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III. Notes on the species of the lepidopterous genus 

 Euchromia, with descriptions of new species in the 

 collection of the British Museum. By ABTHUB G. 

 BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Bead November 2nd, 1887.J 



PLATE IV. 



THE genus Euchromia contains some of the most bril- 

 liantly coloured of all the tropical Burnet-moths ; the 

 greater part of the species are well represented in the 

 National Collection, and form as beautiful a group, and 

 as worthy of public attention, as the humming-birds 

 in the class of Aves. 



My attention has been at this time specially called to 

 the genus by the receipt of a paper by Herr Kober of 

 Dresden, in which four supposed new forms are described, 

 only one of which I regret to say will be able to stand. 



In my examination of the species I have been 

 assisted by my colleague, Mr. W. F. Kirby, who has not 

 only sent me for my use his MS. Catalogue of the 

 genus, but has re-examined with me all species in the 

 collection the verification of which was in any way 

 open to doubt. 



About twenty-five species have been described ; I say 

 " about," because two forms, E. arnica and E.ganymede, 

 are only doubtfully distinct from E. irius and E. creusa 

 respectively. The following is a list of the species in 

 the Museum collection. 



1. Euchromia gemmata, Butler. (PL IV., fig. 1). 



One fine example only of this very distinct species, 

 obtained by Mr. Woodford in the Solomon Islands. 



2. Euchromia rubricollis, Walker. 



Aneiteum and Mallicollo. We have a series of this 

 species collected by Mr Gervase Matthew, and nine 

 examples have been reserved to illustrate the species. 



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