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C. Hind-wings red. C Alecto. 



CC. Hind-wings black. C. Boisduvallii. 



BBB. Fore-wings brown, with silvery lines. C. Celerio. 



AA. Abdomen with the base and sides varied with black and white. 



C. OSTEIS. 



C. Elpenoh. Common in collections ; generally distributed. 



C. Celekio. Common in collections ; generally distributed in 

 south Europe. 



C. OsYBTS, Dalm., 2" 11'" -3" 3'". Very near Celerio, but the 

 markings of fore-wing are less silvery, the marginal band of hind-wing 

 is twice as broad, and the black basal markings are less distinct. Body 

 similar, but the principal stripes are pinkish, and there are two inter- 

 rupted black bands on the first segments of the abdomen. 



Larva unknown. 



E-eputed to have been once taken at Cadiz. It is a universally 

 diffused African species, and is probably not indigenous in Europe. 



C. Alecto, Lin., 2" 10"'-3" 2'". Fore-wing brown, with two dis- 

 tinct transverse lines, the most conspicuous running from the middle of 

 the inner ma.rgin to the tip ; hind-wing red, blackish at base, hind mar- 

 gin black ; anal angle with a pale pinkish- white blotch. Head and 

 body greenish-brown, with a broad white stripe down each side of the 

 head and thorax, and a black spot on each side at base of abdomen. V. 



Larva p\arplish-brown, punctured with bluish-white, belly dirty 

 greenish-yellow. A broad flesh-coloured lateral streak, on which is a 

 row of seven white rings bordered below with black, and having a large 

 pupil, black above and flesh-coloured below (Horsfield & Moore) . On 

 vine. 



Greece, Turkey, South Russia European specimens rather scarce 

 in collections ; Indian ones common. 



C. BoTSDUVALii (Bruguion) 3'' 2"'. Fir-brown, witk a green band 

 near the costa running from base to tip, at which point it is nearly 

 touched by a narrow green streak running from the hind margin down 

 to the inner mai'gin ; hind-wing black, with an oval white spot at anal 

 angle, slightly tinged with pink (H. S.) 



Jjarva unknown. 



Turkey, Greece. Very rare in collections. Walker thinks that 



this species is a variety of the Indian C. Clotho, the larva ©f which 



feeds on vine. As C Alecto and G. Boisduvalii have been confounded 



under the name of C. cretica, it is better to reject the latter altogether, 



as 8taudinger has done, and employ the nauie Boisduvalii, which is 



open to no such objection. 



{To he continued). 



