352 Mr. A. G. Butler 07i Lepidoptera from Lifu. 



body below smoky brown, palpi white at the sides and black 

 below. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 



? . Paler than the male, the primaries with a tapering dull 

 ochraceous streak from the costa just beyond the end of the 

 cell to near the second median branch, and six white dots, 

 from the costal vein to the second median interspace, parallel 

 to the outer margin ; an indistinct black spot above the sub- 

 anal one ; the submarginal streak replaced by an ill-defined 

 dusky patch ; the apical area smoky brown, with the outer 

 border darker : secondaries with the broad discal belt bright 

 ochreous, and the outer border uniformly dark chocolate-brown; 

 secondaries altogether paler, with the markings more strongly 

 defined than in the male ; otherwise similar. Expanse of 

 wings 2 inches 10 lines. 



This can, I think, scarcely be a variation of the preceding 

 species ; the absence of the well-marked oblique belt in the 

 male and the restricted and differently formed belt in the 

 female are very characteristic ; the borders of the secondaries 

 in the two sexes are also very unlike those of D. elsina. 



Cyrestis, Boisduval. 

 14, Cyrestis Whttmet, n. sp. 



Pure white, ornamented with colours and markings nearly 

 as in C. achates, but intermediate in character between that 

 species and C, nivea : it diflfers from C. achates as follows : — 



The blackish lines across the basal area more slender and 

 straighter ; the bluish-centred belt across the cell of prima- 

 ries less oblique and with its sides parallel, the lines closing 

 the cell (one of which represents the lower discocellular) also 

 more parallel ; the apical portion of the outer border broader, 

 with the two ocelli upon it less distinctly made out and with 

 white pupils ; the outer border darker and rather narrower ; 

 the bluish-centred stripe which crosses the lower part of the 

 disk of primaries and the disk of secondaries uniform with the 

 white stripe which follows it, so as to do away with the 

 appearance of incipient ocelli, which at once strikes the eye in 

 C. achates] the subanal ochreous patch in primaries smaller; 

 the secondaries distinctly shorter, the anal angle being less 

 produced ; the caudal appendage more slender ; the streak 

 from the apex to the anal angle dark brown, but slightly 

 washed with ochraceous below the third median branch ; only 

 a single slender submarginal black line from the apex to the 

 base of the tail, but from there to the second median branch 

 two regular thick black stripes. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 1 line. 



