36 Mr. A. G. Butler on 
VI.—Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera, chiefly 
from Duke-of- York Island and New Britain. By ARTHUR 
G. Butier, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c. 
THE following species have recently been received from the 
~Godeffroy Museum, along with other species already de- 
scribed. 
RHOPALOCERA. 
This consignment is unusually rich in Kuplceine, most of 
which appear to be specifically distinct from any thing hitherto 
named: one or two of these however, are, identical with 
species previously received by Messrs. Salvin and Godman, 
and included in their lists as doubtfully recognized forms. 
The latter, I now think, may be safely regarded as distinct 
from their allies in other islands; and therefore I have named 
them. 
Both sexes of Salpinx erimas have been received, the 
female much resembling that sex of S. Trettschkiz, but with 
all the white spots of the upper surface much enlarged; on 
the under surface it scarcely differs from the male excepting 
in the usual sexual characters. 
_ Until the publication of Mr. Moore’s revision of the sub- 
family I shall not attempt to separate generically the greenish 
species heretofore placed under Danais, but, to save confu- 
sion, shall describe them provisionally as members of that 
genus. 
1. Danais claribella, sp. n. 
?. Semitransparent greenish white with black nervures ; 
all the wings with a broad black-brown external border, upon 
which are two irregular series of greenish-white spots, the 
inner series large and oval, excepting towards the apex of 
primaries, where the series is inangled (the five uppermost 
spots being small, the second and third nearly round) ; the 
sixth to ninth spots on these wings are almost confluent with 
the ground-colour, from which they are merely separated by 
a squamose blackish transverse streak ; the outer series con- 
sists of small spots in pairs and is submarginal; the costa’) 
and inner margins of the wings are black-brown; the bod 
above black, marked as usual with white. The wings beloy 
chiefly differ in that the external area is paler, especially o 
the secondaries, with the exception of its inner border, which, 
both above and below, is deeply dentate, and which below 
shows this dentation to be produced by large hastate blackish 
