156 Mr. W. F. Kirby on Lepidoptera 
XVII.—On the Collection of Lepidoptera formed by Basil 
Thomson, Esq., in the Louisiade Archipelago. By W. F. 
Kirsy, F.E.S., Assistant in Zoological Department, 
British Museum (Natural History). 
THE collection of Lepidoptera entrusted to me for examina- 
tion includes forty-one specimens, belonging to twenty-one 
species, of which two only are moths. Among the butter- 
flies I found eight species which appear to be new and 
which are described below. So far as can be seen from so 
small a selection, the affinities of the species are mainly 
Papuan, especially with those previously received from 
Port Moresby. Several of the species also exhibit strong 
Moluccan and Australian affinities, while others show a rela- 
tionship to the insects of Kei, Aru, New Georgia, and other 
islands lying east or west of the Louisiades. ‘There are not 
more than one or two species, such as Hurema hecabe and 
Leptosoma integrum, which exhibit any special relationship 
to the Indo-Malayan fauna. Perhaps the most interesting 
of the novelties obtained by Mr. Thomson are the species of 
Tenarts, belonging to a genus of butterflies which obtains 
its maximum of development in the Papuan Islands. That 
so large a proportion of novelties as eight conspicuous butter- 
flies out of a total of nineteen were collected during a flying 
visit to one or two islands sufficiently indicates the richness 
of the fauna of the Louisiades and the desirability of its being 
more systematically investigated. 
RHOPALOCERA. 
Nymphalide. 
DANAINz. 
LIMNAINA. 
Genus ASTHIPA. 
Asthipa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p, 246. 
1. Asthipa Schenkit. 
Danais Schenkii, Koch, Indo-Austr. Lep.-Fauna, p. 107 (1865). 
Danais gloriola, 2 var., Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1866, p. 57. 
“ Rossel Island, Oct. 18, 1888.” <A pair, male and fe- 
male. 
This is a larger and paler species than A. gloriola, Butl. 
