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way we came after leaving Booboonie on (he Aroa. I shall probably go that way 

 myself on the return, as I don't want to jeopardise this collection by hostile natives. 

 I shall not stop more than six weeks here. I have enough of it. This incessant 

 rain is very disheartening. It's not too bad when one has plenty of work, but that 

 is impossible when it is raining so much. There is no doubt a collector earns all he 

 makes. This killing business will make the remainder of my boys very chary of 

 going far from camp. 



" January Tth.— I have been unable to get a native to bring this letter down. 

 As I got further news that all my boys whom I had sent down to the coast, as 

 well as the runaways, had been killed, I had the camp ])acked up ready to start. 

 To my surprise, shortly before sundown the boys reported to be killed tnrued 

 up, bringing my mail and a little flour and sugar. 



" I have got another new ' Owl-Butterfly '* and several male specimens of the 

 rare Troidcs. I am too high iov ijoliuth and meridionals, except in the bottom of 

 the valley below us, where one can get most of the coast things. But I do not work 

 there on the meagre chance of getting these rarities. 



" I shall leave here in February rid the Aroa. We have to cross the Aroa in 

 two places ; it means a big swim, the river being very rapid in flood." 



The collection has arrived at Tring in very good order. Besides the male of 

 Troiden chimaera, the two fine new Morjiliopsis, the splendid Lycaenids and day- 

 flying moths, the most noteworthy Lepidoptera obtained are some new genera of 

 Sati/rinae allied to Ihjpocijsta and a new genus of Saturniidae allied to the Indo- 

 Japanese genus Rhodia. One of these Satijrinac is a mimic of Mi/i(es websteri and 

 some Pierids. The peculiar Fhirdana weiskei Rothsch. (19U1) is apparently not 

 rare at that high altitude : also Acntea mei/eri Kirsch (1877) was met with in some 

 numbers. The Ih'lias discovered by Weiske and Meek on the Aroa are all 

 represented in the collection, mostly in fine series, there being also one conspicuous 

 new Delicitf, and another new Pierid for which we have to propose a new genus. 

 There are only a few species of Eiqiloca and Teiiaris,^ while the Lycaenids are well 

 represented. We describe only some of the novelties iu the jiresent j'aper, as lack 

 of time prevents us from studying all the species collected. 



The specimens are all from the Angabunga River, a southern aflJneut of the 

 .St. Joseph River, (JoOO ft. and upwards, November 1904 to February 1905. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 



1. Morphopsis ula spec nov. 



Sexes similar. 



c?. Body mummy-brown above, greyish tawny-olive beneath ; palpus with two 

 pale lateral lines, one beneath and the other above. 



Wings, ujiperside, jiale chestnut. Forewing : distal margin scalloped, 



hinder margin strongly rounded-dilated ; a broad band from two-thirds of costal 

 margin to distal margin, reaching the latter between M' and (SM'), creamy, washed 

 with ochraceous behind, proximally incised or sinuate on or just behind the veins, 

 the disc brnwu between apex of cell and creamy band ; a band of four large black 

 spots from SC to R^ not separated, the first spot indistinct, the second and third 

 elongate, the fourth round, the last three centred with bluish white ; three brown 



* A second new .Vnrjiliojisis. 



■j- On the lower Aroa Uiver llr. Meek found a series o£ Tciuiru hutlcri Oljcrth. (187!)), 



