MR. A., a. BUTLBE ON THE SPECIES OF LEMONIAS. 213 



A Monograph of tlie Genus Lemonias, with Descriptions of New 

 Species in the Collection of the British Museum, including 

 other forms sometimes placed in that G-enus. By Aethfe G. 

 BuTLEE, F.Z.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department, British 

 Museum. Communicated by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.E.S., Y.P.Z.S. 



(With two Plates.) 



[Bead Nov. 15, 1866.] 



Mt primary object in the present paper is to separate the typical 

 or true species of Lemonias from those, of a different form and 

 pattern, which, though allied to that genus, are too distinct both 

 in form and pattern to be retained in it. 



The little genus Tharops, for instance, can be so readily di- 

 stinguished, both by form and coloration, from Lemonias, that 

 it ^ems a violation of all order to include them under the same 

 heading ; the genus Anatole, again, in no way resembles Lemonias 

 in coloration, and moreover differs from it entirely in outline. 



I have carefully compared the pattern and structure of the 

 different sexes in this group, and by the help of analogy, locality, 

 &c. have been enabled to discover the opposite sexes of several 

 species, of which the males or females alone have hitherto been 

 recognized. I find, moreover, that in several instances two distinct 

 males have been regarded as sexes of one species, -whilst at other 

 times two females have shared the same fate. 



Genus Lemonias. 



Lemonias et Calospila, E. Douhleday. 

 Lemonias (part.), Westwood i^ Hewitson. 



Alee anticce maris supra ccBrulees, rufofuscoque varicB ; posticafuscce, mar- 

 ginefiavo : feminae fusees, anticce fascia obliqua alba. Anticce subtus 

 punctis nigro-fuscis iridatis scriptce. 



1. Lemonias SuDiAS. (Lemoma,s Sadias, Hewitson, Exot.Butterf.ii. 

 p. 115, pi. 58. f. 12, 13, 14 (1858).) 



Hab. Honduras. <?, $. B.M. 



Alee maris fuscce, cceruleo et aliquando albo varice ; femince fuscce, scepe 



alba varice. 



2. Lemonias Alector. (Ilamanumida. A\ector,Hubner,ZutrdgeEicot. 

 Schmett. f. 927, 928 (1806-27). Lemonias Alector, Westwood, Gen. 

 Diurn. Lepid. p. 458. n. 6 (1851).) 



Hab. Brazil. 

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