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Show 1874.] OF T H E SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS. 275 3. DANAIS INSOLATA. Danais insolata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 360. n. 2 (1870) ; Cruise of the Curacoa, p. 468, pi. 48. figs. 1, 2 (1873). South-Sea Islands (Brenchley). Type, B.M. 4. DANAIS OBSCURATA, n. sp. Danais melissa, Butler (nee Cramer), Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 360, n. 3 (1870). Euploea hamata 1, Montrouzier (nee M'Leay), Ann. Sc. Phys. Nat. Lyon, p. 404 (1856). d. Closely allied to D. australis, but larger, the spots more distinctly separated, narrower and less green * ; secondaries red-brown, the inner series of submarginal spots terminating before second subcostal branch, the first series only represented by three dots at anal angle; basal two thirds of primaries below with ground-colour bright red-brown, instead of black-brown. Expanse of wings 3 inches 10 lines. Upolu (Brenchley). Type, B.M. Two specimens of this species were taken by Mr. Brenchley; the wings were closed when I originally examined them, which occasioned m y mistake as to the species. 5. DANAIS MELITTULA. Danais melittula, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 70. n. 8 (1869). Upolu (Herrich-Schaffer) ; Upolu (W. Wykeham Perry). B.M. The description of this species is very poor; it would be better described as a small representative of D. hamata, M'Leay (D. australis of Boisduval). 6. DANAIS NEPTUNIA. Danais neptunia, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. ii. p. 349. n. 489, pi. 43. fig. 1 (1867). Fiji (Felder) ; Fiji. B.M. I found one specimen of this well-marked species in the supplementary drawers of the Banksian cabinet. 7. DANAIS ARCHIPPUS. Papilio archippus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 49, n. 151 (1793). <$, South Seas (Brenchley); 6, Tutuila Isl. ; ?, Upolu (W. W. Perry). B.M. Genus EUPLCEA, Fabricius. 8. EUPLOEA OROPE. Euploea orope, Boisduval, Voy, de 1'Astrolabe, Lep. p. 100. n. 12 (1832); Sp.Gen. i. pi. 11. fig. 9 (1836). "Taiti" (Boisd); Timor (Wallace). B.M. * In the figure of B. australis the spots are represented as creamy white; but in all the examples that I have seen they are as green as in D. honor a. |
