1877.] ON BUTTERFLIES FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. 139 
6. Note on the Echinodermata sent by the Rev. G. Brown 
from Duke-of-York Island. By Epear A. Situ, 
F.Z.8. 
[Received February 19, 1877.] 
The three species of Echinodermata in the collection made by the 
Rev. G. Brown are all common well-known forms, and have been 
recorded previously both from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 
ASTERID. 
1. ScyrasTerR varioLatus, Retzius. 
Other localities are Zanzibar, Bourbon, Mauritius, Rodriguez, 
New Caledonia. . 
2. GYMNASTERIA CARINIFERA, Lamarck. 
This species has been brought from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, 
Torres Straits, and Sandwich Islands. 
OpHIURID. 
3. OpHrocoma ERINacEvs, Miiller & Troschel. 
Found also in the Red Sea, at Mozambique, Zanzibar, Rodriguez 
Island, Sandwich Islands, Society Islands, &c. 
7. On a Collection of Lepidoptera made by the Rev. G. 
Brown on Duke-of-York Island and its Neighbourhood. 
By Osserr Satyrin, F.R.S., and F. DuCanr GopMan, 
F.Z.8. 
[Received February 2, 187 4 
(Plates XXIT. & XXIII.) 
The collection of Butterflies made by Mr. Brown on Duke-of-York 
Island and the neighbouring islands of New Britain and New Ireland 
contains examples of 26 genera and 40 species, while in that of the 
Moths there are examples of 11 genera represented by 14 species. 
As might be expected from the close proximity of these islands to 
New Guinea, the Lepidopterous fauna partakes of the character of 
the larger island ; for, putting aside such widely ranging genera as 
Danais, Euplea, Mycalesis, &e., the presence of an Ornithoptera 
belonging to the O. priamus group, of Papilio euchenor and of a 
species of the P. ulysses group, as well as the absence of any thing 
like generic peculiarity, shows quite clearly where the relationship 
of the fauna lies, at least as regards the Butterflies. 
With the islands of the South Pacific which lie further to the east- 
ward and south-eastward, the Butterfly-fauna of which is slowly 
being brought to light, the comexion of New Britain and New 
Ireland is not so intimate. 
Mr. Butler (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 274 et seq.) has recently published a 
list of the species described up to that date from the South-Sea Islands; 
