in the Joicey Collection. 85 



the type of the species markii, and fig. 5 is another species 

 which Butler named davisi. This was all correct, till 

 Staudinger, not knowing of Butler's description, described 

 this same insect as hewitsoni in Exot. Tag. i. p. 123 (1888). 

 Staudinger also gave the name wallacei to Hewitson's figs. 2, 

 3, 6, but quite unjustifiably. G. davisi now seems to have 

 several local races, of which I describe below two as new. 

 The G. refulgens may be a race of markii. C. batesi is most 

 probably a distinct species, with the hind margin of the hind 

 wing bluish green and the broad apical area of fore wing of 

 the same colour. The ? ? of batesi and markii may be 

 distinguished by these characters and also by the amount of 

 yellow at the base of the hind wing. Batesi has a large 

 yellow area stretching halfway across the cell, while markii 

 has a very small amount and much broken up with brown. 

 The sjaionymy of these three species is as follows : — 



Callithea markii, Hew. Ex. Butt., Call. i. publ. 1862 (plate 

 dated 1857, ined.). 



Callithea wallacei, Stgr. Ex. Tag. i. p. 123 (1888). 



Callithea markii ( = tvallacei), Rob. in Seitz. Mac. Lep. v. p. 491 (1915). 



Hab. Upper Amazons, Teffe. 



Callithea batesi, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. i. pi. xi. (1850). 



Callithea batesi, Hew. Ex. Butt., Callithea, pi. i. figs. 1,4 ("1862) ; Rob. 

 in Seitz. Mac. Lep. v. p. 491 (1915). 



Hab. Upper Amazons. 



Callithea davisi, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. 

 p. 123 (1877). 



Callithea markii, Hew. (part.), Exot. Butt., Call. pi. i. tig. 5 (1862). 

 Callithea heioitsoni, Stgr. Exot. Tag. i. p. 123 (1888) ; Rob. in Seitz. 

 Mac. Lep. v. p. 491 (1915). 



Hab. Colombia, Upper Amazons, Peru. 



This species has at least three separate races : — 

 Gallithea davisi davisi, Butl. 

 Colombia. 



Callithea davisi croceus, Kaye. 

 N. Peru, Contamana, Rio Ucayali. 



Callithea davisi tirapatensis } Kaye. 



IS. Peru, Tirapata. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. iv. 7 



