272 CATALOGUE OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. suppl. p. 431. n. 236, 237 (1798). 



Coimbatoor, South India. (Presented 1861, by M. J. Walhonse, 



Esq., Madras Civil Service) B.M. 



The type of this species is referred to as in Daldorff s collection ; 

 all the other Hesperidce described in the supplement to the ' Ento- 

 mologia Systematica ' from that collection are Indian ; there seems 

 also to be no African species with which the above description 

 would agree. 



Genus 6. COBALUS, Hubner, 

 Verz. beJc. Schmett. p. 114 (1816). 



1. Cobalns Virbius. 



Papilio (P. U.) Yirbius, Cramer, " alls integerrimis, nigris ; an- 

 ticis punctis tribus, posticis apice albis : habitat Surinami." Pap. 

 Exot. ii. pi. 143. fig. F (1779). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 138. n. 641 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 92. 

 n. 829 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 353. n. 343 (1793). 



Para, Lower Amazons. (Obtained 1850, collected by H. "W. Bates, 



Esq.) B.M. 



2. Cobalus Saturnus. PI. III. fig. 10. 



Papilio (P. U.) Saturnus, Fabricius, " alis divaricatis, fuscis ; an- 

 ticis albo punctatis, posticis subtus striatis : habitat Caiennae." 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 85. n. 769 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. 

 p. 328. n. 244 (1793). 



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



Esq.) B.M. 



This species is referred in the * Genera ' to the genus Pampliila. 



3. Cobalus Philemon. PI. III. fig. 11. 



Papilio (P. U.) Philemon, Fabricius, " alis rotundatis, integer- 

 rimis, atris immaculatis ; antennis uncinatis : habitat in America." 

 Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 534. n. 392 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 136. 

 n. 631 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 89. n. 812 (1787) ; Ent. 

 Sijst. iii. p. 346. n. 314 (1793). 



Honduras. (Obtained 1845, from Mr. Dyson's collection) B.M. 



The type of P. Philemon is in the Banksiaii Collection, and is 

 figured in the unpublished ' Icones ' of Mr. Jones. In the ' Genera 

 of Diiirnal Lepidoptera ' P. Areas of Drury and P. Flyas of Cramer 

 are placed as synonyms of this species ; neither of them, however, 

 are referable to it. 



