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was Staudinger, who (juotes part of 15oisduvars original description as proving that 

 nodrica could not be the same as Staudinger's immictdata. In this Staudinger was 

 certainly right; bat it is nevertheless astonishing that after the perusal of the 

 original description he states that he does not know nodrica. He knew it well 

 enough, and even figured the male of it. The weight of Boisduval's name, apparently, 

 was at that time still so great that nobody doubted nodrica being a I'arthenos 

 (= Minetra). 



What is nodrica Boisd. (1832)? Those who are acquainted with Papuan 

 bntterflies will recognise the species at once from the original description, of which 

 we quote here the French portion : 



" Ailes arrondies, d'un brnn noiratre, avec uue bande blauchatre commune ; les 

 sup^rienres ayant pres de la cote un point, et trois pres du sommet, blauchatres ; leur 

 des.sons brunatre, avec quelques trait.s basilaires bleus, et uu anneau costal noir a 

 prunelle bleue ; dessons des infdrieures roussatre, avec la base verdatre tach^e de 

 bleu, et una rangee posterieure de gros points noirs." 



There is only one Papuan Nymphaline known with a white band across both 

 wings and a blue-pupilled costal eye-spot on the underside of the forewing : the 

 white-banded ? oi S>/mphaedra aeropa\j. {\~b^). 



I restrict the name oi nodrica Boisd. (1832) to " New Guinea" specimens, no 

 white-banded ? ? of aeropa being known from Burn. 



An e.xcuse can be found for every error. The confusion was started by 

 Boisduval himself in the .4.s?/'fl/«4fc' by describing acroyy^, L. as T.exias neropiis on 

 p. 12.5, and a ? of it as Minetra nodrica on p. 126, and this is a kind of e.xcuse for 

 the continuation of the mistake. 



The type of «0(//vW< mentioned by Oberthiir (1880) is certainly not tlie type, 

 but a specimen subsei|uently placed by Boisduval in his collection as nodrica. The 

 type of true nodrica may possibly be preserved in the Paris Museum. 



The Parthenos from the north side of the Beron Peninsula is /'. si/lsia 

 immaculata Stand. (1886), a name which is not mentioned in Seitz. 



P. ti<jrina Vollenh. (1866) is not specifically dill'erent from sijlcia. 



