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DR. A. GUNTHER ON A ZOOLORICAL 



[June 23, 



VII. LEPIDOPTERA. 

 By A. G. Butler. 



The Lepidoptera obtained in Christmas Island were unfortunately 

 placed in a store-box with a large piece of camphor, which got 

 loose during the transmission of the collection to England, and 

 utterly destroyed all the specimens with the exception of three ; the 

 latter are a good deal injured, but two of them are in sufficiently 

 good condition for determination. 



Among the fragments of wings I am also able to recognize what 

 was doubtless a female Hypolimnas, apparently H. proserpina, Cram., 

 a species occurring in Java. The two Butterflies which esca[)ed 

 destruction are well-marked new species. 



Vadebra macleari, sp. n. 



Allied to F. sepulchralis of Java, but of a deep pitchy-brown 

 colour, the wings almost black in the centre ; the secondaries with a 

 broad snow-white external band from anal angle to radial vein, 

 whence it becomes suffused with greyish brown to apex ; indications 



. Fig. 4. 



Vadehra macleari. 



of three white spots in the form of a triangle on the radial and sub- 

 costal interspaces towards outer margin ; a narrow brown border 

 with black fringe tapering from apex to second median branch, 

 remainder of fringe blackish ; costal area greyish white ; body 

 quite normal, excepting that the white spots on the thorax are very 

 small. Wings below chocolate-brown, the primaries with the central 

 area blackish and the internal area whitish ; a bluish-white spot in 

 the cell arid two on the basal half of the median interspaces as in 

 V. sepulchralis ; secondaries with a small spot in the cell and an 

 angular series of five or six beyond the cell ; white external area as 

 above, with three subapical and seven submarginal brown-edged 

 pearly white spots. Expanse of wings 79 millim. 



There were originally five specimens of this fine species, but of 

 four of them only fragments of the wings remain. 



