162 Mr. W. J. Kaye's Catalogue of the 



Family NYMPHALIDiE. 



Subfamily BANAIN^E. 



1. Danais archippus. 



Papilio archipp'LLS,^^])., Ent. Syst.,iii, 1, p. 49, n. 50(1793). 



The specimens from Trinidad are very richly dark 

 coloured and have the marginal band to the hind- wing 

 very dark and very little spotted. 



Mange. Throughout the American Continent and 

 West Indies. 



2. Danais eresimus. 



Papilio eresimus, Cram., Pap. Exot., ii, 1. 175, G. H. (1779). 



Specimens from Trinidad are uniformly with a dark 

 broad marginal band to hind- wing. Similar specimens 

 occur in other West Indian islands and in Venezuela. 

 Brazilian specimens have the band extremely narrow, 

 frequently almost obsolete. 



Range. Venezuela ; Guiana. 



Subfamily LYGOREAN^. 



The inclusion of the genera Lycorea and Ituna in the 

 subfamily Banainie does not appear satisfactory on the 

 following grounds. There is no raised patch in the male 

 on vein 2 of the hind-wing ; the cell is much larger and 

 longer; the wings are much more elongated and the 

 antennae have the last joints yellow. 



The subfamily forms a sort of link between Danainm 

 and Ithomiinm. 



3. Lycorea ceres. (PI. XVIII, figs. 4, 4a.) 



Fajnlio cei-es, Cram., Pap. Exot., i, t. 90, A. (1779). 

 Range. For the type Guiana ; Amazons. 



Var. ATERGATIS, Doubl. and Hew., Gen. D.L., t. 16, f. 1 



(1847). 



Range. Central America; Venezuela. 



After considerable investigation there can be no doubt 

 that L. atergatis is only a form of ceres (maintaining ca^es 

 as the type, because of its having been described so long 

 ago and not because it is scientifically the older species). 

 In Trinidad ceres and atergatis so run into one another that 

 they must be all of one stock. Going southwards the ceres 



