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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA.
Abbot; Boisd. & Lee, text, =interrogationis, Godt., pp. 302,819 (var.) ; Harr.
Ins. Mass. ed. 2, plate; Lintner. The transformations of both species are described,
and the allied species referred to. Scudder (P. Bost. Soc. xiii. p. 276)
regards c-aureum, Cram. & Abbot, as distinct, and proposes the name cramei-i
for it.
Grapta faunus, Edw., described and figured by Edwards, Butt. N. Amer.,
Grapta, pi. 1.
Vanessa huntera occurs in Madeira. Godman, Nat. Hist. Azores, p. 332.
[It is abundant in one of the Canary Isles.]
On varieties of Vanessa io and Pyrameis atalanta, see F. Enock, Ent. v.
p. 142.
Vanessa charonia, Dru., = Pap. canace, Linn.: Kirby, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 146.
Vanessa polychloros. Life-history described by Newman, Ent. v. pp. 158-
160 ; additional notes by J. Merrin, I. c. pp. 178,179.
Vanessa urtica. A dwarf specimen has been reared by F. Bond, Proc. Ent.
Soc. Lond. 1870, p. 39. On parasites infesting this species, see G. T. Porritt,
Ent. v. p. 166. Staudinger remarks on vars. turcica and ichnusa, and characterizes
var. polaris, Hor. Ent. Ross. vii. pp. 57, 58.
Vanessa antiopa. Larva described by Newman, Ent. v. pp. 211,212.
Ageronia arete, Doubl. & Hew. Boisduval states that this insect= Arethusa,
3, and is distinct from his Peridromia arete [described by Lucas, Rev.
Zool. 1853, p. 310], of which he gives a short description.
Callithea whitelyi, Salv., is figured by Hewitson, Exot. Butt. 74, Call, and
Agrias, pi. 2. f. 7, 8. He also figures his own C. buckleyi (I. c. f. 9,10).
Limenitis proserpina. Sexes contrasted by C. P. Whitney. P. Bost. Soc.
xiii. p. 85. It occurs in Illinois, E. G. Boutell, Amer. Ent. ii. p. 241.
Lim. Ursula and L. disippus. T. W. Higginson remarks on these species.
Amer. Ent. ii. p. 177.
Lim. disippus. Larva described, Amer. Ent. i. p. 193, note.
Lim. lovquini, Boisd., described and figured by Edwards, Butt. N. Amer.
Lim. pi. 3. The larva is also noticed, from Behr's observations.
Lim. bredowii, Hiibn. (=eulalia, Doubl., = califbrnica, Butl.), figured by
Edwards, I. c. Lim. pi. 4.
Agrias beatifica, Hew., is figured by Hewitson, Ex. Butt. 74, April 1870,
Callithea and Agrias, pi. 2. f. 5, 6.
Char axes. Butler (Lep. Exot. iv. pi. 10) figures and describes the followlowing
known species :—C. pelias, C. phraortes, C. druceanus, C. zephyrus, C.
allodia is, C. bohemani.
BUTLER has published (Tr. E. Soc. 1870, pp. 119-121) a series of notes on
the species of Chavaxcs described by Felder:— C. mandarinus probably =C.
narcceus; C. attalus probably = C. athamas; C. bharata, of which C. arja is a
var,, is perhaps distinct; C. brennus is not C. latona, but perhaps C. affinis,%;
C. pavmenion, demonax, and amycus are probably vars. of C. affinis; C. scylax
= C. baja; C. hierax and C. hipponax= C. bernardus; C.pleistoanax is a whitebanded
race of the same.
Paphia glycerium. Transformations figured and described, Amer. Ent. ii.
pp. 121-123. '
Paph. onophis, Feld. Boisduval describes this species as new, Lep. Guat.
p. 50.
Chlosyne, g. n., Butl. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 38, = Synchloe, auct. nee Iliibn.