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inger's statement that T. hahneli occurs in Cuba is no doubt due to 

 the fact that he was misled by the strong superficial resemblance 

 between the two insects under consideration, and so also is the phrase 

 [n Godman's brief Latin diagnosis " capite et prothorace viridi lavafis,^' 

 although the specimen labeled by him does not show the slightest 

 trace of this feature. With the description of T. vespasiiis Fabricius, 

 under which Kirby has put T. cassander, this insect does not agree, 

 nor is it cassander, as has been pointed out. 



I should have been glad to avoid the creation of a new name in 

 this genus, and have vainly endeavored to assign the insect under 

 consideration to one of the species described from Cuba by Lucas, by 

 Herrich-Schaeffer, and older authors, but have failed. None of their 

 descriptions seem to apply to it. 



Genus Melanthes Mabille. 



50. Melanthes otreus (Cramer) var. brunnea (Herrich-Schaeffer). 



(Plate XXXL figs. 3-5-) 

 Papilio otreus Cramer, Papillons Exotiques, IV, 1782, p. 78, PL 328, fig. F. . 

 Oileides zephodes Hubner, Samml. Exot. Schmett., II, 1820-1824, PI. 364, figs. 



1-4(9). 

 Cf. Nisoniades brunnea Herrich-Schaeffer, Corr.-Blatt Regensb., XVIII, 1864, 



p. 172 (cf ). 

 Cf. Achlyodes jamaicensis Moschler, Verhandl. Zool. Gesellsch. Wien, 1878, p. 226. 



The insect figured by Hubner as Oileides zephodes has been con- 

 sistently identified by older and many later authors, among these 

 Herrich-Schaeffer and Mabille, with the species named Papilio otreus 

 by Cramer {vide supra). Cramer gives Surinam as the habitat of the 

 species. I have not seen a specimen from that country, but it may be 

 found there. The figure given by Cramer is exceedingly poor, and it 

 requires a stretch of the imagination to make it out to be the same 

 insect as that figured by Hubner, whose illustrations likewise are in 

 this case none of the best. The figures of Oileides zephodes given by 

 Hiibner, while intended to represent the male and the female insect, 

 were drawn from two females, as we are informed by Herrich-Schaeffer, 

 who at the time he wrote his description of Nisoniades brunnea had 

 the insects used by Hubner in his possession. Herrich-Schaeffer 

 among other things states that he has in his possession a female 

 sent to him from Cuba by Dr. Gundlach, which is not specifically 

 distinguishable from otreus. Mabille erected his genus Melanthes 



