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We have heard from Mons. le Moult that the collectors 

 have instructions not to catch typical melpomene, and that 

 in his own experience very many more melpomene should 

 be estimated for than what we did in our former paper. 

 It is unfortunate that any check was put on the collectors 

 from the scientific standpoint. The remarkable fact, how- 

 ever, remains that of the two collections there is very 

 close agreement, and that, whatever the correct propor- 

 tion of typical melpomene may be. the addition would be 

 approximately the same for both collections. Prof. 

 E. B. Poulton has made the interesting observation to 

 me that probably the cybele type of hind-wing with the 

 short red streak would on the wing be much more likely 

 to be mistaken for the all-black hind-wing than the 

 thelxiope-stveaked hind-wing. It is clear, if this is true, 

 that the fully -streaked forms are in a considerable minority 

 and not at all like Para, where they are practically the 

 only forms found. 



Those forms are rarest that represent the most distant 

 geographical races. Thus ab. penelope occurs as a race in 

 Bolivia on the Rio Juntas, ab. rufolimbata is from the 

 Tapajos River, ab. timareta occurs as a race in East 

 Ecuador at St a Inez and elsewhere. This last form has 

 not yet been seen in the French Guiana collections, but 

 by inference it should occur, even if very rarely, as it is 

 only the representative of penelope without any red on 

 fore- or hind-wing. The penelope forms graduate into 

 vicina forms, the latter occurring as a race on the Upper 

 Amazon at Pebas and Teffe. 



Several aberrations are of special interest and afford 

 fresh connecting links. There is one specimen of the 

 melpina form, which shows three yellow subapical spots. 

 This suggests at once the spotting of such species (or 

 races of melpomene) as hermogenes or galanthus. Although 

 we have now received in all 3,666 melpomene from 

 French Guiana, this is the only specimen showing such 

 spotting. 



Three new forms, one of the eybele section and two of 

 the melpomene section, we think should be named as they 

 are representative of already named similar forms but 

 with different hind-wing. The first, which we call faivrei, 

 after .Mons. Kaivre. is complementary to negrovda and 

 negroidens. A second form of the melpomene hind-wing 

 section which we call compacta is complementary to fcMstalia 



