76*6 mr. a. g. butler on new-guinea butterflies. [nov. 21, 



Rhopalocera. 



Nymphalid^e. 



Euplcea guerinii, Felder. 



I merely record this butterfly as being common in the collection, 

 and only previously known to occur at Aru ; until now I had not seen 

 the species. 



Euplcea dolosa, d. sp. (Plate LXXVIT. fig. 1.) 



Allied to the preceding, smaller, no white spots. 



Wings above dark pitchy brown, paler on the external area and 

 costal area of secondaries ; primaries with six to seven lilac subapical 

 spots in a curved series, the third in the male (which is fourth in the 

 female) largest and sagittate ; male with an elongate interno-median 

 sericeous streak ; female with the subapical spots larger and paler 

 than in the male. Wings below bronzy olive-brown ; central area of 

 primaries blackish, internal area greyish, with a sericeous streak in 

 the male and a white streak in the female ; a minute bluish dot in 

 the cell and three beyond it (sometimes wanting) : secondaries with 

 a dot in the cell, and sometimes one beyond it pale bluish ; base of 

 wings and pectus black, white-spotted. Expanse of wings, <$ 3 inches 

 1 line, 5 2 inches 9 lines. 



Calliplcea jamesi, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 2.) 



Allied to C pumila, but the male darker than C trimeaii or C. 

 seriata. 



c? . Wings above deep shining red-brown, the external half of pri- 

 maries and the apical border of secondaries almost black, with faint 

 purplish reflections ; primaries with two subapical contiguous white 

 spots, and below them a decreasing submarginal series of four white 

 spots, all bordered with lavender ; secondaries with costal area shining 

 silver-grey, the cell and the area immediately above it occupied 

 by a large creamy patch ; a whitish subapical dot. Primaries 

 below slightly paler ; a large creamy internal patch reaching the 

 median nervure ; four pure white subapical spots in an oblique series, 

 the two upper ones contiguous and largest ; a submarginal series of 

 minute white points : secondaries red-brown, apical area slightly 

 darker ; two subapical and four to five submarginal white points ; 

 base and pectus black, white-spotted. Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 

 lines. 



$ . Paler and more uniformly coloured than the male, white spots 

 much larger, bordered with lilac, subapical spot of primaries trifid, 

 five submarginal spots ; three subapical white dots in secondaries : 

 wings below paler, all the spots of the upper surface, and a complete 

 submarginal series of spots white : expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 



A well-marked species. 



Calliplcea infantilis, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 3.) 



<S , Allied to the preceding species, considerably smaller, darker, 

 with fewer spots. 



