2 ^ LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS TELLERVO. 



Hamadryas^ nee. Hiibner, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep., 

 p. 91 (1832); Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 134 (1848); 

 Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S83, p. 253; Schatz, 

 Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 91 (1886). 



We have been obliged to rename Boisduval's genus Hama- 

 dryas, because that name had already been used by Hiibner 

 for our common Peacock-Butterfly {Papilio Jo, Linn.) ; so 

 we have named it Tellervo, which is the name of the daughter 

 of Tapio, the Finnish god of the forests. 



Some authors regard this genus as properly belonging to the 

 DanaincE, while others prefer to consider it as an Old World re- 

 presentative of the otherwise exclusively Tropical American 

 Sub-family Ithomiincc. 



The species of Tellervo are found in the Moluccas, New 

 Guinea, Australia, &c. They are small black Butterflies, 

 measuring less than two inches in expanse, with rounded wings 

 and clear white markings. They are all very similar, and might 

 easily be mistaken for species belonging to the genus Neptis 

 in the Nymphalince. The type is 



TELLERVO ZOILUS. 



Papilio zoilus, Fabr., Syst. Ent, p. 4S0, no. 163 (1775). 

 Hamadryas zoilus, Boisd., Voy. Astrolabe, Lep., p. 91 (1832); 

 Doubl. and Hew., Gen. Diurn. Lepid., pi. 18*, fig. 1 (1847). 



A black Butterfly found in Australia, with three large white 

 spots on the fore-wings, and the disc of the hind-wings white. 



TELLERVO MISORIENSIS. 

 {Plate VI. , Fig. 3.) 

 Hamadryas mysoriensis, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett., i., p. 54 

 (1885) 



