272 mr. f. moork on limnaina and euplceina. [may i, 



8. Andasena eleutho. 



Danais eleutho, Quoy and Gaimard, Freycinet's Voy. p. 554, pi. 83. 

 fig. 2 (1815); Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 815; Boisduval, Voy. 

 Astrolabe, Ent.p. 100. 



Euploea eleutho, Butler, Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 299. 



Hah. Isle of Guam, Ladroue Islands ; Samoa and EUice Islands 

 (B.M.). 



Deragena, n. g. 



From typical Andasena this differs in the fore wing being some- 

 what shorter and more convex at the apex, the sericeous brand only 

 half the length, and the exterior margin more even : hind wing also 

 with an even exterior margin. 



Type D. proserpina. 



1. Deragena childreni, u. sp. 



Enploea grayi, Boisduval, MS. 



Upperside dark chocolate-brown, palest externally : fore wing with 

 a submarginal apical series of very minute white dentate spots ; 

 sericeous streak five twelfths of an inch in length : hind wing with a 

 submarginal upper series of very small white spots, and a smaller 

 series of very indistinct marginal spots. Underside — fore wing with 

 a more distinct submarginal row of dentate white spots and three 

 minute bluish-white discal spots : hind wing with a submarginal and 

 marginal upper series of distinct white spots, and a curved discal 

 series of smaller bluish-white spots, one being within the cell. 



Expanse 2g inches. 



Hah. Java. In. coll, Mons. C. Oberthiir. 



2. Deragena proserpina. 



Euploea proserpina, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 300, S ; 

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



Eaplcea herrichii, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 344, pi. 39. 

 figs. 3, 4(1867). 



Hah. Fiji Islands (Ovalau, Vanua Levu). 



3. Deragena schmeltzii. 



Euplcea schmeltzii, Her.-Schaffer, Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 70, 

 pL 2. f. 8, $ ; Exot. Schmett. ii. f. 110 (1869) ; Butler, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 300. 



Hab, Samoa, Upolu, Lifu. 



4. Deragena whitmei. 



Euplcea ivUtmei, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 349, 

 $ (1877). 

 Hab. Royalty Islands (Lifu). 



5. Deragena boisduvalii. 



Euplcea hoisduvalii, Lucas, Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 321. 

 Hab. Australia. 



