1878.] MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALV1N ON NEW BUTTERFLIES. 733 



Fig. 10. Melania subplicatula, p. 729. 



11. Bullia perska, p. 730. 



12. Ostrea, attached to a Trochus, whose character of sculpture it has 



assumed, p. 730. 



13. 14. Cyprcea peasei, var. monstrosa, p. 731. 



16. Descriptions of some apparently new Species of Butter- 

 flies from New Ireland and New Britain, sent by the 

 Rev. G. Brown. By F. D. Godman and O. Salvin. 



[Eeceived June 18, 1878.] 



The five species described below form part of a collection just 

 received from Mr. G. Brown. We are preparing a full report of 

 this collection, which we hope to lay before the Society in the 

 autumn. In the mean time we have thought it desirable to publish 

 the following descriptions. 



EUPLCEA ERIMAS. 



cJ. Exp. 37. Upper surface rich steel-blue, a large patch of 

 bluish white on the primaries cut by the dark median nervure and 

 its branches and by the nervules at the end of the cell ; there is a 

 dark triangular spot in the acute angle between the median nervule 

 and its first branch ; the inner margin of the primaries is strongly 

 convex, and covers a brown patch on the secondaries ; the secon- 

 daries have a whitish median band cut by the nervules, one section 

 falling inside the cell ; the inner edge of this band is deeply sinuated, 

 as also is the outer edge to a less extent. 



Beneath greenish black, the spots of the upper surface are much 

 more broken up, that on the primaries being divided into eight 

 separate portions, the largest of which lies just within the cell ; that 

 on the secondaries is broken into eleven portions, one of which oc- 

 cupies the end of the cell. 



Hab. New Ireland. 



06s. Allied to E. Jessica from the Fiji Islands, and more remotely 

 to E. eupator, Hew., from Celebes. From the former it differs in 

 having the markings on the upper surface bluish white instead of 

 yellow, and the spot on the upper wing is not broken into two as 

 shown in Mr. Butler's figure (Lep. Ex. pi. 8. fig. 3). 



PlERIS MADETES. 



d • Exp. 3-5. Above uniform orange, apex and costa of prima- 

 ries black. 



Primaries beneath black, a large spot at the end of the cell and 

 seven large elongated submarginal spots yellow; a pale yellowish 

 patch spreads from the inner margin over the median branches to just 

 within the cell ; secondaries orange, base and outer margin black, 

 the latter including a row of six large yellow spots ; a large red spot 

 between the costal and subcostal nervures near their origin. 



$ . Exp. 38. Above, primaries black, a large yellowish spot at 



