1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM CAPE YORK. 4G9 



Genus Diadema, Boisduval. 



14. Diadema velleda. 



Papilio velleda, Cramer, Pap. Exot. pi. 349. figs. C, D (1782). 



A series of both sexes. 1 New Guinea. 



In the present consignment there are no specimens of the true 

 Diadema alimena ; I am therefore strongly inclined to believe that 

 D. velleda is a good species confined to Southern New Guinea, and 

 that the example previously noted (Ann. & Mag. ser. 4, vol. xviii. 

 p. 124) was taken there, and not at Cape York : the habitat is not 

 indicated. 



Genus Cethosia, Fabricius. 



15. Cethosia imperialis. 



Cethosia imperialis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. S. 4, vol. xviii. 

 p. 124. n. 1.5 (1876). 



One example. Cape York. 



Genus Junonia, Hiibner. 



16. Junonia ALBiciNCTA. 



Junonia albicincta, Butler, Trans. Ent, Soc. 1875, p. 5. 



One dwarfed example. Cape York. 



Genus Messaras, Doubleday." 



17. Messaras turneri. 



Messaras turneri, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. S. 4, vol. xviii. 

 p. 244. n. 17 (1876). 



One dwarfed example. New Guinea. 



Familj' Lycenid^e. 



Subfamily Lyc^enin^, Butler. 



Genus Lyc^na, Fabricius. 



18. LYCiENA CONFORMIS, U. Sp. 



Above brown distinctly shot with violet, excepting the costal and 

 external borders, which are rather broadly olive-brown, fringe rather 

 paler; body blackish: wings below sordid whitish; outer margin 

 bordered by a slender black line ; discocellulars and a submarginal 

 series of spots, behind which is a series of lunules, brown ; primaries 

 with a dot in the cell, a second subcostal, and an arched discal series 

 of six spots, black ; secondaries with an irregular series of spots 

 (encircling the discocellular litura from a short distance) formed of 

 two lines, the first crossing the cell, the second forming an arc across 

 the disk, all black ; the whole of the spots on the under surface 

 margined with pure white ; body below white, Expanse of wings 

 10 hues. 



One example. Cape York. 



Allied to L. lysizone. 



