356 . Mr. Roland Trimen on 



Jmiunia Cloantha. 



Fapilio Cloantha, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. 93, pi. 

 cccxxxviii. f. A. B. 



No example of this butterfly has been sent by Mr. 

 Bowker, but he informs me that he met with the 

 species in the Maluti Mountains, " not far from the 

 heads of the St. John's River, but within the watershed 

 of the Orange River." 



Genus Diadem A, Boisduval. 



Diadema Misippiis. 



Vapilio Misippus, Linn. S. N. ii. 707. 



It has not been without some hesitation that I have 

 followed Hopffer, Wallace, and Butler in altering the 

 name of this butterfly from its generally known title of 

 IJolina ; because it scarcely admits of a doubt that Linne 

 included both this species and D. Aiuje, Cram., under 

 his Bolina. As, however, it is indisputable (as pointed 

 out by Hopffer, in Peters' " Reise nach Mossambique," 

 p. 385, published in 1862) that the only detailed descrip- 

 tion of Bolina given by Linnt' (iMus. Lud. Ulr. p. 295), 

 applies to the butterfly named both Aiujc and Lasinassa 

 by Cramer, and as, moreover, the only figure which 

 Linne cites is that of Clerck's Icones (pi. xxi. f. 2), 

 which represents the latter insect; I suppose that ento- 

 mologists are in strictness bound to abide by the great 

 naturalist's own fullest diagnosis of his species Bolina. 

 In 1867, I referred to the Linnean Cabinet, in the hope 

 of determining the (juostion; but I found both species 

 associated as one, though the only specimen bearing the 

 label '' Bolina," was one of D. Au<je, Auct. Mr. Wallace 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 279) is mistaken in stating that 

 Cramer was the first to quote Linnu and Clerck for the 

 species Bolina, Auct., Drury having done so in the first 

 volume of his " Illustrations," published in 1770, nine 

 years before the appearance of the " Papillons Exoti- 

 ques." Cramer, indeed (i. 102), cites Drury's figures 

 as well as that in Clerck's Icones. Hopfter {loc. cit.) 



