134 CATALOGUE OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



5. Acraea Andromacha. 



Papilio (H.) Andromacha, Fabricius, " alis rotundatis, integer- 

 rimis, concoloribus, nigro punctatis ; anticis denudatis, posticis fla- 

 vescentibus : habitat in Nova Hollandia." 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 466. n. 102 (1775) ; 8p. Ins. p. 36 

 n. 150 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 17. n. 172 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. 

 iii. p. 182. n. 564 (1793). 



New Holland. (Presented 1844, by the Haslar Hospital, col- 

 lected by Bynce, Esq., Surgeon, B,.N.) B.M. 



The type of P. Andromacha is in the Banksian Collection in the 

 British Museum. 



Genus 6. GNESIA, E. Doubleday, 

 Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 141 (1848). 



1. Grnesia Egina. 



Papilio (H.) Zetes, Fabricius, nee Linnaeus [P. Egina, Cramer'], 

 " alis oblongis, fuscis, nigro punctatis ; posticis fascia fulva nigro 

 punctata, subtus margine pallido punctato : habitat in Guinea." 

 Pap. Exot. i. pi. 39. fig. G (1776). 



$ . Papilio (H.) Persephone, Fabricius, " alis integris, fuscis, nigro 

 punctatis ; anticis macula alba ; posticis margine nigro immaculate : 

 habitat in Guinea." 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 174. n. 541, 542 (1793). 



Ashanti. (Obtained 1844) B.M. 



A female of this species in the British-Museum collection agrees 

 well with Jones's unpublished figure, copied by Donovan, in the 

 Hope Collection of drawings at Oxford. 



Var. Papilio (H.) Pasiphae, Fabricius [P. Medea, Cramer], " alis 

 oblongis, integerrimis, fuscis albo variis, maculis margineque atris : 

 habitat in Guinea." Pap. Exot. i. pi. 81. figs. C, D (1779). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 33. n. 140 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 16. 

 n. 161 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 176. n. 548 (1793). 



This remarkable insect is doubtless an aberration of Cramer's P. 

 Egina, although in the ' Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera ' Mr. Double- 

 day has regarded it as a distinct species. 



2. Gnesia Parrhasia. 



$ . Papilio (H.) Parrhasia, Fabricius, " alis oblongis, integer- 

 rimis, atris ; anticis macula quadrifida fulva hyalinaque ; posticis 

 fascia fulva ; subtus flavis, punctis lineisque nigris : habitat in 

 Indiis." 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 175. n. 745 (1793). 



West Africa. (From Mr. Milne's Collection) B.M. 



