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of them getting loose in transit caused much damage to the others, 

 so that the greater part arrived in a very broken condition. A por- 

 tion of the same collection, which Mr. Goldie considered duplicates 

 of those he had forwarded to us, was sent to the Rev. Mr. Lawes, of 

 Reading. Mr. Lawes subsequently disposed of them to Mr. Henley 

 G. Smith, by whom they were submitted to us for examination. 

 Amongst these were some species not included in the first set we 

 received. Since this Mr. Goldie has sent us from the same collection 

 a third set; and it is from these several sources that the following 

 descriptions have been compiled. Besides those here described, 

 the collection contains others which are probably still unnamed ; 

 but we prefer to await the arrival of further specimens before we 

 determine the species. 



Melanitis amabilis, Boisd. Voy, Astr. Lep. p. 140, t. 2. 

 f. 1, 2. 



d . Much smaller than female ; upperside dark brown, wings 

 crossed beyond the end of the cell by a broad yellow baud extending 

 to the anal angle. 



Mus. nostr. 



Boisduval describes and figures the female of this species from an 

 individual from New Ireland, from which locality we have also 

 received it. Mr. Goldie now sends it from Port Moresby, together 

 with three specimens of the male, which we believe has been 

 hitherto unknown ; and we therefore give a short description of it. 



Mycalesis melanopis, sp. nov. (Plate LVI. fig. 1.) 



S . Exp. 2-3 inches. 



Black, [)roxiiiial half (except the costa) of the primaries bright 

 fulvous, darker towards the base ; two white-pupillated black ocelli 

 towards the outer margin — one subapical, the other between the first 

 and second median branches ; the basal portion of the secondaries 

 paler brown, a white-pupillated ocellus near the centre of the outer 

 margin. Beneath, basal half of both wings drab, outer half darkish 

 brown, paler towards the margin, and with two fine submarginal 

 darker lines ; primaries with two large ocelli, secondaries with four, 

 whereof the second and fourth are the smallest. 



3Ius. nostr. 



Allied to M. mticia. Hew., from Dorey, but with the fulvous 

 colour of the upj)erside restricted to the basal half of the primaries ; 

 the rest of the wings being nearly black with a brownish tinge ; 

 beneath, the ocelli, though similarly placed, are smaller. 



Lamprolenis, gen. nov. 

 Palpi erect, densely covered with short stiff scales directed out- 

 wards, terminal joint short, erect. Primaries pointed, outer margin 

 curved inwards, apex slightly falcate ; bases of the costal, median, 

 and submedian nervures swollen ; cell moderately long, two long sub- 

 costal branches emitted before the end, third branch short ; lower 

 discocellular bent to an acute angle, emitting a short recurrent 



