1866.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA. 457 



figures are for the determination of species of Lepidoptera, even when 

 the insects are carefully described. 



VlCTORlNA SUPERBA. 



Amphirene superba, Bates, Ent. Month. Mag., List Butterfl. 

 Guatem. & Panam. (1864). 



Victorina aphrodite, Butler, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 483. 



Hab. Polochic Valley, Guatemala ; Mexico. B.M. 



The Mexican form which I described is somewhat longer and 

 narrower in the wings than the one described by Mr. Bates. We 

 now have specimens of both insects in the Museum Collection. 



Charaxes. 



The following alterations should be made in my monograph of 

 this genus (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 422 et seq.) :— 



Charaxes euryalus and C. latona should come after C. affinis, C. 

 latona being included in the same division with C. affinis and its 

 allies, as it is evidently the female of an insect belonging to that 

 group. 



Charaxes jahlusa (Trimen) and C. argynnides (Westwood), p. 637. 

 n. 59, must, I think, be separated as distinct species ; I have lately 

 seen specimens of two species, probably typical of these forms, in 

 Mr. Bates's collection. 



According to M. Lucas, the Nymphalis pleione of Godart, which 

 in the 'Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera ' is placed in the genus Paphia, 

 should properly belong to Charaxes, where it would come near C. 

 horatius, the ant idea of Drury. 



M. Lucas has examined the type specimen described by Godart ; 

 he considers that the proper locality of the insect should be the coast 

 of Africa, and not the Antilles as stated in the ' Encyclope'die Me- 

 thodique.' The synonymy of this species therefore will stand as 

 follows : — 



Charaxes pleione. 



Nymphalis pleione, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 366. n. 56 (1819). 

 Paphia pleione, Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. 

 p. 319. n. 23 (1850). 



Charaxes pleione, Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. de France, p. xx (1861). 

 Hab. Antilles {Godart) ; coast of Africa {Lucas). 



Charaxes fabius. (Synonym of) 



Papilio euphanes, Esper, Ausl. Schmett. i. pi. 59. f. 1 (1801). 



C. galaxia of my ' Monograph ' has been supposed by some to be 

 a mere variety of C. pyrrhus ; but having lately seen a specimen of 

 the true pyrrhus in the collection of Mr. Bates, I am enabled to say 

 distinctly that the two insects are vastly different, C. pyrrhus having 

 been very well represented by Clerck, Cramer, and others. The 

 specimen in Mr. Bates's collection is from Amboyna. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1866, No. XXX. 



