2(Xj [Febi-uary, 



Note on Mr. Sctidders ''Remarks on the old genus Callidrt/as." — In the Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. xvii, part ii, p. 206, is a short paper 

 by Mr. Scudder reriewiiig the N. Amcriciiii epecies included in my Monograph, and 

 adding the description of a " new species ?" which he does me the honour to name 

 after mc. 



With Mr. Scudder's usual anxiety to sub-divide genera, he begins by splitting 

 off C. Pyranthe, Linn., as a distinct genus from Catopsilia, and type oi'Murtia, Hiibncr. 

 I can only say that the characters which he gives to distinguish it from Catopsilia 

 do not hold good in a series of specimens ; it is easy to pick out an example 

 of a species with short antennge, and compare it with an example of another species 

 having long antennse, but the point to consider is whether this character will stand 

 when we examine forty or fifty of each species. 



The male of P. Agaritlie is often larger, and sometimes smaller, than it is repre- 

 sented in my figure ; it does not differ so much in the mealy border above, as in tlie 

 central streak below. As I have not given a short comparative diagnosis of the four 

 orange males in my Monograph, I append them here : — 



1. Wings below with zig-zag discal markings. 



1«. Secondaries with silver spots below. 



laa. Primaries above with black expanded spots at terminations of nervures, 

 generally uniting into a continuous marginal border... PAcbJm Hersilia. 

 \ah. Primaries above with small black dots at terminations of nervures. 



Phathis rorata. 

 V>. Secondaries without silver spots below Phcebis Argante, 



2. Wings below with discal markings replaced by a straight oblique line or streak : 



otherwise as in the preceding species Phoebis Agarithe. 



These characters will always distinguish the males of the above species : the 

 females are as usual quite unlike each other, and therefore need no such tabular 

 diagnoses to distinguish them. 



The figure of C. Eubule, 3 , "was taken from a very good example. I had no 

 need to take my drawings from rubbed specimens, as suggested by Mr. Scudder, 

 since I had the run of all the fine collections in this country, and had about 500 

 Callidrgades in my house at one time. 



The C. Cypris of Edwards' List, and quoted by Mr. Scudder, will probably turn 

 out to be IJetura virgo, mihi, ^ . 



Apkrissa Putleri, Scudder, is the Callidryas Boisduvali of Felder, between 

 which and C. Statira Mr. Salvin has a perfectly transitional series, as mentioned in 

 my Monograph Lep. Exot., p. 143. — A. O. Butleb, British Museum: lOth 

 November, 1875. 



Kate on Lyccena Galathea, Blanch. — In 1865, Mr. Moore described and figured 

 in Proc. Zool Soc. an Indian species of Lycana mider the name of Pol. Nyeula. 

 This he now believes to be identical with Lye. Galathea, Blanch. (1844). In this 

 opinion I concur. I believe, also, that Lye. metallica, Feld. (1865) is only a 

 synonym of L. Galathea, in spite of the differences on the imder-side of the cj , as 

 figured by Felder. Felder docs not figure the under-side of the 9 , but his description 

 applies accurately to the under-side of L. Nptula, ^ , so that I think it probable 



