On Rhopaloccray/-o;» Japan an<l Shanghai. 91 



free, ;j:ivin<j:: evidence of its toughness and definite walling. 

 It contained a single germinal spot. 



The New-Zealand Pcn'patus is much smaller tlian the Cape 

 species ; and yet the embryos are much larger. In all the 

 specimens examined hy me the embryos were fiir fewer in 

 number than ordinarily m P. rapensis ] yet Caj)tain Ilutton 

 in one instance found 2(3 embryos in one female. The em- 

 bryos, as observed by Captain Ilutton, occur in successive 

 stages of development in the oviduct, and arc not all nearly 

 equally mature as in P. capensis. The cmbi^'os have the 

 contents of the developing intestine coloured red ni P. capensis \ 

 in P. novfv-zcalanJiiv the contents are white. The embryos 

 appear in the New-Zealand species not to go through the 

 preliminary worm-like stage, with the body spirally coiled 

 {Phil. Trans. Z.c.pl. Ixxv. fig. 1), which is present in P.capcnsis] 

 they seem to have lost this earlier stage, and to skip at once 

 to the further stage of P. capensis (Phil. Trans. I. c. pi. Ixxv. 

 fig. 4), tlie first indication of form being the a])pcaranee of a 

 hilum near one pole of the ovoid egg, which hilum marks the 

 spot where the tail and head meet in the doubled-up condition 

 of the embryo. 



VII. — On Rhopalocera from Jajtan and Shanghai, with 

 Desc7-ij)(ions of new Species. By Arthur G, Butler, 

 F.L.S. &c. 



Mr. Montague Fenton (of Tosengi, Takanawa, Tokei, Japan) 

 has recently forwarded to the liritish i\Iuseum a small box of 

 Diurnal Lcpidoptera, comprising the following species. 



Ccenonympha annulifer, n. sp. 



Nearly allied to G. geticus, but larger, longer in the wing, 

 much darker; on the underside with the plumbagineous streak, 

 which bounds the ocelli of secondaries internally, straight on 

 its inner edge instead of undulated. Expanse of wungs ($ 1 

 inch 7 lines, ? 1 inch 10 lines. 



About 370 miles from Tokei (Yedo). 



'i'his species is ])robably the same as that noted by the Rev. 

 11. p. Murray as Ca'nongnipha cedipus, Fabrioius. 



Neope Fentoni, n. sp. 



iMsiommata epimenidex $ ,M«$n<5tri«5s, Reisen und Forschunpcn im Amur- 

 Lando, ii. 1, Lopid. tab. iii. fij?. 9 (18.')!)). 



In the heart of the mountains, about 37<> miles from Tokei. 



