240 Mr, H. "W. Bates on the Papilionidse 



closely resemble each other; so much so, that one, AJcmeone of 

 Bengal, was considered by Cramer to be identical with Statira S ; 

 the latter being, as we have seen, the most numerous and migratory 

 of all the American species. 



Genus Tekias. 

 Swains. Zool. Illustr. 



1. T. Arbela, Hubn. 

 cJ . Eiirema Arbela, Hiibn. Zutr. 641, 642. 



Ega and Para. 



2. T. Paulina, n. s. 



S . Expanse 2". Wings elongate, somewhat uaiTOw, their outer margins 

 rounded, sulphur-yellow. Above : fore wing with an outer border, broadest 

 at the apex, gradually nan'owing and terminating before reaching the hind 

 angle, slightly trisinuate on its inner edge, brown-black ; hind wing spot- 

 less. Beneath : fore wing yellow as on the upper sm-face, the costal margin 

 irrorated with red at the base, the termination of the nervm-es on the costa 

 black, and three spots behind the apex rufous : hind wing j^ellow as on the 

 upper surface, sprinkled with dusky atoms, four or five on the costa being 

 much larger; a large transverse spot between the costa and subcostal 

 nervTu-e, and two near the abdominal edge, one being near the base, and 

 the other towards the anal angle, also dusky. Antennae black, head 

 rufous-brown, palpi elongate. 



5. Larger, 2" 2'". Colour pure white, outer border as in the S- 

 Beneath the same, except that the apex of the fore wings has larger rufous 

 spots. 



A distinct and elegant species, taken on flowers on the borders of 

 the forest, St. Paulo. 



3. T. Deva, Doubled. 



$ . P. Agave, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1. 193. 599 (not Agm^e, Cram.). 

 ? . T. Deva, Dbld. & Hew. Gen. D. L. p. 78. 7. 



c?. Expans. 1" 8'". ^6ore : fore wing obtuse, gamboge-yellow ; costal 

 border dusky, an outer border broad at the apex of the costa, gradually 

 narrowing to the hind angle, its inner edge with many shallow sinua- 

 tions, silky violet-black ; the base with two short dusky lines : hind wing 

 rounded, white, slightly tinged with sulphur-yellow, the outer margin 

 with a naiTOW border, sometimes reduced to a series of spots, blackish. 

 Beneath : fore wing pale yellow, spotless, sometimes whitish on the disk ; 

 hind wing pale yellow, sometimes whitish on the disk, two small black 

 spots at the end of the cell, and a waved dusky irregular belt across the 

 wing, sometimes obliterated. 



The description of Fabricius applies well to the 5 : it may be 



