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Show 570 MR. W. S. ATKINSON ON A NEW BUTTERFLY. [June 1 7, most tinged with red on the basal portion of the inner web, forming no distinct spot. Bill and cere blackish, at the base passing into hornish grey. Feet dark plumbeous ; nails black ; iris yellow, with an outer circle of red. Whole length 14^, wing 7*5, tail 4*4 in. Hab. America; certain locality unknown. W h e n visiting the magnificent Zoological Gardens at Berlin, the Secretary of the Society called m y attention to this Parrot, which he could not find in m y monograph, and which he considered to be new. A short time afterwards the specimen died, and by the kindness of Dr. Bodinus was forwarded to me. After a careful comparison, I have no doubt of the validity of this new species. Chr. bodini, which I take liberty to name after m y friend Dr. Bodinus, the celebrated restorer and director of the Zoological Gardens at Berlin, comes, in respect of its red rump, nearest to G.festiva, L., from which species it differs greatly in having the front and sinciput red, in the lilac-blue edgings of the feathers on the cheeks and chin, in the dark tips on the nape and hind neck, and in the want of blue on the tectrices of the primaries and spurious wing. The specimen described above proved upon dissection to be a female. I beg leave to take this opportunity of stating that, in m y opinion, Conurus glaucifrons, shortly described by Dr. Leybold (" Beschrei-bungen einiger Thiere und Pflanzen aus den Anden Chile's und der Argentinischen Provinzen," in 'Leopoldina' &c. Heft viii. No. 7, Marz 1873, p. 52), from the Argentine Republic, is nothing else than Conurus acuticaudatus, Vieill. (Finsch, Papag. i. p. 450), described already by Professor Burmeister as new, under the name Conurus fugax (Journ. f. Ornith. 1860, p. 243). 4. Description of a n e w Genus and Species of Papilionidce from the South-eastern Himalayas. By W . S. A T K I N S O N , M.A., F.L.S., &c. [Received May 25, 1873.] (Plate L.) BHUTANITIS, n. g. Head of medium size, hairy. Labial palpi very hairy, long, slender, obliquely porrect, extending far beyond the eyes. Antennae short, slender, with an elongated curved club. Thorax rather slight. Anterior wings elongate elliptical; first subcostal nervule originating at nearly three fourths the length of the cell, the second about halfway between the origin of the first and the end of the cell, the third considerably beyond the cell, and the fourth somewhat nearer to the origin of the third; upper discocellular nervule very short, middle discocellular longer than the upper and lower together, basi-median nervule wanting. Posterior |