 MR. F. M O O R E ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. [MAY 1, 10. EUPLCEA UNIBRUNNEA. Euplcea unibrunnea, Salvin and Godman, Proc Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 141, cf ; P. Z. S. 1882, p. 754, $ . Hab. Duke-of-York Island ; New Ireland. 11. EUPLCEA BROWNI. Euplcea brownii, Salvin and Godman, Proc Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 142, pl. 22. f. 1, 2. Hab. Duke-of-York Island. Genus CALLIPLCEA. Calliploea, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 1. Euplcea (Calliplcea), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 73 (1882). Wings small, short, broad. Male with the fore wing somewhat quadrate ; hind margin convex in the middle and thence very oblique to the base ; cell broad ; upper discocellular bent near each end, lower outwardly oblique ; inner spur obsolete : hind wing with a pale oval discoidal glandular patch. Type C. darchia. 1. CALLIPLCEA LEDERERI. Euplcea ledereri, Felder, Wien. ent. Monats. iv. p. 397 (1860); Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 317, pl. 40. f. 5, 6 (1867) ; Distant, Rhopalocera Malayana, p. 26, pl. 2. f. 10. Calliplcea ledereri, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 295. Euplcea inquinata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc 1866, p. 291 & f. 2 (p. 288). Euplcea (Calliplcea) ledereri, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 73 (1882). Hab. Malay peninsula (Province Wellesley, Perak, Malacca) ; Sumatra. 2. CALLIPLCEA MAZARES. Euplcea mazares, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. i. p. 128 (1857). Calliplcea mazares, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 295. Hab. Java. 3. CALLIPLCEA ARISTOTELIS, n. sp. Euplcea aristotelis, Boisd. MS. Allied to G. mazares. Male duller-coloured, with similarly disposed but smaller markings on fore wing. Female duller brown in tint, with paler margins, and not suffused with violet-blue ; fore wing with a curved submarginal series of six minute white spots, all being of equal size ; hind wing with small indistinct upper sub-marginal spots. Expanse 2\ to 2| inches. Hab. Sandakan, N. Borneo (Pryer). In coll. W . L. Distant and C. Oberthur. |