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Not in the National Collection. 



The nearest approach to this species in the collection is the P. 

 llinda of Doubleday's ' List.' Mr. Wallace states (Ent. Trans, iv. 

 3rd ser. p. 364: 1867) that the male is pretty constant, the female 

 very variable ; in the British -Museum collection, however, these 

 variations seem pretty equally balanced and tolerably constant to 

 localities, so that it is not improbable that they represent several 

 nearly allied but distinct local races. 



6. Tachyris Saba. 



Papilio (D. C.) Saba, Fabricius, "alis rotundatis, integerrimis, 

 nigris, fascia communi alba : habitat in Africa sequinoctiali." P. 

 Hypatia, Drury, III. iii. pi. 32. figs. 5, 6 (1782). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 46. n. 199 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 21. n. 224 

 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 201. n. 627 (1793). 



Sierra Leone. (Obtained 1858, collected by Mr. James Foxcroft) 



B.M. 



The type and a second specimen of P. Saba are in the Banksian 

 Collection in the British Museum ; Mr. Jones figures the species in 

 his unpublished ' Icories.' 



Genus 5. EUTEBPE, Swainson, 

 Zool. III. ii. ser. 2. p. 74 (1831). 



1. Euterpe Sisamnus. 



Papilio (D. F.) Sisamnus, Fabricius, " alis integerrimis, atris, albo 

 punctatis, fascia communi alba anticarum abbreviata : habitat 



" E. Pitana, Felder, Reise der Novara, ii. pi. 23. figs. 9, 10 



(1866). 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 44. n. 131 (1793). 



Kio Napo (obtained 1851, from Mr. Stevens) ; Villa Nova (col- 

 lected 1855, by H. W. Bates) ; Nauta (collected 1858, by M. Degand). 



B.M. 



After determining this species from description, it was suggested 

 that Fabricius was extremely unlikely to have obtained a Euterpe 

 occurring in such out-of-the-way localities ; however, in Mr. Siilviii's 

 copy of Boisduval's ' Species General' (formerly the property of E. 

 Doubleday, Esq.), there is a pencil sketch of this particular insect 

 traced from Jones's ' Icones,' accompanied by a note in Mr. Double- 

 day's handwriting, and a brief description of tne details of colouring, 

 &c. It runs thus : " An Euterpe. Black, band and dots white ; 

 below with band yellowish and a row of cuneiform dots on outer 

 margin of anterior wings ; six red dots at base of front wings." P. 

 Sisamnus, Fabr., E. Telasco, Lucas, and E. Pitana, Felder, are one 

 species ; the Fabrician type was probably from the coast of Panama, 

 whence Mr. Salvin has specimens. 



