Mr. A. G. Butler on Lejndoptera from Lifu. 353 



This is a well-marked species, of the size and with the 

 aspect of C. nivea, but in its ornamentation more nearly 

 asrreeino; with C. achates. 



Atella, Doubledaj. 

 15. Atella egistina, Q'^oy and Gaimard (No. 10). 



This species appears to be extremely common at Lifu ; it 

 occurs also at Mare. I was at first disposed to regard it as a 

 variety oi A. Boiodenia (see P. Z. S. 1875, p. 614). 



AcRjEiN^, Bates. 



AcR^A, Fabricius. 



16. Acrcea andromacha^ Fabricius. 



As pointed out by Herr Schmeltz, I was correct in my 

 original notice of this species as an inhabitant of the Islands 

 of the South Pacific ; it does not, however, appear to be 

 common. 



Family Erycinidse. 



LiBYTHBiN^, Bates.* 



LiBYTHEA, Fabricius. 



17. Libythea quadrinotata^ n. sp. 



Primaries dark brov/n, shining and tinted with ochraceous 

 towards the base, with a diftused ochraceous patch on the 

 inner margin ; a spot in the end of the cell, and a large patch 

 (crossed by the second median branch) on the disk, pinky 

 white, edged with ochraceous ; a bifid subcostal white spot 

 beyond the cell, and a subsinuate bifid discal spot towards the 

 apex, white : secondaries with the basal area sordid subochra- 

 ceous ; external area dark brown ; a broad fascia, very wide 

 on the abdominal margin, and gradually narrowing to near 

 the apex, and a subapical spot above its extremity, ochreous: 

 body above brownish olivaceous. Primaries below grey, the 

 cell ochraceous; the four spots as above, but all white, the discal 

 area enclosed by them dark brown: secondaries lilacine greyish, 

 speckled with red-brown and crossed, near the base of the 



• Mr. Sfudder proposes to rogard this as an abnormal group of the 

 Nymphalidce ; but 1 cannot agree with him in this. 



