324 Mr. E. G. Joseph on the Rhopalocera 



broad sense, comprising the Ithomiinas, the genera Lycorea 

 and Ituna of the Danainse, and the Heliconiinse. Although 

 in the form of rough notes and very difficult to disentangle, it 

 is a model of accuracy. It records the whole of BurchelPs 

 notes written on the labels accompanying the specimens, but 

 apparently none of the facts to be found in his manuscript 

 note-books." Numbers are not assigned to the species, as 

 they are in the lists written by an assistant. Westwood' s 

 brief accurate descriptions seize upon the characteristic points 

 and frequently enable us to identify the individual specimens. 

 Good examples of this are to be found in 1296-1300. 



With the single exception of Eueides tales pythagoras, the 

 species of the Heliconiine genus Eueides are included in West- 

 wood's list of " BurchelPs Acrcea &c." The numbers and 

 data in this list are written in a clerk's handwriting, the 

 names or notes being inserted by Westwood himself. The 

 data of Eueides aliphera aliphera and E. lybia lybia — the 

 former very imperfectly copied into the above list — were also 

 completely recorded by Westwood on a separate slip of paper. 

 In the case of E. tales pythagoras Westwood was evidently at 

 first misled by the mimetic resemblance, for he separated this 

 species from its genus and placed it beside the Heliconius 

 models in the list of " Heliconidae." He ultimately recog- 

 nized its true relationship and added the correct name. 



E. G. Joseph. 



Oxford, Dec. 4, 1909. 



Heliconiinjs. 

 1. Genus. Heliconius, Linne. 



Section I. Opisogymni. 



Cohort i. Silvanifobmes. 



Heliconius narcau narcoza, Godt. 



Bz. 5&0. I. [21. 10. 25]. = 1284. Minas Geraes. "Pap- 

 \ilio\. In a rossa at Discoberto, and along a channel 

 (on the margin of the forest) which conducts water to 

 the house." BurchelPs manuscript catalogue of Bra- 

 zilian plants records that he collected botanical specimens 

 " on an Excursion into the Province of Minas Geraes, 

 between 7th October 1825, and 15 Nov r 1825." This 

 Catalogue, which exists in the Kew library, will be here- 

 after quoted as " Cat. pi. Braz. MSS.," while passages 

 extracted from it will be indicated by an asterisk, thus *. 



29. 10. 25. = 1285. Minas Geraes. " In the forest on the 



