From the ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 

 Ser. 6, Vol. xvii., March 1896. 



Note on the Synonymy of Huphina lanassa, a common Aus- 

 tralian Butterfly of the Subfamily Pierinae. By AETHUR 

 G. BUTLER, Ph.D. &c. 



So much confusion has arisen in the synonymy of this species 

 that, after carefully working it out, I feel no time should be 

 lost in putting it straight. 



The species was described by M. Boisduval in his l Species 

 Ge'ne'ral ' (1836), evidently from an old female example from 

 New Holland in which the under surface of the secondaries 

 had darkened to ochreous with age, and in which there chanced 

 to be no submarginal spots (we have a specimen in which 

 the secondaries show only one spot on the under surface). 



M. Boisduval considered his specimen to be a male j but he 

 so often blundered in sexing his species, that no reliance can be 

 placed upon the statement " Nous n'avons pas vu la femelle." 

 The description " la bordure des supe'rieures assez large " can 

 hardly apply to a male, unless it be assumed that his method 

 of description was loose, because an equally broad border to 



