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of Tachyris celestina, Boisd. Until quite recently the British 

 Mnsoum possessed no specimens of Fabricius's insert, except the 

 type (which was not included in the general Collection). The 

 specimens that appeared in the Collection as C. mdania were 

 Pi ris (< 'aiophaga) zoe of Vollenhoven, the Batchian form of C. 

 jacquinotii, Luc. Meanwhile, the true /'. melanin of Fabricius 

 had been re-described by Miskin in L888as Tachyris asteria. 



•• .Mr. ( ;. A. Waterhouse lias now sent home specimens vi hich 

 are undoubtedly of the species described by Fabricius and 

 represented by Donovan. It is said by Mr. Waterhouse to 

 be rare and no doubl very local. Four of these specimens 

 are in the British Museum, and a pair, male and female, 

 here exhibited, have been presented to the Hope Department. 

 Thesi were captured at Kuranda, uear Cairns, in North 

 Queensland. Fabricius'e type is in bad condition, hut there 

 can be no possible doubl thai Mr. Waterhouse's specimens 

 have been correctly identified. 



- N"V. thai the true mdania has al last come to light it is 



n to be not a Catophaga allied to ega or pavlina, but a 



Tachyris belonging to the group which contain- T. celestina 



and '/'. nero. It i- a peculiarly handsome and distinctively 



marked butterfly ; and it i- probable that only ite presumable 

 rarity, and the battered condition of the type specimen, have 

 permitted the ei identifications which have been cur- 



rent for so many y< ars." 



Wednesday, November 1st, 1911. pxv 



\ BICAM SPBOIBS OF A.OBABA. Mr. II. ELTRINGHAM ex- 

 hibited specimens of African A.craeas, to show thai wide 



differences of colour and pattern may occur in a single Species, 

 and conversely, thai certain species which can scarcely be 

 distinguished by their outward appearance are nevertheless 

 very distinct, as shown by the structure of the male armature. 

 Thus A, astrigera, ButL, from E. Africa merges gradually 

 into the same author's A. pseudolycia } through an inter- 

 mediate form named f. brumnea. A. astrigera is a brilliant 

 orange-and scarlet form, whilst pst udolycia is black-and-white. 



