156 Mr. W. F. Kirbj on Lepidoptera XVII. — On the Collection of Lepidojytera formed hy Basil Thomson^ Esq., in the Louisiade Archipelago. By W. F. KiRBY, F.E.S., Assistant in Zoological Department, British Museum (Natural History). The collection of Lepidoptera entrusted to me for examina-tion includes forty-one specimens, belonging to twenty-one species, of which two only are moths. Among the butter-flies 1 found eight species which appear to be new and whicli are described below. So far as can be seen from so small a selection, the affinities of the species are mainly Papuan, especially with those previously received from Port Moresby. Several of the species also exhibit strong Moluccan and Australian affinities, while others show a rela-tionship to the insects of Kei, Aru, New Georgia, and other islands lying east or west of the Louisiades. There are not more than one or two species, such as Eurema hecahe and Leptosoma integrum, which exhibit any special relationship to the Indo-Malayan fauna. Perhaps the most interesting of the novelties obtained by Mr. Thomson are the species of Tenaris, belonging to a genus of butterflies which obtains its maximum of development in the Papuan Islands. That so large a proportion of novelties as eight conspicuous butter-flies out of a total of nineteen were collected during a flying-visit to one or two islands sufficiently indicates the richness of the fauna of the Louisiades and the desirability of its being more systematically investigated. PtHOPALOCEKA. Nymphalidae. LiMNAINA. Genus ASTHIPA. Asthi^a, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 24G. 1. Asthiiia Schenkii. Danais Schenkii, Kocli, Indo-Austr. Lep.-Fauna, p. 107 (ISGo). Danais (jhriola, 5 var., Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 18(J6, p. 57. " Rossel Island, Oct. 18, 1888." A pair, male and fe-male. This is a larger and paler species than A, gloriola, Butl.
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