18/9.] ON BUTTERFLIES FROM NEW IRELAND ETC. 155 



Hesperia AURIFER. 



Exp. 2'1 in. Above brownish black ; two spots at the end of the 

 cell, and a row of eight running more or less parallel from the inner 

 margin to the costa, diaphanous, that between the first and second me- 

 dian branches being the largest. Beneath rich dark brown, the 

 central portion of primaries black ; the spots of the primaries as 

 above ; a row of seven golden spots across the secondaries, one at the 

 end of the cell, six in a linear series beyond it ; cilia of secondaries 

 alternately black and white. 



Hab. Irazu, Costa Rica (^Rogers). 



Hesperia saptine. 



Exp. 2*2 in. Upperside deep brown, a large semidiaphanous 

 yellow spot, divided into five by the nervules, crosses the middle of 

 the wing from the costa nearly to the anal angle, the inner edge of 

 this spot is deeplj' sinuated ; apical margin of secondaries narrowly 

 bordered with yellow. Beneath rich dark brown, the band of the 

 primaries as above, apex enclosing three dark spots pinkish brown ; 

 outer margin, costal region, and a band crossing the wing from the 

 middle of the abdominal margin towards the apex dark brown ; the 

 rest, including the apex, pinkish brown. Antennae brown above and 

 yellow beneath. 



Hab. Iraza, Costa Rica {Rogers). 



Hesperia syrna. 



Exp. 23 in. Upper surface dark brown, paler towards the apices 

 of the primaries ; the cell of the primaries, except the proximal end, 

 a large trifid spot with deeply sinuated iimer edge cut by the first 

 and second median branches, a small trifid spot near the costa be- 

 tween the end of the cell and the apex, and three small spots be- 

 tween the apex and the cell of the secondaries semidiaphanous 

 yellow. Beneath exactly as above ; antennae wholly brown. 



Hab. Irazu, Costa Rica (Rogers). 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIV. 



Fig. 1. Eresia laias, p. 151. 



2. Adelpha hypsenor, p. 151. 



3. Pyrrhopyga mrata, p. 152. 



4. minthe, p. 152. 



Fig. 5. Pyrrhopyga euplieme, p. 162. 



6. malis, p. 153. 



7. Hesperia polifes, p. 154. 



8. sacrator, p. 154. 



4. On a Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by the 

 Rev. G. Brown in New Ireland and New Britain. By F. 

 DuCane GodmaNj F.Z.S., and Osbert Salvin, F.R.S. 



[Received January 29, 1879.] 



(Plate XV.) 



la the Proceedings of the Society for 1877 (p^ge 139), we had the 

 pleasure of describing the collection of Lepidoptera formed by the Rev. 

 (i. Brown in the neighbourhood of Duke-of-York Island. We now 



