300 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS EUPLCEA. [^ a )' ^' 



from the description given in the * Faune de l'Oceanie;' it does not 

 at all suit the figure in the • Species General des Lepidopteres ; ' it is 

 therefore not impossible that I may have redescribed one or two of 

 Dr. Boisduval's insects on account of the incomplete manner in which 

 they are noticed. I have, however, carefully gone through all our 

 specimens of Euplcea with his descriptions, and in most cases have, 

 I think, satisfactorily determined the species which they represent. 



89. EUPLCEA ELEUTHO. 



Banais eleutho, Quoy & Gaim. in Freycinet, Voy. t. 83. f. 2 

 (1815) ; Godt. Enc. Meth. (Suppl.) ix. p. 815. nos. 17, 18 (1823). 



Euplcea eleutho, Boisduval, Faune de l'Oce'anie, p. 100 (1832) ; 

 Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 88. n. 36 (1847). 



Hab. Taiti; Navigators' Islands ; New Caledonia. B.M. 



Var. (a). Anticce maculis subapicalibvs magnis : posticce maculis 



submarginalibus fasciam latum formantibus. 

 Hab. ? B.M. 



Var. (b). Anticce apice acuto producto, maculis subapicalibus mag- 

 nis : posticce fascia submarginali lata apud alarum medium. 

 Hab. North Australia. B.M. 



90. Euplcea proserpina, sp. n. 



cJ . Alas supra nigro-fuscce, antic<e ad marginem paulo pallescente, 

 stria interna nitida, maculis quinque punctoque vno subapicali- 

 bus, maculis duabus submarginalibus, una subtriangulari alteraque 

 magna claviformi, a/bis, punctis nonnullis minimis marginalibus 

 valde indistinctis : posticce costa pallida, fascia maculari submar- 

 ginali punctisque nonnullis marginalibus ockreo-albis : corpus 

 nigro-fuscum, antice albo punctatum, antennis nigris. 



Ahv subtus pallidiores, anticce margine interno pallido, maculis velut 

 supra, punctis quatuor apicalibus, quatuor marginalibus mediis, 

 uno discali interno, uno post cellce extimum unoque costali albis, 

 uno in cella subviolaceo : posticce costa ochrea basi albo punctata, 

 punctis quinque discalibus unoque ad cellce extimum cceruleis, 

 maculis submarginalibus velut supra : corpus nigrum albo punc- 

 tatum, antennis nigris. 



Exp. alar. unc. 2|-. 



Hab. Figi Islands. B.M. 



Allied to E. pelor of Doubleday and E. eleutho of Quoy. 



91. Euplcea pelor. 



Euplcea pelor, Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 88. 

 n. 34. t. 11. f. 1 (1847) ; Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. (Papillons) p. 64. 

 f. 153 (1851-53). 



Hab. North-western Australia. B.M. 



92. Euplcea melpomene, sp. n. (Fig. 2, p. 298.) 



(^ . Alee supra nigro-fuscce ccerulescentes, anticce punctis tribus 

 subcostalibus albis, macula magna apicali a vena una interrupt a 



