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Ch. XXXVIII.l MAM3IALIA OF THE NEOTEOPICAL EEGION. 



339 



and yet the inference tliat they were hybrids produced by the 



intercrossing of iT. IfeZp 



H. Thelxiope was not 



admissible ; for the two butterflies were never seen to pair 

 with each other, and the intermediate varieties are unknown 



forms 



If the 



whole district which they inhabit is contemplated^ the inter- 



more 



must 



be treated as good and true species, because they exhibit cha- 

 racters usually regarded as suificient for such a distinction^ 

 and, amongst others, an aversion to pair together. A similar 

 course of reasoning induced the same naturalist to believe 

 in the derivation of R. Vesta from H. Melpomene^ H. Vesta 

 having a very wide range, and extending into the central 

 valleys of the Andes. 



mo 



same reo'ion, mio'ht 



tration. There are two distinct species of Cebus, or Capuchin 



monl 



(0. 



if' 



and that called 



rhifer, St. Hilaire), both found on the Amazo 



which differ in form and disposition. They are not local 



times 



in the same district. 



m 



mo 



miles 



mentioned, that, after comparing the whole Mr 



affirms 



emes 



The naming of these varieties has often been a subject of 

 great perplexity in the Zoological Gardens in London and 



himself 



may 



Hilaire 



up by 



mo 



Nor are the Capucliins the only 



official 



g, as 



Mr 



views, these transitional forms 



To those who adopt 



are precisely 



simpjy im 



hinted, p. 323, that some genera and species are comparatively 



* Bates, Naturalist on the Amazons, vol. ii. p. 101. 



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