62 Mr. F. Moore's 3Ionograph 



III. A Monograph of the Genus Adolias, a Genus of 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nympha- 

 lidse. By Frederic Moore, Esq., Assist. Museum, 

 Hon. East Ind. Company. 



[Read Oct. 5th, 1857.] 



Being engaged upon the present genus in the compilation of a 

 descriptive " Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the 

 Museum of the Hon. East India Company," and knowing that 

 many of the species of Adolias described by the earlier authors 

 have not been thoroughly worked out, I have endeavoured in 

 the following pages to supply descriptions of some of those which 

 have, hitherto, been imperfectly identified, and also of the new 

 species contained in the various collections in this country, viz., 

 from the Collections of the British Museum, Hon. East India 

 Company, Entomological Society of London, Hopean Collection 

 at Oxford, W. W. Saunders, Esq., J. O. Westwood, Esq., and 

 W. C. Hewitson, Esq., to whom my best thanks are due for the 

 kindness in allowing their specimens to be described in the fol- 

 lowing monograph. 



Genus Adolias, Boisduval. 



Adolias, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Planches, p. 2, t. 3, f. 2 

 (1836); Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's Di- 

 urnal Lep. p. 289. 



Aconthea, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Comp. t. 8, 

 f. 6 (1829). 



Symphcedra, Eidhalia, Cymothoe (pt.), Hiibner. 



Nymphnlis (pt.), Godart. 



Itaiius, E. Doubleday, MS. (1847). 



1. Adolias Aconthea, Cramer. 



S 2 Papilio Aconthea, Cramer, Pap. Exot, ii. t. 134, f. D. E. 



^ F. G. 2 (1779). 

 Nymphalis Aconthea, Godart, Enc. Meih. ix. p. 383. 

 Cymolhu'e Aconthea, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 39. 

 Adolias Aconthea, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Planches, p. 2, 



t. 3, f. 2 (1836); E. Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. 



pt. i. p. 103 ; Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's 



Diurnal Lep. p. 291, n. \. 



