380 Mr. W. L. Distant on the Genus Terias. 



" Terias cesiope^ M^n." 



Mr. Butler remarks that I have figured as this species a male 

 variety of T. hecahe, which is quite true, and it is strange 

 that though this is considered heterodox to-day, he wrote of 

 that species himself, in a former Teriad paper, " Probably a 

 form of T. hecahey I now come, however, to a less pleasant 

 statement, and one which Mr. Butler must be the first to 

 acknowledge as of a misrepresentative character, when he 

 affirms that, amongst other localities for this form, I have given 

 the " somewhat wide one of continental India," The habitat 

 I gave is '' Continental India ; Bombay." It would surely 

 be quite as correct to say that the *' somewhat wide one " of 

 Mexico is given in the ' Biologia Centrali- Americana,' because 

 the primary division is there given before the smaller habitats 

 which it comprises. I did not imply that Mr. Butler was 

 unaware that Bombay was in continental India, but only 

 followed the usual monographic method of giving the habitat 

 of the species. Mr. Butler speaks of the "true T. cesiope^''^ 

 but surely this must be difficult to define, as the species is 

 clearly varietal on his own authority (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, 

 p. 7). He there also states that the species has been received 

 from Cachar, N.E. India ; but he now implies that it is con- 

 fined to China, Formosa, and Hainan. 



" Terias sari, Horsf." 



Mr. Butler doubts that I have correctly figured the typical 

 form of T. sari, as I have affirmed, and thinks " it far more 

 likely " that a Bornean male specimen in the British Mu- 

 seum is typical of the species. I did not make this determina- 

 tion upon any opinion of my own, but from a comparison with 

 a specimen labelled typical in the collection of Mr. F. Moore, 

 and upon the authority of that lepidopterist, who, as is well 

 known, was once intimately associated with the work of Dr. 

 Horsfield. Mr. Butler can easily examine that specimen for 

 himself, for it is in the collection of a mutual friend, at whose 

 house we have spent many pleasant hours together, and to 

 whom both he and I are indebted for much information 

 regarding oriental Lepidoptera. 



I now take leave of a discussion which possesses little 

 scientific value. My friend Mr. Butler holds the proud 

 position of being delegated to look after the national collection 

 of Lepidoptera, and seeks conscientiously to fulfil his duty 

 by industriously describing and naming the specimens placed 



