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Fiff. 6. Didi/mograpsus Jlacctdm, Ilall, natural size; From the Upper 



Llaudeilo rocks of Dobbs's Liim, near Moffat. 

 6 a. Base of another specimen of the same, enlarged, showing the 



three sluall spines opposite to the radicle. 

 6 b. Fragment of the same, enlarged, to show the cellules. 



6 c. Germs of D.Jlaccidii-'(, uat. size. 



Fu/. 7. Small specimen of Didymoyrapsus Murchisoni, Beck, nat. size. 

 From the Upper Llandeilo rocks of Abereiddy Bay, in Pem- 

 brokeshire. 



7 a. Large specimen of D. Murchisoni, from the same locality, nat. 



size. 

 7 h. Base of another small specimen of D. Murchisoni, enlarged. 

 The base is considerably more obtuse and rounded in this spe- 

 cimen than in fi?. 7. 



XXXVII. — List of Species in a small Collection of Butterjiies 

 from the South Seas. By ARTHUR Gardiner Butler, 

 F.L.S. &c. 



A COLLECTION of Diurnal Lepidoptera has recently been sent 

 to the British Museum by Julius Brenchley, Esq., which, 

 though small, contains several interesting novelties. The 

 species are all referable to two of the five Rhopalocerous fami- 

 lies, and the majority of them to the subfamily Danainte. 



Family Nymphalidse, (Westwood) Bates. 



Subfamily Danainje^ Bates. 



Genus EurucEA, Fabricius. 



1. E\ipl€ea anthracina. 

 Euploea anthracina, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 280. n. 39, p. 281. fig. I (1866). 

 ^ )ne example. South-Sea Islands. 



2. Euploea Brenchleyi^ sp. nov. 



S . Alse supra saturate fuscai, area apicali alba ; margine late fusco ; 

 stria infra ramum primum medianum sericea : posticse fuscae, area 

 externo-anali pallidiore ; costa sericea dilutiore. 



Alee subtus pallidiores, area externa alba: anticse punctis tribus 

 mediis violaceis quorum maximo discoidali et puncto discali albo : 

 postica? costa pallide fusca ; macula discoidali serieque puuctorum 

 quinque discalium in serie augulata violascentium ; punctis con- 

 suetis basalibus albis : corpus nigrum, albo punctatum. 



5 differt supra area anticarum alba duplo latiore et area externa 

 posticarum late alba ; subtus stria anticis interna alba. 



Exp. alar. unc. 3, lin. 2. 



Five specimens (4 J", 1 ? )• South-Sea Islands. 

 Resembles anotlier species in the same collection, which has 

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