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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA.
Ithomia. Hewitson describes from Ecuador:—I. lycora, Equat. Lep. p. 79;
I. pulcheria, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 154 ; I. praxilla and I. oxia, I. c. p. 155 ; 7.
pronuba, 1. c. p. 156.
Ithomia fizella and I. depauperata, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 34, Guatemala.
Melincea phasiana, Butler, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 489, Peruvian Amazons;
M. zaneka, I. c, Archidona; M. ishka, 1. c. (=Mechanitismenophilus,ILew. f. 3).
[Felder (Reise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 356) has already proposed the name messenoides
for meiiophilus, Hew. f. 2, thus restricting the name menophilus to
Hewitson's f. 3.]
Acr (Bides.
BUTLER remarks (Cat. Lep. Fabr. pp. 128-135) that Pap. macaria, Fabr.,
= Planema euryta, $, Cram., and is distinct from the macaria of Godart;
Acraa cavmentis, Doubl. & Hew., is a slight var. of Planema jodutta, Fabr.,
sp.; P. macarina, Butl. (Ashanti form of Acreca alciope, Hew.), is probably
P. jodutta, cS; Pap. pasiphae, Fabr., = Pap. medea, Cram., is an aberration of
Gnesia egina, Fabr.
TBIMEN remarks (Tr. E. Soc. 1870, pp. 345-347) on specimens of Acrcea
neobule, A. natalica, and A. anacreon, taken in Basuto-land by J. II. Bowker.
He now considers A. natalica to be distinct from A. hypatia,
Acraa andvomacha. Butler has observed some aberrations in the neuration
of the hind wings of this species, which leads him to doubt the value of neuration
as a specific character in Ithomia &c. He thinks, too, that new genera
may sometimes be formed by variations in neuration becoming constant.
P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 777, 778.
Acraa percussa, sp. n. ( — A. igati, var. ?), Keferstein, Entom. Notiz. p. 13,
f. 1,2, Madagascar.
Nyinphalides.
BOISDUVAL (Le"p. Guat. pp. 36-53) proposes the name Synalpe for Clothilda,
Blanch.; remarks that Biblis aganisa, Boisd., and Didonis pasira, Doubl. &
Hew., are perhaps only vars. of hyperia, Cram, (biblis, Fabr.), and that bonp/andi,
Latr., is perhaps not a Synchloe; describes Synchloe panpera, Feld., as
new; proposes the name Corybas for Pyrrhogyra, Iliibn., and states that P.
otolais, Lacordaire [Bates], is probably only a var. of tipha, Linn.; remarks on
Iletevochroa iphielus, Linn., and the species which have been confounded with
it; notes the differences between Chlovippe lauva, Dru., and C. acca, Fold.;
states that Apatura lucasii, Doubl. &Eow,,= c//««c, Latr.; proposes the name
Helicodes for Pvotogoniiis, Iliibn.; and complains that Doubleday has applied
his [MS.!] name cecvops to a variety of Prot. fabius, instead of to some Brazilian
species to which it belongs ; and notes that ryphea, Cram., which has
been confounded by Godart with phidile, Hiibn., = Paphia helie, Linn. Sidevone
mens, Hew. [Bates], is probably the male of marthesia, Cram.
BITLER (Cat. Lep. Fabr. pp. 46-119) notes on species of this family that
P. hevse, Fabr., = 7'. lycaon, $, Fabr., and is an Apaturanear alicia, Edwards;
Abrota gunga, M.,ore, = P. minis, Fabr., $; Ilypanariia tecmesia, Hiibn.,=
Euvemei /mii/lu,, Fabr. ; P. mardauia, Cram.,=,Cystineur a dorcas, Fabr.; P.
pandora, Fabr., may be a var. of Ate/la e-olumbina, Fabr. nee Cram.
Butler also (7. e. pl. 1) figures the following species described by Fabricius:
— Teruios atlita, Limenitis inartha, Junonia zelimu.