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[October, 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF BRAHM2EA FROM JAPAN. 
BY ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
Some years since, when I enumerated the species of Brahmcea 
(P. Z. S., 1866, pp. 118 — 121), I could only muster four, as follows : 
1. Brahmcea CertJiia , Walk. ( nec Fabr.), = B. concliifera , Butl. 
2. „ Whitei, Butl. 
3. „ Betiveri , Butl., = Certhia , Fabr. 
4. „ Lucina , Drury. 
Three more species have subsequently been added to the genus 
by myself, one by Felder and one by Bogenhofer ; the B. Wallichii of 
Gray has also been recognised as distinct from the species with, which 
it was formerly represented ; the genus now stands as follows : — 
Section I. 
1. Brahmcea Lucina , Drurv. Sierra Leone. 
# 2. „ Swanzyi , Butler. Fantee and Old Calabar. 
Section II. 
3. Brahmcea Certhia, Fabr. (= lunulata, Brern., = JPetiveri, 
Butl.). Chusan ; North China. 
*4. „ Ledereri, Fogenhofer. Asia Minor. 
5. „ Mniszechii, Felder. Japan. 
Section III. 
*6. BraJimcea jap onica, Butler. Yokohama and Nikko. 
7. „ nigrans, n. sp. 
Nearest to B. japonica, but differing in its slightly smaller size, narrower 
secondaries and altogether blacker coloration ; the white bands on the body are 
confined to the front of the head and collar ; the back of the collar and margins of 
the tegulse are gi’ey, the remainder of the thorax above is black, the abdomen blackish- 
brown ; the ground-colour of the primaries does not show the pink tint of B. ja- 
ponica , but is sordid white, all the wavy black lines are wider, those across the disc 
being of a purplish-slate colour, the basi-costal area is broadly suffused with dark 
greenish -black ; the central belt is very much constricted above the internal ocelloid 
patch, is of a dull greenish-white colour, and the little pupillated black spots upon 
it are more numerous, and, to a great extent, connected ; the submarginal spots are 
more widely separated ; the secondaries have a much narrower basal area, less suf- 
fused with blackish (not black) than in B. japonica , the belt which limits it 
externally is much more abruptly angulated, of a sordid white colour, and traversed 
by a simple greyish stripe ; the disc is of a pale greyish-brown tint, is wider than in 
B. japonica, and the lines which traverse it are increased in number by one, and are 
of a dull purplish-brown colour; the submarginal wavy belt, is similar, but the 
outer border is distinctly narrower, and of nearly uniform width throughout : on 
the under-surface the prevailing colour is smoky-grey, the ground-colour showing no 
