On Rhopalocera_/rom Japan and Shan ff hat. 91 free, giving evidence of its toughness and definite walling. It contained a single germinal spot. The New-Zealand Peripatus is much smaller than the Cape species ; and yet the embryos are much larger. In all the specimens examined by me the embryos were far fewer in number than ordinarily in P. capensis ; yet Captain Hutton in one instance found 26 embryos in one female. The em-bryos, as observed by Captain Hutton, occur in successive stages of development in the oviduct, and are not all nearly equally mature as in P. capensis. The embryos have the contents of the developing intestine coloured red in P. capensis ; in P. novce-zealaiidice the contents are white. The embryos appear in the New-Zealand species not to go through the preliminary worm-like stage, with the body spirally coiled (Phil. Trans. Z.c.pl. Ixxv. fig. l),whicliispresentinP.ca/>e«si5; they seem to have lost this earlier stage, and to skip at once to the further stage of P. cajyensis (Phil. Trans. I. c. pi. Ixxv. fig. 4), the first indication of form being the appearance of a liilum near one pole of the ovoid ^g%^ which liilum marks the spot where the tail and head meet in the doubled-up condition of the embryo. VII. — On Rhopalocera from Japan and Shanghai^ with Descriptions of neio Species. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S. &c. Mr. Montague Fenton (of Tosengi, Takanawa, Tokei, Japan) has recently forwarded to the British Museum a small box of Diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising the following species. Coenonympha annulifer^ n. sp. Nearly allied to C geticus, but larger, longer in the wing, much darker; on the underside with the plumbagineous streak, which bounds the ocelli of secondaries internally, straight on its inner edge instead of undulated. Expant^e of wings ^ 1 inch 7 lines, ? 1 inch 10 lines. About 370 miles from Tokei (Yedo). This species is probably the same as that noted by the Rev. R. P. Murray as Coenonympha cedipus^ Fabricius. Neope Fentoni, n. sp. •â– s 5 ,M(5netrit5s, Reisen und . tab. iii. fig. 9 (1850). In the heart of the mountains, about 370 miles from Tokei. Lusiommata ejmnenicks 2 ,M(5netrit5s, Reisen und Forscliungen im Amur-Lande, ii. 1, Lepid. tab. iii. fig. 9 (1850).
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