1 1(> FAMILY I'AI'IIJOMD.K. 



I'Xteriial half (fdmiing mcnly niva) white, tintcil witli .sniplmr-yellow on the costal margin and with 

 iiL'hre on outer niai-gin ; liimlwings greyish oclireous, huconiing sulphHr-yellow ahove median nervuiv ; 

 mealy horder white ; helow gi-eenish ochreous, the anal area of frontwings heing whitish and the 

 liasal half of discoidal cell sulphur-yellow ; a rosy spot at hase ; hindwings wth two small silver-centred 

 purple-ringed spots jilaecd o})liquely from end of cell; five grey discal dashes, placed above first sul> 

 costal, radial and median hranches ; a rosy spot at base, and a ftw scales of same colour near base ami 

 lietween costal and subcostal nerves. 



Fi iiiii/r. Wings above ochreous, deepest at base, the frontwings becoming gradually paler exter- 

 nally ; a large lilack spot at end of cell, and a small angidated marking between second and third 

 median branches ; apical half of costa a broad apical patch anil an irregularly dentated broad border to 

 outer margin black ; hindwings with costa j>ale ; five well-defined une([ual black spots tenniuating 

 nervures on outer margin ; below, basal area i)ale ochreous, the discoidal cell and costa of frontwings 

 ileeper coloured ; external area pearly ; frontwings with a large rosy jniriilish zoned spot at end of cell ; 

 a series of seven more or less connected ])urplish discal spots placed irregidarly beyond cell ; outer 

 margin broadly rosy becoming ])ur])lish internally ; a few rosy scales at base ; hiinhrings with two 

 silver-centred spots from end ni' cell ; surnmudcd extirnally by a discal series of seven purjjlish 

 markings, six diliuseil ]un'jilish sjints terminating nervures on outer margin ; a rosy si)ot at base. 



Localities— cJ , ? , Haiti (Tir,;-,l!r), Colls. 1;.:M., E. Ilmwn, and Salvin ; ? , Porto Rico. Coll. 

 Saunders. 



Dr. Boi.sduval's premature conclusion resiiecting tliis species has been tlie eau.se of cousidendde 

 c()nfusion. Poey (in the Hist. Nat. de Cuba, 1, p. 196, 1851) publishes the following remarks:— 

 " Mr. Boisduval has referred to the female of this s])ecies (C. Orhis) the Gifhix Gchtrtiami of Swainson; 

 lie, however, retains my name, whicli is later, placing that of Swainson in the synonymy ; tlie authority 

 of Mr. Boisduval is of the greater weight because he is one of those who have, in our time, been most 

 indefatigable in the study of th(^ Lejiidopt(^ra, and 1 suspect gooil reasons have not been wanting for his 

 acting as he has done; tlie l'oIl<iwing have occunvd to me. There are many species of the Eiilmlf and 

 Orlm group whoso females do not exhibit any dilference, and the species can only be satisfactorily 

 di.stinguished when one knows the male :* I my.^elf, if unable to shew the male, female, caterpillar, and 

 chry.salis, cuuld not .se]iaratc (Mi/k from Kiilii//c. 'I'liis may be seen in the Piiiiihiik, mIiIcIi Swain.son 



* No statement more surprising than this could liave been made ; the EuhuU and Orhis giouj s being quite dis- 



linet, and tlie males tlirmigliout the genus licing far more similar than the females. — .\. G. B. 



