collected by W. J. Burchell in Brazil. 1 75 



Hew., which possesses a typical Adelpha pattern, is the 

 model, and that Chlorippe linda, Drury, which departs so 

 much from the true Chlorippe pattern, is the mimic. 

 Another point worthy of notice is the prolonging of the white 

 band of the hind wing well into the fore wing in Burchell's 

 third specimen of Chlorippe linda, caught (25. 8. 27) two 

 years earlier a good deal further south near the Rio Pardo. 

 On this very date Burchell caught a specimen of Adelpha 

 nr. abia (no. 601), in which a noticeable feature is that the 

 white band is prolonged well into the fore wing. Although 

 this latter species is much smaller than Adelpha nea, it 

 seems possible that its presence in the south influences the 

 southern Chlorippe linda by drawing it away from its northern 

 model, Adelpha nea, in this one characteristic. 



It should be noted that the mimicry does not extend to the 

 undersides, which are very different. 



Adelpha erotia, Hew., form of or species very near. 



Bz. 9. 3. 26. = 556. Bio de Janeiro. 



Westwood's date agrees. He had named this Heterochroa 

 lerna. The generic name is a synonym of Adelpha, and is 

 used in the British Museum. 



No. 556 appears to be nearest to two specimens from 

 British Guiana in the Godman-Salvin Collection, and it 

 resembles in a lesser degree a long series from 8. Paulo, 

 Paraguay, &c. unnamed in the same collection. Burchell's 

 specimen is perhaps the same as A. phylacides, Stdgr., from 

 the Upper Amazons, also in Godman-Salvin Collection. In 

 the British Museum the nearest approach to it is A. thesprotia } 

 Feld., which most resembles the Godman-Salvin specimens 

 from Paraguay. 



Adelpha cocala } Cram. 



31. 1. 26. = 557. Bio de Janeiro. (As 474.) 



Westwood's date agrees. This he had named Heterochroa 

 Cocala, var. 



Adelpha cytherea, Linn. 



Bz. 191.I. [8. 9. 25]. = 558. Rio de Janeiro. " Papilio. 

 Along the Aqueduct." 



4,11.25.2=559,560. Minas Geraes. At Francisco 

 Manoel's. " Some tropeiros from -the rancho seeing 

 me catching Papilionida?, caught a few also for me. I 

 afterwards ascended the hill into the forest northward 

 of our Rancho and took insects, till wet through in a 



