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communi transversali fulva : habitat Surinam!." Pap. Exot. i. pi. 83. 

 fig. D (1779). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 129. n. 585 (1781); Mant. Ins. p. 83. 

 n. 750 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 321. n. 215 (1793). 



Para, Lower Amazons. (Presented 1845, by Mrs. J. P. G. Smith) 



B.M. 



3. Mesene Phareus. 



Papilio (P. R.) Phareus, Cramer, " alis integerrimis, subconcolo- 

 ribus rubris, limbo nigro : habitat Surinami." Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 170. 

 fig. 6 (1779). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 126. n. 567 (1781) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 308. 

 n. 167 (1793). 



Para, Lower Amazons. (Obtained 1845, from Mrs. J. P. G. Smith) 



B.M. 



4. Mesene Florus. 



Papilio (H. R.) Floras, Fabricius, " alis integerrimis, fulvis, mar- 

 gine nigro, subtus basi nigro punctatis : habitat in Indiis." Donovan, 

 Ins. Ind. pi. 39. fig. 4 (1800). 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 310. n. 176 (1793). 



Brazil. (Obtained 1848) B.M. 



The red-lead used in colouring some copies of Donovan's * India ' 

 has gone quite brown, so that the figure is scarcely recognizable ; 

 the species is naturally of a bright fulvous-orange colour, with a 

 black border and several basal black points on the under surface of 

 the wings. P. Florus is referred with doubt to the genus Lyccena 

 in the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.' 



5. Mesene Thelephus. 



Papilio (P. R.) Thelephus, Cramer, " alis integerrimis, nigris ; 

 anticis albo punctatis, posticis supra basi runs ; subtus caeruleis 

 nigro variis : habitat in America." Pap. Exot. i. pi. 66. figs. E, F 

 (1779). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 124. n. 560 (1781). 



P. Tilephus (sic), Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 78. n. 710 (1787). 



P. Telephus (sic), Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 304. n. 153 (1793). 



Para, Lower Amazons. (Obtained 1849, collected by H. W. Bates, 



Esq.) B.M. 



Genus 15. CHARTS, Hubner, 

 Terz. beTc. Sclimett. p. 21 (1816). 

 1. Charis Avius. 



Papilio (P. R.) Avius, Cramer, " alis integris, concoloribus fuscis, 

 strigis duabus apicis caeruleis : habitat in India occideutali." Pap. 

 Exot. i. pi. 92. fig. B (1779). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 124 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 77. n. 701 

 (1787). 



