254 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



a few. L. coridon, Poda ; a few. Adopcea thaumas, Hufn. ; a 

 few. Hesperia malvce, L. ; a few. Thanaos tages, L. ; occa- 

 sionally. 



(To be continued.) 



A NOTE ON SOME SPECIES OF PREPONA. 

 Percy I. Lathy, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Herb Fruhstorfer, in the * Iris,' 1905, pp. 304, 305, places 

 P. gaiieppiana, Stgr., as a subspecies of P. neoterpe, Honrath, and 

 places two other species, P. hrooksiana, Godm., and P. deijMle, 

 Godt., between that species and P. enagoras, Hew. 



This is incorrect, as ena/yoras, Hew., should iollow garlejjpiana, 

 Stgr. ; on the under side there is very little difference between 

 neoterpe, Honrath, and enagoras, Hew., and garleppiana, Stgr., 

 but these three forms may at once be separated from Godman's 

 and Godart's species by the extremely irregular postmedian line 

 of fore wing below. According to Fruhstorfer's own showing, 

 deiphile, Godt., cannot come between garleppiana, Stgr., and 

 enagoras. Hew., as it possesses yellow tufts, while the latter 

 species have dark brown, almost black tufts, and Fruhstorfer 

 divides the genus into two sections by this character. Sect. B. 1 

 with black, and Sect. B. 2 with yellow tufts. Garleppiana, Stgr., 

 is more like enagoras, Hew., than neoterpe, Honrath ; in fact, 

 the only way it differs from the former is that it has metallic 

 blue bands on both wings above, but it possesses the submarginal 

 orange spots and costal streak, both of which are wanting in 

 neoterpe, Honrath. 



Fruhstorfer may not know the true garleppiana, Stgr., as two 

 or three years ago several specimens of neoterpe, Honrath, were 

 sent out by a German dealer as Staudinger's species. If this 

 error was not corrected, it would have caused confusion. As 

 I write I have before me Honrath's type and a co-type of 

 Staudinger's, and I have also seen Staudinger's type at Dresden. 



I am inclined to think either that Staudinger was right in 

 supposing garleppiana to be an aberration of enagoras. Hew., 

 or that it is a hybrid between that and neoterpe, Honrath. 



Fruhstorfer gives Columbia as the only locality of P. jjrcsneste, 

 Hew. I am able to add New Granada, the original locality ; 

 Zamora, Ecuador, one specimen taken in July, 1886, by the 

 Abb6 Gaujon ; and San Piemon, Peru, two specimens taken in 

 July, 1903, by Watkins and Tomlinson, and one by Watkins 

 in 1904. 



The specimens from the different localities exhibit slight 

 differences. The Ecuador example has a much narrower red 

 fascia on fore wings above, and both Ecuador and Columbian 



