On Butterflies from the Fiji Islands. 843 
XXXVIII.—A Collection of Butterflies from the Fiji Islands. 
By Artuur G. Butter, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &e. 
THE collection of which the present is an account is one of 
unusual interest, from the great care with which it has been 
made, a record of the locality and date of capture being given 
upon each envelope. Of some of the species no examples 
have previously (so far as I know) reached this country, 
whilst of others we have only known single examples or a 
air. 
This series was collected by C. M. Woodford, Esq., and 
presented to the British Museum. 
Nymphalidae. 
Evrrie@in#. 
Much discussion has arisen respecting Mr. Moore’s revision 
of this group of butterflies, and there is no doubt that by the 
introduction into this otherwise most laboriously constructed 
paper, of unquestionably incomplete “ tables of the genera,” 
its author has laid himself open to criticism. Whether the 
groups regarded by Mr. Moore as genera are allowed to retain 
that rank or are regarded as sections, there can be no doubt 
that many of them are sufficiently distinct to exhibit series of 
parallel species, such as are recognized as existing between 
the universally admitted New-World genera Ceratinia, Me- 
chanitis, Melina, and Heliconius. So far as I am personally 
concerned, [ think a generic boundary separating such parallel 
series (even though it be only indicated by a slight constant 
modification in the wing-structure) is profitable to the student, 
in that it calls his attention to the existence of parallelism in 
the subfamily ; and I think it convenient to admit the greater 
part of Moore’s genera (in the present paper I admit all with 
which I have to deal), though in the case of Andasena and 
Nipara, I believe the latter name will not stand. 
1. Tirumala moderata. 
Danais moderata, Butler, P. Z.S. 1874, p. 275, 
Tairuni, September 1882. 
2. Andasena eleutho. 
Danais eleutho, Quoy & Gaimard in Freye, Voy. p. 554, pl. Ixxxiii. 
fig. 2 (1815). 
Mango, 20th July, 1882. 
