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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 305 24. SALPINX LABREYI, n. sp. Male. Violet-brown, much paler, and not suffused with blue as in S. viola. Fore wing with a pale purplish violet-brown row of sub-marginal spots, the four upper spots small and round, the two next somewhat oval, the lower geminated; a violet-white spot on costa above end of the cell, followed below by three upper discal large, irregular, oval spots ; a violet-brown streak above submedian. Hind wing with a submarginal row of small purplish-violet decreasing spots. Expanse 4 inches. Hab. Unknown. In coll. Hewitson, British Museum. 25. SALPINX CALLITHOE. Euplcea callithoe, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 93, cf (1832). Macroplcea callithoe, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 292. Hab. New Guinea. In coll. M. Oberthur. 26. SALPINX EUTHOE. Euplcea euthoe, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 316 (1867). Hab. Aru. 27. SALPINX MESOCALA. Euplcea mesocala, Vollenhoven, Tijd. voor Ent. 2nd ser. viii. p. 244, pl. 11. f. 18,22 (1873). Hab. Waigiou. 28. SALPINX ALTHAEA. Euplcea althaea, Semper, Verh. des Vereins natur. Unt. Hamburg, iii. p. 106 (1878). Hab. Mindanao. In coll. G. Semper. 29. SALPINX MEYERI. Euplcea meyeri, Hopffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 29. Hab. Celebes. PADEMMA, n. g. Euplcea (Salpinx, sect. B), Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 59 (1882). Intermediate in form between Salpinx and Isamia ; differing from Salpinx in the fore wing being comparatively narrower, the apex more acute, exterior margin more oblique, and the sericeous brand shorter and broader. From typical Isamia the fore wing differs in its shorter and more quadrate form, and in the shortness of the sericeous brand. Type P. klugii. 1. PADEMMA KLUGI. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1, cf .) Euplcea klugii, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 130, cf $ (1857). |
