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Show 302 MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. [May I, This species, from the type specimen of which the above description is taken, is very like Calliplcea mazares and C. ledereri; but the latter differs in the markings of the fore wing all being smaller, and in the absence of the lower elongated spot: the hind wing of the two latter species also has no discoidal patch. 8. SALPINX OCULATA, n. sp. Male. Allied to S. nemertes; smaller in size ; colour deeper brown and of a uniform tint. Fore wing with a small bluish-white costal spot above end of the cell, an upper submarginal curved row of six small spots, of which the upper third spot is slightly the largest; a small speckled spot between middle and lower median veins, and a large spot between median and submedian, the latter spot with a grey centre. Hind wing with a well-defined ochreous discoidal patch, and three very small upper submarginal bluish-white spots. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. Philippines (Mindanao). In coll. British Museum. 9. SALPINX BOURUANA, n. sp. Female. Upperside very dark purplish violet-brown: fore wing with seven submarginal distinct bluish-white spots, the three upper largest and oval, the lower very small and decreasing in size ; a small blue spot on costa above end of the cell, and a distinct blue spot between median and submedian veins: hind wing with a submarginal upper curved series of five decreasing bluish-white spots, the two lowest very small; a small spot at lower end of the cell. Underside brighter purplish violet-brown : fore wing with a complete marginal row of small bluish-white spots placed in proximate pairs between the veins; the submarginal row and the costal and lower discal spot larger and more prominent than on upperside ; four small short narrow spots on the disk beyond the cell: hind wing with a complete marginal row of very small bluish-white spots, and a sub-marginal curved row of ten larger spots ; a small blue spot between the lower subcostal and radial. Expanse 3f inches. Hab. Bouru. In coll. Messrs. Godman and Salvin. Distinguished from Amboina female of S. pasithea by its very much darker colour on the upper- and underside, the more prominent white submarginal spots, and the distinct blue costal spot and lower discal spot of the upperside. 10. SALPINX NEMERTES. Limnas mutabilis nemertes, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. f . 3, 4, cf (1806). Salpinx nemertes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 17 (1806). Euplcea aglidice, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 96, 9 (1835). Euplcea eunice, Butler, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 286, f. 2, 2 . Hab. Amboina ; Ceram. In coll. British Museum. |