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elongate, edged broadly with white, with dark centre. Reniform 

 upright, kidney shaped, blackish, with fine white annulus. T. p. 

 line angulate opposite the cell. Sub-terminal line white, with a 

 small W mark between veins 3 and 4. Hind wings yellow, with 

 black borders and a well marked discal lunule ; costal margin 

 soiled, as are the veins. Beneath yellowish, with the four lun- 

 ules evident. Fringes of primaries blackish, neatly cut with pale 

 opposite the veins. Expanse 28 mil. 



The white lines on the primaries contrast, and there is a 

 whitish shade on median field between the sub-median fold and 

 median vein. The species resembles as little our Eastern Had- 

 cua inordinata. 



The collections from Washington Tenitory contain many 

 species originally described from California and Vancouver Island 

 Since Mr. Morrison has sent me two of these as new species, I 

 make here a partial list of these forms, so that the attention of 

 those interested may be called to the matter. It seems to me 

 probable that Hadena cyinosa from Washington Territory is only 

 a dark form of Hadena castanca from California. 



Mamestra cuneata, Xylomiges crucialis, 



" cinnabarina, Deva palligera, 



Hadena indirecta, Behrensia conchiformis, 



" divesta, Plusia labrosa, 



" curvata, Actinotia Stewarti. 



" semilunata. ' 



ON PAPILIO ECCLIPSIS LINN. 

 By Arthur G. Butler. 



In part 3 of Papilio, Dr. Hagen calls attention to this species 

 as one requiring identification, and suggests that it may be an 

 insect (allied to Meganostoma cesonia) which remains to be dis- 

 covered. If Dr. Hagen will turn to p. 226 of my " Catalogue of 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera, described by Fabricius," he will find the 

 following note respecting it. " P. ecclipsis, even in Petiver s fig- 

 ure, looks like a manufactured insect, and two cleverly painted 

 specimens in the Linnean cabinet prove it to be so. Petiver de- 

 scribed it as " Pap. sulphureus, lunulis caeruleis," etc. and placed it 

 among his animals of Europe in the index to his work. Linneus, 

 however, gave the locality" in America septemtrionali." 



The specimens in question are stippled with thick body-color, 

 and seen without a lens, might easily have deceived the older 

 authors. In Petiver's collection there is nothing which at all re- 

 sembles his figure ; he has however a specimen of G. Rhamni, 

 which may be the type of P. ecclipsis, washed clean, but it is 

 quite possible that one of the specimens in the Linnean cabinet 

 is Petiver's type. 



British Museum, March 30, 1881. 



