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white band composed of large semiconnected spots as in D. 

 pliilene ; the ground-colour of tlie wings much darker on both 

 surfaces. Expanse of wings 3 inches 1-5 lines. 



Two males. 



2. Danais leucoptera. 



Danais leucoptera, Butler, Ent. Mo, Mag. xi. p. 163 (1874). 



One female. 



Genus EuPLCEA, Fabricius. 



3. Eu]}loea resarta, n. sp. 



Ground-colour of E. Lapeyrousei, blackish piceous, purplish 

 in certain lights ; the borders and the abdominal and anal 

 areas of secondaries lighter, cupreous, greyish towards outer 

 margin ; primaries with a transverse series of eleven discal 

 whitish spots, five of them strigiform, subcostal, the sixth and 

 seventh hastate, subapical, the remainder rounded, well sepa- 

 rated, bifid ; secondaries with an increasing series of twelve, 

 oval, whitish, discal spots, and a less-defined submarginal 

 series of whitish dots : wings below paler than above, espe- 

 cially round the borders ; primaries with four lilacine dots, 

 one in the cell and three beyond it ; discal spots as above, but 

 white ; several submarginal dots in pairs ; secondaries with a 

 spot in the cell and five dots in an angular series beyond it 

 lilacine ; discal and submarginal spots as above, but the latter 

 edged with brown : body black, spotted with white. Expanse 

 of wings 3 inches 7 lines. 



One female. 



A very distinct species, allied to E. Lapeyrousei^ but with 

 the aspect of E. vermiculata. 



4. Euploea Lapeyrousei. 



Euploea Lapeyrousei, Boisduval, Voy. Astr. L^p. p. 97 (1832). 

 Eiqjloea Batesii, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. ii. p. 331 (1867). 



■ Two females. 

 E. Lapeyrousei was not previously in the Museum ; the 

 small species hitherto representing it in the collection proves 

 to be quite distinct; it is of the form and size of E. sepulchralis^ 

 with the coloration of the E.-melina group. It may take the 

 name proposed for it by Dr. Boisduval, E. Paykullei. 



5. Euploea moesta. 

 Euploea moesta, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 284, fig. 3 (1866). 

 Three males. 



The bluish submarginal spots in primaries are more fre- 

 quently absent than present. 



