i\\iii.\ r.vi'iLKJMD.i:. 93 



Specimens fnni) tin- fi)lli)wiiig locnlitii's Iniw j)assi'd tliri)Uf,'li my hands. — J , ? Hrnzil, Coll. 

 J)ruce; Rio Jam-iro ( Mitrijillin-iiij) and IJnuil, ^, H<if;citii ( Slii-riiM), I!. ;Nr. ; 5, liahia, Cull. 

 Saunders; cT , ? , Colls. Dnico and K Brown; cJ , Amazons, (Joll. Wuliacc ; ^, I'dlccliio Valley 

 t S,il„iii ) H. M. ; ? , Mexico, Honduras (Dyxoii), Coll. Saunders. 



(J var. almost spotless on under surface — Santa Martha (Jioiir/mri/J Coll. Saunders. 



? dwarfed— Hahia. Coll. C. War.l. 



The caterpiJlar of C. I'hllnt, accoriling to Seha, is clotheil with Hictidcr liairs and is of a diily yi'i 

 low colour, decorated with hlack spots and hands ; the chrysalis varieil with hlack and lirown : the 

 perfect insect, according to Ericlison, in " Schombui-gh's Keisen in Briti.scli ( Juiana," occurs near the coast 

 on gra.ss plots in ganleiis and in meadows. /'. Milnnijipr, Cr. may jirove to he a distinct race. 



9-4. ColUdnidfi Thalcstri.t^fifjii. o, 6, 7, 8. 

 cjPapilio (Danaus) Thalcstris, IHiger, Mag:. 1- !>• -*'7. 11. .'51 (1802). 



cJ , $ Colias Thalcstris, lluhncr, Saminl. cxot. Sc-limctt. 2, jjIs. 132 — i:}l. 

 (1806). 



? var. Callidryas Solstitia ? , Butler. Aim. ^t !Maii'. Nat. Ilisl. Itli S., vol. 

 i, p. 203, n. 3 (18G9). 



MdU: Wings above bright sulphur y(.'llow ; frontwings witli hlack points at terminations of ner- 

 vures ; a broad elongate orange band from above costal to submedian nervure ; a conspicuous Itlack sjxjt 

 at end of cell ; liiud wings wth disc golden yellow becoming orange towards mai'gin ; mealy bonier 

 slightly paler: below golden yellow, markings iw in C. Philea, but a submarginal nebulous streak of 

 brown scales from costal nervure to below secoml median branch and the brown marking between 

 second and third nn^dian branches enlarged. 



Frmiili\ Wings above dull orange red varying, in the frontwings especially, to j'ellow ; front- 

 wings with a large black spot at end of cell, a zigzag discal scries and submarginal .series as in C. Phih-a, 

 but united into one patch at apex; hindwings with disc griidually redder to niargin ; six unequal 

 diamond shaped black sj)ots terminating uervures, the first, at apex, minute ; three or four black spots 

 <jn centre of disc ; below golden yellow varied with rosy and lilac scales ; frontwings with an irregidar 

 silvery-inipilled, 1)lack edged purplish spot at end of tell, and a zigzag series of the same colour on disc ; 

 a submarginal series of lilac spots uniting into one patch at apex ; hindwings with large elongated i)ur- 

 plisli patch, enclosing two silver sjwts at end of cell ; a circular series of dark purple discal and basal 

 spots anrl a l.roail submaririnal extern.illy (lentate-sinuate puqiN- Imiid. beginning narMw upon costa near 



