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Show 736 DR. T. S. COBBOLD ON NEW OR RARE ENTOZOA. [Nov. 18, 3. Descriptions of two new Species of Butterflies from the Andaman Islands. By "W. S. ATKINSON, M.A., F.L.S., &c. [Received September 29, 1873.] (Plate LXIII.) 1. P A P I L I O M A Y O , n. sp. (Plate LXIII. fig. 1.) Black, exterior fringes of the wings white between the extremities of the nervures. The hind wings dentate, crossed above by a broad band of bright azure-blue, divided by the black nervures ; below the azure band reduced to a series of blue lunules, tinged with red, terminating at the anal angle in a blind eye-like spot surmounted by a red lunule ; beneath this at some distance another red lunule placed convexly to the spot. The base of wing marked with some red blotches. Expanse of wings 5 to 5 | inches. Hab. Andaman Islands. Named in memory of the late Earl of Mayo, Viceroy of India, who was assassinated at Port Blair in the Andamans on the 8th of February, 1872. 2. EUPLOSA ANDAMANENSIS, n. sp. (Plate LXIII. fig. 2.) Pale fuliginous with white spots. Fore wing with a white spot between the extremity of the cell and the costa ; another within the cell near its extremity ; two others below the cell, one between the first and second, the other between the second and third median nervules; beyond these a curved series of nine white spots from the anterior margin to below the exterior angle, of which the three last are the largest; followed by a submarginal series of smaller elongated spots, extending from the first discoidal nervule to the exterior angle. The interior margin much rounded in the male, in which sex there is a single vitta of dark adpressed scales between the lowest median nervule and the submedian nervure. In the female the vitta is replaced by a white streak. Hind wing with two somewhat irregular series of elongated white spots, corresponding to the two series in the fore wing. Expanse of wings 3g to 3f inches. Hab. Andaman Islands. 4. Notes on Entozoa.-Part I. By T. SPENCER COBBOLD, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor in the Royal Veterinary College. |Read October 10, 1873.] (Plate LXIV.) The present communication is the first of a series of papers in which I propose to bring together many scattered observations made from time to time in the intervals of more sustained scientific work. Of necessity these notes will exhibit an incomplete and fragmentary |