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Show 1874.] OF T H E SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS. 277 16. EUPLOEA INCOMPTA. Euploea incompta, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 69. no. 2 (Jan.-Mar. 1869). Vanua Valava (Herrich-Schaffer). Allied to the preceding species. 17. EUPLOEA IMITATA. Euploea imitata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 359, n. 8(1870) ; Cruise of the Curacoa, p. 466, pi. 47. figs. 1, 2 (1873). South-Sea Islands (Brenchley). Type, B.M. 18. EUPLOEA LORENZO. Euploea lorenzo, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 357. n. 7 (1870) ; Cruise of the Curacoa, p. 466, pi. 47. figs. 3, 4 (1873). South-Sea Islands (Brenchley). Type, B.M. 19. EUPLOEA JESSICA. Euploea Jessica, Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 20, pi. viii. fig. 3 (1870). Fiji (Whitely). Type, Coll. Druce. 20. EUPLOEA TREITSCHKEI. Euploea treitschkei, Boisduval, Voy. de 1'Astrolabe, Lep. p. 98. n. 9 (1832); Doubleday & Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. pi. 11. fig. 2 (1847). New Ireland (Parzudaki) B.M. 21. EUPLOEA SCHMELTZI. Euploea schmeltzi, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 70. n. 4 ; pi. ii. fig. 8 (Jan.-Mar. 1869). Upolu (Brenchley). B.M. 22. EUPLOEA VITELLA. Euploea vitellal (Cramer), Montrouzier, Ann. Sc. Phys. Nat. Lyon, p. 403 (1856). Woodlark Island (Montrouzier). Appears to be allied to E. melina, and certainly is not the Papilio vitellia of Cramer (which is a Dyctis), as evidenced by the description :-"Wings black, paler at the extremity; underside of upper wings marked upon the costa by three points and a bifid streak, all white, and at the sides by a border of points; underside of lower wings spotted with white: upon the wings of the male a band of dull black." This last sentence proves it to be a true Euploea. 23. EUPLCEA LAPEYROUSEI. Euploea lapeyrousei, Boisduval, Voy. de l'Astrolabe, p. 97. n. 7. (1832). Aneiteum (Macgillivray). B.M. |
