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Rhipheus dasycephalus, Swainson, op, cit. pl. 131. 
Urania druryi, Boisduyal, Rey. Zool. 1874, p. 8. 
Urania rhipheus, var., Guenée, Sp. Gén. ix, p. 12. 
Chrysiridia riphearia, Hiibner, Verz. p. 289. 
Urania madagascariensis, Lesson, Ilustr. d. Zool. pl, xxxiii. 
Hab. Madagascar; China? (Drury'); Bengal? (Cramer); Coromandel?; St. Helena ? 
(Bory de St. Vincent). 
I am quite satisfied that the figure given by Drury was taken from a specimen which 
had the hind wings mutilated, and the head replaced by that of a Papilio. Drury gave 
China as the locality of his specimen, which is also clearly erroneous; but whether the 
specimen had been brought from Madagascar or from some part of the eastern coast of 
Africa is uncertain. In the latter case his insect may be geographically distinct from 
the Madagascar individuals; and this would enable us to account for the variations in 
the markings of the wings pointed out by Swainson, Guenée, and Boisduval. Until, 
however, we receive individuals agreeing with Drury’s figure, I should be inclined to 
think that the variations pointed out resulted from the evidently imperfect and 
partially rubbed condition of Drury’s insect. 
According to M. Sganzin, who captured numbers of C. rhipheus in Madagascar, the 
small neighbouring island of Sainte-Marie possesses a smaller species, thus noticed by 
him in his communication to M. Boisduval :—“ I] existe aussi une petite espéce que je 
crois trés-différente de la premiére (U. rhipheus). On ne l’a pas rencontré 4 la méme 
époque, et je ne crois pas qu’on la trouve a la grande terre; je ne l’ai jamais vue qu’a 
Sainte-Marie; elle parait en mars et avril,” the true U. rhipheus appearing in the 
winged state in September. 
Sp. 2 (10). CarysiriDIA MACLEAYII. 
Urania macleayii, Montrouzier, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, sér. 2, viii. p. 410. 
Hab. Woodlark Island. 
Sp. 3% (11%). Curysrripia cre@svs. 
Thaliura cresus, Gerstaecker, in Archiy f. Naturg. xxxvii. p. 361, and V. d, Decken, Reisen in 
Ost-Afrika, Ins. p. 383, tab. xvi. f. 4. 
“ A Thal. rhipheo, Cr., differt alarum anticarum fascia media smaragdina latiore, mar- 
ginem externum versus furcatim divisa, strigis dimidii apicalis densioribus, posticarum 
area smaragdina et igneo-cuprea uberius nigro conspersa et fasciata, appendiculis 3 
posticis brevioribus, alis anticis infra ubique subequaliter viridi-undulatis, posticarum 
area basali obscurius ceruleo-viridi.” Exp. alar. mill. 78 3, 929. 
Hab. Ins. Zanzibar. 
I examined specimens of this supposed species in the hands of M. Deyrolle in Paris, 
* On the supposed Asiatic locality of this species see Trimen in Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xi. p. 284. 
