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he took during his journey to the southern parts of East Florida in 1836. 

 Should this insect prove to be a distinct species, I trust that the entomologist 

 who may describe it, will name it after the unfortunate discoverer, who fell a 

 victim in the following year to Indian treachery, a fate which, but for a fortu- 

 nate detention on the St. John's, I should probably have shared with him." 



35. MESTRA Hiihner (1823-26). 



Type : Mestra Hypermestra Uubn. 



91. Amymane M.-iutr., Euum. An. Mus. Petrol., 1, 123, pi. 9, fig. 6 {Ci/sti- 



neura). 



Amymone Kirb., Syn. Cat. 217 {Cystiiieurd). 

 Dorcas Edw. (nee Fabr.), Syn. N. Am. Butt., 18 {Cystineura). 

 Texas (Nicaragua). 



36. AMniLTCHLORA Felder (1861). 

 Type : Papilio Feronia Linn. 



92. * Fornax Iliihn., Exot. Schmett. 2 (Ageronia) ; Feld., Neues Lep., 19. 

 Texas (and southward, at least through Central America). 



93. * Feronia Liun.,Sys,t.^iit.,EdAO, 4:13 {Papilio); Hiibn., Exot. Schmett., 



1 {Hamadryas decora) ; lb., Verz. Schmett., 42 {Ageronia) ; Feld., Neues 

 Lep., 19. 

 Texas (and southward to Brazil). 



37. TIWETT^^ Boisduml {ISm). 



Type : Tymetes Merops Boisd. 



94. Coresia Ood., Encycl. Meth., 9, 359 {WympJmlis) ; Blanch., Hist. Nat. Ins., 



3, 447 {Megalura) ; Doubl.-Hewits., Gen. Diurn. Lep., 203 {2'inietes). 

 Zerynthia Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett., 2. 

 Sylla Perty, Del. An. Art., 151, pi. 29, figs. 2, 2b {Papilio). 

 Texas ; New Mexico (to Brazil). 



38. ATHENA Uuhner (1816). 



Type: Papilio Thetys i^76r. 



95. Peleus Snh., Gesch. Ins., pi. 13, tig. 4 {Papilio); Kirb., Syn. Cat., 223 



{Megalura). 



Thetys Fabr., (Jen. Ins., 264 {Papilio). 

 Thetis God., Encycl. Meth., 9, 358 {Nymphalis). 

 Petreus Cram., Pap. Exot., 1, id. 87, figs. D E {Papilio). 

 Eleucka Edw. {nac Eleuchea Hiibn.), Syn. N. Am. Butt., 22 {Timetes). 

 Florida (to Brazil). 



Food-yilant : Anacardium occidentale. 



Mr. Edwards has shown me a drawing of this spech;s made from a si)ecimen 

 taken at Apalachicola by Dr. Chapman. 



