390 Mr. A. G. Butler's descriptions of 



blue ; the black basal patch of the secondaries is larofer, sometimes 

 of three times the width. Expanse of wings, 39 — 43 mm. 



Guadalcanar, Soloraon Islands {Woodford) . 



Scaptesyle ccendescens, n. s. (PL XII., fig. 3). 

 Primaries with the basal fourth prussian-blue, followed by a 

 tolerably broad band of clear bright chrome-yellow ; the anterior 

 l^art of this band is narrowed, its inner edge being vei'y oblique ; 

 outer half of primaries occupied by a large almost semicircular 

 patch of bright chestnut-red with black borders ; secondaries 

 dark sepia-brown, with a broad almost central cuneiform band of 

 bright chrome-yellow from costa almost to anal angle ; thorax 

 l^russian-blue ; abdomen sepia-brown ; wings below nearly as 

 above ; body below dark brown ; anal segment dotted and tipped 

 with pure white ; legs paler brown ; anterior tibiae and tarsi for 

 the most part white m front; knees of posterior legs white. 

 Expanse of wings, 29 mm. 



Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands {Woodford). 



CERATOCAMPID^. 

 Brahmcea ocelligera, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 4), 

 Nearest to B. swanzii ; smaller, the primaries rather less pro- 

 duced, the colom'ing richer, no distinct whitish transverse line 

 towards the base ; the black lines across the basal third forming 

 much less acute angles; the large triangular costal patch red- 

 brown instead of black, and marked with three unequal ovoid pale- 

 bordered black spots ; its posterior angle is also extended down- 

 wards so as almost to unite with the internal patch, which is black, 

 opaque, and subquadrate, the outer lunitation of the belt thus 

 formed is of less than half the width of the white post-median 

 band m B. swanzii, but the intervals between the three succeeding 

 lines are white ; the black-centred apical ocellus is smaller ; the 

 second and third spots are oval, distinctly pale buff internally and 

 shaded with olivaceous, externally dull pink bordered with white ; 

 the fom'th to sixth spots are wider than in B. swanzii and more 

 ocelloid, being black with pale buff internal and olivaceous external 

 borders ; the two last submarginal s^jots are also more ocelloid, 

 broader, with their centres deep olivaceous ; the fringe of apical 

 third of primaries pale buff instead of olivaceous, and the remainder 

 of the fringe darker than in B. swanzii: in the secondaries the 

 basal area is blacker, more distinctly angular, not denticulated 

 externally, and bounded by a considerably narrower white band ; 

 four instead of two only of the succeeding intervals between the 



