610 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 16, 
could glean I found it was so. Two English gentlemen saw it 
brought up by divers from the bottom, who stated it grew sponge 
downward and spicula upwards. Upon stating this to an awful 
authority of the British Museum he said, ‘ Pshaw! Japanese always 
stuff up Europeans,’ and added by way of proof, ‘ we hauled up some 
the other day in the Bay of Biscay with a hook and line, and the 
spongy stuff came up first, so it must be so.’ ”” 
6. On a Collection of Butterflies from the New Hebrides and 
Loyalty Islands, with Descriptions of new Species. By 
Anrtuur G. Butier, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &e. 
[Received October 2, 1875.] 
(Plate LXVII.) 
It will be remembered that I published a list of the Butterflies of 
the South-Sea Islands in the ‘ Proceedings’ for 1874, in which I 
enumerated 104 species, reported by various entomologis‘s as occur- 
ring in that interesting region. In the present paper I propose to 
give a list of the species recently sent to the British Museum by our 
indefatigable correspondent W. Wykeham Perry, Esq., H.M.S. Pearl, 
as the result of a short cruise through the New Hebrides. 
Mr. Perry writes, ‘‘We made such a hurried run through the 
group, that I had but a few hours to spend at each place which we 
visited, and therefore less opportunity than I had hoped to have of 
making a more varied collection.”’ 
Notwithstanding the short time in which the whole of the species 
were captured, they represent a most interesting and instructive con- 
signment, not only as clearing up difficulties respecting some of the 
forms inserted with hesitation in my previous list, but because 
nearly half of them are new to science—one or two being, moreover, 
referable to genera which have ever been especial favourites with 
lepidopterists. 
Fortunately, Mr. Perry has sent good series of several of the com- 
moner species ; so that their constancy is now firmly established, and 
all doubt of their being variations or sports of other Butterflies is 
at once set at rest. 
The following is a list of the species. 
. DANAIS PUMILA, Boisduval. 
as Loyalty group, May 1875. 
Previously only known from New Caledonia. 
2. DANAIS HEBRIDESIA, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 6.) 
2. Allied to D. pumila, but considerably larger, the wings pro- 
portionally longer ; primaries with the outer margin distinctly sub- 
angulated below the apex ; basal yellow area rather paler ; the sub- 
apical band more oblique, and consequently longer; secondaries 
with the upper discocellular scarcely perceptibly angulated ; the 
