2. EUPLOÆ ---- sp?

The expansion of the wings is 2¾ inches. On the upper side all the wings

are dull, brownish-black, with a series of large white terminal spots.

Two or three specimens of this insect are stated by Mr. T. W. Kirk to have

been taken near Flat Point on the east coast of the North Island, but no

further details are forthcoming. The late Mr. Olliff, to whom I forwarded a

sketch of the insect, informed me that it was not represented in the Sydney

collections of Australian and South Sea Island butterflies, but he thought

it might be a Malayan species of _Euploæ_.

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