232 CATALOGUE OF DITJKtfAL LEPIDOPTEKA. 



septem rubris : habitat in Europa australiore, America." Ent. Cam. 

 p. 149. n. 425, fig. 425 (1763). 



Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 265. n. 271, 272 (1776) ; Sp. Ins. p. 95. 



n. 417 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 51. n. 504 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. 



iii. p. 214. n. 668 (1793). 



Italy. (Presented by Signer Passerini) B.M. 



There is one specimen of P. Hypermnestra in the Banksian Collec- 

 tion in the British Museum. 



2. Thais Maturna. 



Papilio (N. P.) Maturna, Linnaeus, " alis dentatis, fulvis, nigro 

 maculatis, posticis subtus fasciis flavis, strigis undatis nigris : habitat 

 in Corylo, Erica, Scabiosa." Petiver, Gazoph. pi. 1. fig. 8. 



Papilio (N. P.) Ilumina, Esper [nee Linnaeus], " alis dentatis, 

 variegatis ; supra anticis punctis sex, posticis quatuor rubris." " P. 

 Rumina austraiis," Ear. Schmett. i. pt. 2. pi. 72. fig. 4 (1777). 



Fabricius (part.), Sp. Ins. p. 107. n. 467 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. 

 p. 51. n. 505 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 244. n. 759 (1793). 



Gibraltar. (Obtained 1867) B.M. 



Petiver's figure represents a Thais, subsequently confounded by 

 Fabricius with the (Lycaenide) P. Rumina, Linnaeus, which name it 

 has since retained. In his ' Species Insectorum ' and * Mantissa In- 

 sectorum,' p. 60, Fabricius mistook the small form of Melitcea, Trivia 

 for P. Maturna, and compared it to P. Cinxia ; and Hiibner, in 

 his * Sammlung europaischer Schmetterlinge,' applied the name P. 

 Maturna to another species of Melitcea (P. Iduna, Balm.), which 

 has ever since represented the P. Maturna of Linnaeus in our col- 

 lections. 



Genus 2. PARNASSIUS (Fabricius), Latreille, 

 Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. p. 202 (1809). 



1 . Parnassius Mnemosyne. 



Papilio (P.) Mnemosyne, Linnceus, " alis rotundatis, integerrimis, 

 albis, nigro nervosis ; anticis maculis duabus nigris marginalibus : 

 habitat in Europa boreali." 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 466. n. 100 (1775); Sp. Ins. p. 35. 

 n. 148 (1781); Mant. Ins. p. 17. n. 170 (1787); Ent. Syst. 

 iii. p. 182. n. 562 (1793). 



Germany. (Obtained 1841, from Herr J. J. Becker) B.M. 



Frequents flowery fields on mountain- slopes ; when flying it is 

 quite impossible to distinguish it from Pieris Cratcegi. 



There is one specimen of P. Mnemosyne, much worn, in the Bank- 

 sian Collection in the British Museum. 



