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riinnot do, whilst what is called a tnio sj^'cii-s might ilo it Init will not, hence it follows that the local 

 I'onu is in this n's])ect the better sjiecii-s of the two: in the present instance, I consider that the tawny 

 Charaxi'ii, which an- locally constant, have a greater right to specific distinction than liave many of the 

 memlwrs of that variable Sulj-family the Ilfliconimv which arc divided (perhaps rightly) by the tint of 

 a wing or the colonring of an antiMina. I liave seen a vast number of C'/inraxfJi Pna///ioti, collected by 

 one gentleman in IJonibay, and none of them exhibited any tendency to vary ; Mr. Walker purchased 

 the residuum of Mr. Lowe's Bornean Collection and obtained sixt<;en male specimens of C. Ilurpax, 

 which I have examined and found all the character constant ; in many of the Chinese sliow-boxes one 

 sees shattered specimens of C. Polijxvna exhiliiting no variation ; and lastly, all Felder's species are ea.sily 

 recognizable as soon as specini'iw -xy ulitained from his localities. 



GENUS lMIIL()(;.\'(i.M.\. W.sticuod. 



JPhiloffnoma Falcato, .sp. ti.Jifj. /. 



Affinis P. Lic/iiiri ; alee supra fulvo-feiTugineai ; apice anticarum late nigro 

 Itilvo iiiaciilato ; litiira duplifi disco-coUiilari nigra; posticai costa fuscpsonto ; 

 liucolis diKibiis subcostalibus, macula apicali fiilvo-notata, pimcto subapicali lu- 

 uulisquo subquatuor submarginali1)u.*<, nigris ; corpus fusccscons : alae subtus 

 fuscoe, linea media communi obliqua riifb-fusea introrsum albido-limitata ; lineis 

 (luabus valde irregularibus transversis; antieae costa albicante; areis costali, ba- 

 sali et externa nitentibus ; punetis duobus apud basin, lineola basali, et duabus 

 pone eellam, nigris ; jiostieie bitriente basali uitente : eori)us dilute I'uscescens ; 

 ex]). alar. une. 2, liii. t. 



Gold Coast. Coll. Swanzy. Ashanti. B.jM. 



Not uncomnKin in ("ullections ; most nearly allied to P. Lkhnu, but very distinct. 



C.KXTS HKTF.KorilRO.V. Bo!M,in,l. 

 1. JL'lcrochrod Mephistophclfs, jig. 4. 



lleteroelu'oa ^lepliistoplieles, Butler, Cist. Eat. i. p. 7 (1S(5!)). 



Alse supra nigro-fusete, i'aseiis submarginalibus nigris ; antiere faseia 

 obliqua fidva; postieic macula magna media rotundata et altera costali parva, 

 all)is : corpus nigrum : alae sid)tus fen'ugineae, fasciis duabus cellas transer- 

 i-antibus violaceis nigro marginatis ; anticie maculis (jUMluor subapicalibus 



