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almost unexplored around our coasts. That much more 

 extended investigation should take place is of no small geo- 

 graphical as well as biological importance. In our knowledge 

 of the contour of Europe beneath the sea we are far in arrear. 

 The Americans have beaten us out and out. Few things 

 attracted more attention at the Fisheries Exhibition than the 

 admirable model of the North-east American ocean bottom, 

 showing the descent of that continent into the abyss. Is it 

 too much to hope that such further explorations may be con- 

 ducted by our government as shall enable a similar model of 

 our Marine Area to be placed at no distant period in the 

 British Museum ? 



April 8, 1890. 



XLVI. — New Species of Indian Butterflies. 

 By Colonel C. Swinhoe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



Sattmnje. 

 1. Melanitis ampa, n. sp. 



<$ $ . Upperside uniform pale brown ; fore wing with two 

 pale blackish-brown rounded spots, the lower the larger, 

 placed midway between the end of the cell and the outer mar- 

 gin, one on either side of the third median nervule, the lower 

 spot indistinctly centred with white. 



Underside pale reddish brown, striated with grey ; fore 

 wing crossed by a straight brown band, from the costa more 

 than one third from the apex to the hinder margin, which it 

 does not reach, followed by a paler patch and a submarginal 

 incurved row of five or six ocelli with white centres ; hind 

 wing with an outwardly curved brown band, from the costa 

 just beyond the middle to the abdominal margin (which it 

 does not reach) one third from the anal angle, followed by a 

 pale space and a submarginal outwardly curved row of six 

 ocelli with white centres ; both wings broadly margined with 

 brown ; wings shaped much as in M. aswa, Moore ; the grey 

 striations and ocelli much the more prominent in the female. 



Expanse of wings, g 2 T V, ? 2j-$ inches. 



North Kanara, July 1886. 



Allied to M. asica } Moore, with the pattern of the spots 

 below as in M. varaha, Moore. 



