282 mr. f. moore on limnaina and euplgeina. [may i, 



Tagata abjecta. 



Euplcea abjecta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 299 ; Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 300. 



Eah. Pelew Islands. 



The habitat of this insect is not the Philippines as stated in the 

 description. Mr. G. Semper, of Altona, from whom the type speci- 

 mens described by Mr. Butler were originally obtained^ informs me 

 that these specimens were collected in the Pelew Islands. 



Peamesta, n. g. 



Fore wing triangular, arched at the base, apex shghtly rounded, 

 exterior margin oblique, waved, posterior margin slightly convex ; 

 sericeous brand long, slender. Hind wing broad, exterior margin 

 waved. 



Pramesta tobleri. 



Euploea tohlm-i. Semper, Verb, nat. Unt. Hamburg, iii. p. 107 

 (1878). 



Both sexes black : fore vnng with a broad white macular oblique 

 subapical band, a small spot above end of the cell, threee on middle 

 of exterior margin, and in the female two between the middle and 

 lower medians. Hind wing with a broad white streak between the 

 veins below the cell from abdominal margin, decreasing in length to 

 middle of the disk ; the streaks between the medians cleft at their end ; 

 a row of six small white spots on middle of exterior margin. 



Expanse 3^ to 3i inches. 



Hab. Phihppiues (Luzon). In coll. G. Semper. 



Rasxtma, n. g. 



Fore wings short, very broad in both sexes, triangular ; exterior 

 margin slightly oblique, convex ; posterior margin iu male very con- 

 vex externally, and with a lengthened broad sericeous brand. Hind 

 wing broad and short. 



Type jR. violetta. 



1. Rasuma violetta. 



Calliploea violetta, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xviii. p. 242 

 (1876). 

 Euploea violetta, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoo!, xiv. p. 300. 



Hab. New Guinea (Port Moresby). 



2. Rasuma ordinata, u. sp. 



Allied to R. violetta. Fore wing in male with a suhmarginal row 

 of nine small distinct purplish-white spots, and eight spots in the 

 female : hind wing without spots. 



Expanse 2| inches. 



Hah. New Guinea (Port Moresby). Iu coll. British Museum. 



