On new Species of Lepidoptera. 149 
“Our form must be associated with the family Loricata 
(Palinurides, Scyllarides) because it presents the characters 
which distinguish this family from the other group of Macru- 
rous Decapod Crustacea, 7. e. the absence of a protective 
lamella, or scale, to the external antenne, the monodactyle 
feet, and the structure of the peduncle of the outer antenna, 
which is composed of three joints, of which the first two are 
intimately united with the epistoma, a peculiarity which is 
met with only in the Loricata. Nevertheless it departs from the 
Palinurides and the Scyllarides by the non-trianeular sternum 
and by a different habit. It must therefore form a new 
genus and a new subfamily in the group of the Loricata.” 
[To be continued. | 
XV.—Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera, chiefly 
from Duke-of-York Island and New Britain. By ArtuurR 
G. Burier, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &e. 
[Continued from p. 43. } 
18. Libythea pulchra, sp. n. 
Allied to L. Geoffroyi and L. antipoda. Wings above 
bright lilac, the whole disk of the secondaries bright fulvous 
orange, borders of all the wings narrowly dark brown ; veins 
brown: thorax blue-green, tips of palpi and shoulders brown ; 
abdomen brown, bluish at base, greyish brown spotted with 
black at the sides. Primaries below ochraceous, apical area 
brown crossed by a vague band of greyish lilac; borders 
brown, the costa traversed by darker striations: secondaries 
rosy lilacine, alternating with four bands of bronze-brown and 
striated with the same colour: body ashy whitish, the pectus 
bluish at the sides. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 
New Britain. 
19. Curetis solita, sp. un. 
¢@. Primaries above dark chocolate-brown, with the lower 
half of the discoidal cell and a large oval patch confluent 
with it upon the median interspaces, bright orange: secon- 
daries slightly paler than the primaries, with slight pur- 
plish and bronze reflections; an elongate subapical orange 
spot and a few scales of the same colour beyond the cell: 
body as usual. Under surface snow-white, with slightly 
sordid margins and brown fringes to the wings; a few 
scarcely perceptible slender grey dashes across the disk, and a 
submarginal series of black dots. Hxpanse of wings 41 millim, 
