Monogmph of the genus CatocJirmo'ps Boisduval. 311) 



Fabricius publi.shed in 1775 his Systema Entomologiae, 

 and on page 526 described jmrsimon as follows : — 



" Parshnon. 349. P.P.R. alis integris, fuscis, subtus cinereis, 

 albo undatis ; posticis basi ])unc1is ocellaribus nigris, apice ocello. 



" Habitat in Sierra Leon Africae. Mus. Banks. 



" Major. Antennae albo-annulatae, clava fulva, Alae omncs 

 supra fuscae, immaciilatae, subtus cinereae, macula media reni- 

 formi fasciisque posticis lunularibus albidis : posticae ad basin 

 punctis quinque atris, annulo albo cinctis ct ad angulum ani ocellus- 

 atcr, annulo antice rxifo, postice aureo cinctus. 



" Variat supra alis anticis macula media nigra et posticis lunulis 

 apicis albis maculaque rufa." 



In 1787 he (Fabricius) merely catalogues the species in 

 his Mantissa on p. 77, Clas. vi, giving only the first brief 

 description word lor word, except that he ends it with 

 " apiceque ocello " instead of " apice ocello " ; but in 1793 

 (Entomologia Systematica) he repeats his description in full 

 on p. 303, with no further amendments. 



From this three points come out prominently : first that 

 the species is without tails, secondly that the upperside is 

 brown, and thirdly that the underside has five black spots 

 at the base of the secondaries. This description was there- 

 fore not taken from the female (a very palpable female) in 

 the Banks collection at the British Museum, for that speci- 

 men has such a strong and largish suffusion of blue on the 

 upperside that it would have been quite impossible not to 

 notice, whilst it has four basal black spots, not five. This 

 specimen cannot therefore be taken for a type. In 1782, 

 however. Stoll pubhshed Vol. iv. of Cramers' Papilio Exoti- 

 ques, in which he described and figured at p. 177 and Plate 

 379, figs, kji, his Papilio celaevs from the coast of Guinea. 



Hitherto parsimon has been identified either as a blue or 

 brown insect either with tails or without, and by some 

 authors as mere aberrations of one species. My researches 

 with the genitalia prove, I think, that the tailed and tailless 

 insects are two species, not one, and also that the blue and 

 the brown butterflies are likewise two species not one, and 

 it remains for us to determine which is the insect that 

 Fabricius described. Aurivillius is evidently unable to 

 throw any light on the matter as intimated in his Ehopalo- 

 cera Aethiopica, so that I am thrown entirely on my own 

 investiffations, and I have come to the definite conclusion 



