On Rhopalocera_/rom Japan and Shan ff hat. 91 



free, giving evidence of its toughness and definite walling. 

 It contained a single germinal spot. 



The New-Zealand Peripatus is much smaller than the Cape 

 species ; and yet the embryos are much larger. In all the 

 specimens examined by me the embryos were far fewer in 

 number than ordinarily in P. capensis ; yet Captain Hutton 

 in one instance found 26 embryos in one female. The em- 

 bryos, as observed by Captain Hutton, occur in successive 

 stages of development in the oviduct, and are not all nearly 

 equally mature as in P. capensis. The embryos have the 

 contents of the developing intestine coloured red in P. capensis ; 

 in P. novce-zealaiidice the contents are white. The embryos 

 appear in the New-Zealand species not to go through the 

 preliminary worm-like stage, with the body spirally coiled 

 (Phil. Trans. Z.c.pl. Ixxv. fig. l),whicliispresentinP.ca/>e«si5; 

 they seem to have lost this earlier stage, and to skip at once 

 to the further stage of P. cajyensis (Phil. Trans. I. c. pi. Ixxv. 

 fig. 4), the first indication of form being the appearance of a 

 liilum near one pole of the ovoid ^g%^ which liilum marks the 

 spot where the tail and head meet in the doubled-up condition 

 of the embryo. 



VII. — On Rhopalocera from Japan and Shanghai^ with 

 Descriptions of neio Species. By Arthur G. Butler, 

 F.L.S. &c. 



Mr. Montague Fenton (of Tosengi, Takanawa, Tokei, Japan) 

 has recently forwarded to the British Museum a small box of 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising the following species. 



Coenonympha annulifer^ n. sp. 



Nearly allied to C geticus, but larger, longer in the wing, 

 much darker; on the underside with the plumbagineous streak, 

 which bounds the ocelli of secondaries internally, straight on 

 its inner edge instead of undulated. Expant^e of wings ^ 1 

 inch 7 lines, ? 1 inch 10 lines. 



About 370 miles from Tokei (Yedo). 



This species is probably the same as that noted by the Rev. 

 R. P. Murray as Coenonympha cedipus^ Fabricius. 



Neope Fentoni, n. sp. 



•■s 5 ,M(5netrit5s, Reisen und 

 . tab. iii. fig. 9 (1850). 



In the heart of the mountains, about 370 miles from Tokei. 



Lusiommata ejmnenicks 2 ,M(5netrit5s, Reisen und Forscliungen im Amur- 

 Lande, ii. 1, Lepid. tab. iii. fig. 9 (1850). 



