On new Butterflies from the Solomon Islands. 209 



vasava and A. potiphera, is of the size, shape, and has the 

 front-wing hyaline spots of the latter, but the secondaries are 

 without hyaline spots, and the ground-colour is of a pale 

 cupreous or sericeous clay-colour ; the spots of the primaries 

 are black-edged and partly connected by three or four dusky, 

 lunulated, macular stripes, which, however, are better defined 

 on the secondaries ; the body is rather dusky in colouring ; 

 below the wings are paler, the basal area of primaries and 

 abdominal border of secondaries being whitish and the stripes 

 on the latter wings represented by well-defined blackish spots 

 or dashes. Expanse of wings 35 millim. 



Futch Khan's bungalow, Kooteer, Chittar Pahar, probably 

 3000 feet, 24th April, 1886. 



Labelled " Hesperiuj sp., new." As specimens from the 

 Neilgherries stand in Mr. Moore's collection labelled "^. 

 Taylori^ De N,," I presume that the species has been 

 described ; but after looking through the 'Zoological Records' 

 for the last five or six years and the ' Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society ' for 1886 I have failed to find it ; perhaps it has been 

 referred to another genus, and therefore I have overlooked it, 

 or possibly it is a MS. name. 



Three more or less worn examples were sent home by Major 

 Yerbury, and in the series brought home were two others 

 from the same locality and two taken at Noor Poor Shahan, 

 near Rawul Pindee, on the 10th April. 



107. Plesioneura leucocera. 



Hesperia leiicocei-a, Kollar, in Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 454, pi. xviii. 



figs. 3, 4 (1848). 



Kala Pani, 29th August, 1886. 



An account of the moths of these collections will be given 

 in a subsequent paper. 



XXVIT. — New S^yectes of Butterflies collected ly Mr. G. M. 

 Woodford in the Solomon Islands. By F. D. GODMAN and 

 O. Salvin. 



Since the descriptions published in the last number of the 

 'Annals' (antea, pp. 90-101) were prepared Mr. Woodford 

 has returned to England, bringing with him another large 

 collection of butterflies chiefly collected on the island of 



