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dontia leporina Richardson, which, though it had not priority, was 

 first coupled with a truly recognizable description from the animal 

 itself. On similar grounds Mr. Scudder would have been justified in 

 rejecting the Fabrician names. As a matter of interest to Lepidopte- 

 rists, I produce these two descriptions (kindly copied for me by Mr. 

 Scudder) which have remained so long unnoticed and unrecognized : 



[Fabricius, Ejitomologia Systematica, Tom. ili., pars 1, p. 228.] 



Lycaon, 714. — P. S. Alis dentatis, anticls fuscis, flavo alboque maculatis, posti- 

 cis ferrugineis, ocellis sex eaecis ; subtus variegatis, ocellis octo. 

 Papilio Lycaon. Jon. fig. pict. 4, tab. 17, fig. 1. 

 Habitat , Mus. Dom. Drury. 



Corpus medium, fuscum abdomnis lateribus fulvis. Al;e anticaj supra fuscte ; 

 flavo alboque maculatie ocelloque cajco atro iride rufa ; subtus basi flavae, fusco macu- 

 lat£e, apice fascse maculis tribus albis ocellisque duobus atris iride flava, anterior! 

 pupila alba, posteriori cteco. Striga marginalis fiava. Posticaj basi obscure striga e 

 maculis quinque flavis, apice rufis, maculis sex ocellaribus, atris. Subtus flavo fus- 

 coque variegatfc, ocellis, octo atris, iride flava pupillaque cterulea [p. 229.] 



Herse, 718. P. S. Alis dentatis fusco ferrugineis : anticis albopunctatis, posticis 

 utrinque ocellis, septem csecis. [p. 230.] 



Papilio Herse. Jon. fig. pict. 4, tab. 7, fig. 2. 



Habitat , Dom. Drury. 



Corpus fusco ferrugineum. AI.t antic* obscure ferruginea^, pone medium fascia e 

 maculis sex punctisque quatuor apicis albis, subtus pallidiores. Posticaj fusco ferru- 

 gineai ocellis septemnigris iride ferruginea : secundo tertioque pupilla ferruginea, reli- 

 quis Cfficis. Subtus pallidiores ocellis septem cceruleis iride flava, annulo nigro. 



It will be seen that, aside from minor shortcomings, the difference 

 in average size between the two species is not stated ; nothing is said 

 of the under side of the bodies ; no sexual distinctions are given ; 

 while the description of the spots on the primaries of Herse as white 

 is well calculated to mislead, for in all specimens which I have seen 

 they are distinctly bright ferruginous or " ochry-yellow," as Boisduval 

 describes them. The figure from which the description was made, if 

 it represents our species, must be incorrect, or must have been made 

 from an etiolated specimen. As to the number of the spots, it varies 

 on the primaries; and on the secondaries, while in both species the 

 seven ocellar spots are always distinct inferiorly, the first and last are 

 often, one or both, partly or entirely obsolete superiorly, so as to 

 leave but five or six. More generally six are visible in the c? and five 

 only in the ?. The eighth inferior spot in Lycaon^ as described by 

 Fabricius, can only refer to the small, more or less obsolete, and al- 

 most always simple, oval spot on the middle of the inner border. 



It is doubtful if, without the drawings, these Fabrician species 

 could have been satisfactorily determined ; so that Boisduval can not 

 be blamed for redescribing them. We should be justified in ignoring^ 



