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 11. Euplcea {Isamia) midamus, Linna?us. 



Papilio midamus, Linnseas, Syst. Nat. Ins., ed. x, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 470, n. 75 

 (1758) ; Isamia midamus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 312, n. 5, pi. 

 xxxii, fig. 5, male ; Lep. Lid., vol. i. p. 132 (1S91) ; Euplcea (Trepsichrois [sic !] ) 

 midamus, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 446, n. 9 ; Papilio superbus, 

 Herbst, Pap., vol. vi, p. 14, n. 3, pi. cxix, fig. 3, female ; pi. cxx, figs. 1, 2, male 

 (1793)*; Euplcea superba, Felder, Verb., zool.-bofc. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 488, 

 n. 147 (1862) ; Isamia superba [sic], Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 311, n. 

 3; Lep. Ind., Vol. i. p. 132 (1891); Kirby in Hiibner's lx. Scbmett., new edition, 

 Vol. 1, p. 4, pi. xxiv, figs. 3, 4, female (Limnas Mutabilis Midamus [sic] on plate) (1894) ; 

 Euplcea (Isamia) superba [sic], Walker, Trans. Enfc. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 446, n. 8 ; 

 Danais alopia, Godart, Enc. Metb., vol. ix, p. 177, n. 4 (1819) ; Isamia alopia, Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 313, n. 6, pi. xxxii, fig. 7, male ; Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 

 132(1891); Isamia sinica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 312, n. 4, Lep. 

 Ind., vol. i, p. 132 (1891). 



There are several mistakes in the references as usually given. 

 Herbst calls his fig. 3 on pi. cxix a 6' , "while it is a 2 , and his figs. 1 and 

 2 on pi. cxx a 2 , while it is a $ . Dr. F. Moore sets this right in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, page 311, n. 3, as regards the 2 ; but on page 

 313, n. 6, erroneously calls figs. I and 2 2 instead of $ . He also uses 

 superba instead of superbus as originally written, and refers to plate 102 

 instead of plate 122. He makes two species out of Herbst's figures, 

 while they represent one species only. 



Dr. F. Moore in 1883 and again in 1891 records and keeps distinct 

 four species of Isamia from South China. These four species are in 

 my opinion one and the same species, -which at Hongkong, and doubt- 

 less wherever it occurs in Southern China, is a most variable one. In 

 Hongkong the larva has been reported to feed on Stropliantlms divergens, 

 Grah., Natural Order Apoeynoxeie. 



Subfamily SATYRHwE. 

 12. Mtcalesis (Calysisme) mineus, Linnaeus. 



Papilio mineus Linnaeus, Syst. "Nat. Ins., ed. x, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 471, n. 84 (1758) ; 

 Calysisme mineus Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 162 ; Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 

 187 (1892) ; Mycalesis mineus, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 447, n. 13 ; 

 Mycalesis mineus, var. confucius, Leech, Butt. China, Japan, and Corea, p. 12, 

 pi. ii, fig. 7, male (1892) ; Kirby, The Entomologist, vol. xxxii, p. 31 (1S99). 



The var. cnnfucius is the dry-season form of 21. mineus found in 

 China. The larva in India feeds on grasses. 



13. Mycalesis (Calysisme) hoesfieldii, Moore. 

 Calysisme horsfieldii, Moore, Lep. Ind.. vol., i, p. 197, pi. lxvi, figs. 2. 2a, 26, 



