240 Mr. II. W. Bates on the Papilionidae 



closely resemble each other; so much so, that one, Alcmeone of 

 Bengal, was considered by Cramer to be identical with Stmtira d ; 

 the latter being, as we have seen, the most numerous and migratory 

 of all the American species. 



Genus Terias. 

 Swains. Zool. Illustr. 



1. T. Arbela, Hiibn. 

 S . Eurema Arbela, Hiibn. Zutr. 641, 042. 



Ega and Para. 



2. T. Paulina, n. s. 



$ . Expanse 2". Wings elongate, somewhat narrow, their outer margins 

 rounded, sulphur-yellow. Above : fore wing with an outer border, broadest 

 at the apex, gradually narrowing and terminating before reaching the hind 

 angle, slightly trisinuate on its inner edge, brown-black ; hind wing spot- 

 less. Beneath : fore wing yellow as on the upper surface, the costal margin 

 irrorated with red at the base, the termination of the nervines on the costa 

 black, and three spots behind the apex rufous : hind wing yellow as on the 

 upper surface, sprinkled with dusky atoms, four or five on the costa being 

 much larger; a large transverse spot between the costa and subcostal 

 nervure, and two near the abdominal edge, one being near the base, and 

 the other towards the anal angle, also dusky. Antenna? black, head 

 rufous-brown, palpi elongate. 



$. Larger, 2" 2'". Colour pure white, outer border as in the 3. 

 Beneath the same, except that the apex of the fore wings has larger rufous 

 spots. 



A distinct and elegant species, taken on flowers on the borders of 

 the forest, St. Paulo. 



3. T. Deva, Doubled. 

 5. P. Agave, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1. 193. 599 (not Agave, Cram.). 

 ? . T. Deva, Dbld. & Hew! Gen. D. L. p. 78. 7. 



c?. Expans. 1" 8"'. Above : fore wing obtuse, gamboge-yellow ; costal 

 border dusky, an outer border broad at the apex of the costa, gradually 

 narrowing to the hind angle, its inner edge with many shallow sinua- 

 tions, silky violet-black ; the base with two short dusky lines : hind wing 

 rounded, white, slightly tinged with sulphur-yellow, the outer margin 

 with a narrow border, sometimes reduced to a series of spots, blackish. 

 Beneath : fore wing pale yellow, spotless, sometimes whitish on the disk ; 

 hind wing pale yellow, sometimes whitish on the disk, two small black 

 spots at the end of the cell, and a waved dusky irregular belt across the 

 wing, sometimes obliterated. 



The description of Fabricius applies well to the $ : it may be 



