266 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Pronophila. 
examining a flower in which one of these organs, which are very 
caducous, had fallen away; and this seems clearly proved by 
the following circumstances. Schlectendal states that Hohen- 
hacker’s plant, on which he founded his genus, came from 
the province of Canara, on the south-western coast of the Indian 
peninsula. Now in the Hookerian herbarium I found a plant 
of Hohenhacker’s from Mangalore, in Canara, which I carefully 
examined and ascertained that its flowers are hexamerous, 
agreeing in every character with other specimens of Déploclisia 
inclyta: it is also a ¢? plant, according with Schlectendal’s de- 
scription not only in the size and form of the leaves, but in the 
length of the inflorescence, the distance and length of its pri- 
mary branches, its almost umbellate branchlets, the markings 
of the sepals, and the shape of the petals and sterile stamens. 
It appears to me that there is not the slightest doubt of their 
absolute identity; and I therefore think that the genus should 
be suppressed, and that Quinio cocculus, Schl., should stand as 
a synonym of Diploclisia inclyta. 
XXXITI. — Revision of the Group of Lepidopterous Insects 
hitherto included in the Genus Pronophila of Westwood. By 
A. G. Butier, F.Z.8. 
I wave recently had occasion to rearrange the species of butter- 
flies included in Pronophila; and, being struck with their great 
variety of form and different style of colouring, I have made a 
careful examination of all their structural details: the result of 
my investigations has been to reveal great differences of form in 
the cell of the front wings, and of position with regard to the 
emission of the subcostal and discoidal nerves; the palpi also 
differ slightly in form, length, and position. 
The type of the genus Pronophila is P. Thelebe of Westwood 
and Hewitson. This group, represented by only five species, 
one of which is as yet undescribed, may now stand as fol- 
lows :— 
Genus 1. Pronopuita, Westwood (part.), 1851. 
Typical Species, Pronophila Thelebe. 
Gen. Alis magnis, repandis: anticis subintegris, margine externo 
paulum undato: posticis margine undulato. 
Alis anticis cella obtuse bifurcata, furca inferiore subquadrata, 
longiore ; furca superiore conica, venas secundam et tertiam subcos- 
tales et primam discoidalem ferente ; venis his omnibus ad origines 
confertim approximantibus. 
Caput palpis mediocribus preeporrectis. 
