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Show 276 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5, 9. EUPLCEA ELEUTHO. Danais eleutho, Quoy & Gaimard in Freycinet's Voy. pi. 83. fig. 2 (1815). 1 Euploea transfixa, Montrouzier, Ann. Sc. Phys. Nat. Lyon, p. 404 (1856). South Seas (Brenchley). B.M. Montrouzier describes his species as very like E. ccenobita of Cramer (a Neptis) ! 10. EUPLCEA TRISTIS. Euploea tristis, Butler, P. Z. S.p. 284. n.48 (1866). Aneiteum (Cuming). Type, B.M. 11. EUPLOEA GRJEFFIANA. Euploea graffiana, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 70. n. 5, pi. ii. fig. 5 (Jan.-Mar. 1869). Vanua Valava (Herrich-Schaffer). Nearly allied to E. iphianassa. E. rumphii of Felder is alluded to by Herrich-Schaffer as coming also from Vanua Valava; that species, however, is at present unknown to science, not having been described. 12. EUPLOEA IPHIANASSA. Euploea iphianassa, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 287- n. 57, p. 286. fig. 3 (1866). Euploea macleayii, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. ii. p. 320. n.436 (1867?). Euploea hismel, Montrouzier, Ann. Sc. Phys. Nat. Lyon, p. 403 (1856), but not of Boisduval. Fiji (Felder); Aneiteum (Cuming). Type, B.M. This is probably the species referred to by Herrich-Schaffer as E. nemertes, Hiibner, and as from Vanua Valava. 13. EUPLOEA FORSTERI. Euploea forsteri, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. ii. p. 322. n. 440 (? 1867). Fiji (Felder). Allied to E. saundersii, Boisduval*, and more distantly to E. tristis. It may be the E. adyte of Boisduval. 14. EUPLOEA ADYTE. Euploea adyte, Boisduval, Bull. Ent. Soc. France, p. 156. n. 8 (1859). New Caledonia (Boisduval). 15. EUPLOEA SERIATA. Euploea seriata, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 69. n. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1869). Vanua Valava (Herrich-Schaffer). * Bull. Ent. Soc. France, p. clvi. n. 8, obs. (1859) - E. eleusina, Godart (nee Cramer). |