372 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



List of the Specimens of Lepiclopterous Insects in the collection of the 

 British Museum; Part I, printed by order of the Trustees. -London, 1844. 

 The Lepidoptera have been arranged and named by Edw. Doubleday. The 

 Catalogue is edited by Gray. The form of this publication is commendable, as 

 t affords a store of information not only as to the contents of the collection, 

 but as to the geographical distribution of the species. The part published com- 

 prises the Papilionidae, including Pieridse, Peridromidse, Dauaidse, Helieonida?, 

 Acrseidse, Nymphalidre, Morphidaj, Brassolidre, Satyridse, Eurytelidae, Liby- 

 theida3. 



Bruant and Pierret have published some observations on the pairing 

 of Lepidoptera of different species together; as Satyr us janira with Vanessa 

 urticce, Van. urticre with V. atalaitta, Satyrus janira with Arc/ynnis paphia. 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. p. vi.) 



PAPILIONES. Westwood has continued figuring species of the genus 

 Papilio, in the Arcana Eutomol. P. cliaon and megarus (pi. 72, f. 1, 2), 

 both new, and P. xenocles, Doubl. (70, f. 2), from Assam ; P. pollux and 

 castor (SO, f. 1, 2), new species, from Assam and Sylhet ; P. levcothoe (79, 

 f. 3), new species, probably from Pulo Peuang ; P. palaphates, Boisd. (79, 

 f. 1), new species, from Manilla; and lastly, P. canopus, Westw. (68), from 

 Melville Island on the northern coast of New Holland. 



Doubleday has characterized five new species from South America (Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. xiv. 415) ; P.pliotinm, supposed from Mexico ; P. jjyrochles, from 

 Bogota; P. cymocltles, from Trinidad; P. mezcntius, from New Granada 

 or Ecuador; P. victorinus, from the western side of the New Conti- 

 nent. 



Mann (Eutom. Zeit. 356) has separated as distinct species from 

 Zerynthia polyxena, the Z. creusa and demnosia, Dahl. It is certain that 

 these forms present something peculiar, yet the characters on which the 

 author lays stress do not appear to me to be quite critically correct, and 

 it might be more judicious to attribute the discrepancies to the difference 

 of locality. It may be observed that the Museum here has received from 

 Dahl Z. creusa as a native of the Appennines, while Maun considers it to 

 be confined to Sicily, and Z. demnosia from Trieste, for wliich he gives 

 Tuscany as the habitat. Z. honoratii a variety of Z. medesicata, has been 

 figured by Freyer. (N. Bcitr, pi. 416, f. 12.) 



In the group 7V, //<///, a number of new species have been described by 

 Doubleday. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xiv, 418.) Euterpe kylonoma, from Bogota; 

 Lcptalis cyra, from Brazil ; L. eunoe, from Mexico ; L. praxinoe, ditto ; Z. 

 niedora, from Bogota ; Pieris marana, probably from Guayaquil ; P. chione, 

 from Sierra Leone. 



Boisduval (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. p. Ixviii), from observing the larva 

 and pupa, has convinced himself that Anthocharis bclia and ausonia are one 



