the Sijnonymy of the Genus 0;^yiis. 387 



however, sink genoveva as a direct synonym of zosine, and, in 

 thus overriding my selection of the $ type and in siidving 

 genoveva as a direct synonym, my ^ood frieixl Mr. Waterhoune 

 is entindy io;iiorin<; all nomenchitoi ial rules — and he is ignoring 

 the Cotle, and must not be followed. 



Ogyris zosine duaringa, P>-B. 



This hical race, a wcdl- marked form as to colour, is sunk 

 also as a direct synonyn). The question of a local race will, 

 I suppose, always be a matter of opinion to a certain extent ; 

 in some cases, as in this, it will beaf|uestion of the keenness 

 of tlie eye to colour-ditforences. There is no doubt, how- 

 ever, of the difference of colour in this case; it is quite 

 marked, and the name should stand. Our authors have 

 registered this form as typical zosine zosine, but this is 

 evidently an error — it is quite different to Hevvitsou's type. 



Ogyris zosine magna, B-B. 



This is also sunk as a direct synonym, but the extra- 

 ortlinary part of it is that the authors absolutely re-name the 

 very form under the name zosine araxes; they describe the 

 male as bright purple with the costa near the apex splashed 

 with white. 1 described my magna as rich purplish blue, 

 with the apical tliiid and the apical half of the termen hoary 

 in the male; Avhilst the female is described as having the 

 basal fourth of the primary and the central area extending 

 toward the tornus as metallic green. I describe the same 

 areas as greenish blue, more greenish than in duaringa, and 

 as lustrous greenish ; the types in the former case come 

 from Dimboola and a similar form from Sydney — my types 

 come from Brisbane. From the descriptions it would ap[)ear 

 tliat the two forms must of necessity be the same — knowing 

 the species as well as I do, I feel quite sure they are. 



Four female forms are in nearly all large collections : there 

 is the type-form as indicated by Hewitson, and as selected 

 by me (i)Ut, unfortunately, he figured a male), of the duller 

 purple colour ; there is the pale bright blue lorm named by 

 the same author genoveva ; there is the lustrous greenish 

 form named by mo magna and by ^Vatelhouse and Lyell 

 araxes ; and there is also a rich true-blue form, quite different 

 from genoveva, not purple at all — it is in the British Museum 

 from Townsville and iVoni N.W. Australia, and I suppose it 

 is the form that our authors have called zosine tyi>hon. They 

 are all separable at a glance, and anyone investigating local 



