1877.] BUTTERFLIES FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. 141 
tunately the species there mentioned are, many of them, at present 
unknown to our collections 3; but the paper is one that has an im- 
portant bearing upon the nomenclature of the Butterflies of the 
eastern end of New Guinea and of the islands which lie beyond. 
In concluding these preliminary notes, we offer our thanks to 
Mr. A. G. Butler of the British Museum for his assistance in enabling 
us to compare our specimens with those in the national collection, 
and for his help in several matters connected with the subject of 
this paper, 
RHOPALOCERA. 
NYMPHALID4. 
DaNnaIna. 
1. DANats AUSTRALIS. 
Danais australis, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Péle Sud, Zool. iv. p. 388, 
Atlas, t. 2. f. 5, 6 (N. Australia). 
The specimens sent (three in number) seem to agree better with 
the figure quoted above than with any other of the many local 
forms into which the widely ranging D. limniace (L.) has been 
divided. The hind wings have their distal halves of a paler brownish 
tint, and in this respect resemble the race described by Mr. Butler 
(Ent. Month. Mag. xi. p- 163), from New Guinea (Dorey), as D. 
leucoptera. 
2. DANAIS SOBRINA. 
Danais sobrina, Boisd. Voy. Astr. Entom. p- 103, Atlas, t. 4. 
f. 3 (Bouru and New Guinea), 
The single specimen in the collection only differs from the plate 
quoted above in having the spots of both wings rather larger. 
3. EupL@a UNIBRUNNEA, sp. n. 
3 Exp. 4:9. Form similar to that of EZ. proethoé, Godt. Above 
uniform brown, except the granular patch and the portion of the 
hind wings covered by the fore wings, which are yellowish white : 
beneath brown, fore wings with a submarginal row of minute 
bluish-white spots and two larger ones, extracellular, one on each 
of the median interspaces; hind wings with a marginal row of 
similar spots, which become evanescent towards the anal angle; at the 
apical angle is another row of four spots inside the first row ; a row 
of seven spots surrounds the outside of the upperside and distal end 
of the cell; and, lastly, one is situated inside the cell close to the 
distal end. There are a pair of preocular spots, a pair of supra- 
ocular, a pair on the prothorax, and one on each of the wing- 
coverts. 
Obs. Allied to ZF. semicirculus, Butl. (EZ. cuvieri, Feld.), but 
differing in the absence of all spots on the upper surface of the wings. 
A large and apparently well-marked species, of which Mr. Brown’s 
collection contains two examples. The second specimen has a 
pinkish-white tinge on the cell of the primaries. 
