Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xliii. (1899), No. 11. 



XI. On Calinaga, the Single Genus of an aberrant 

 Sub-Family of Butterflies, 



By Joi£N Watson. 



\Commu7iicated by J. Cosmo Melvill., M.A.] 

 Received and read, April nth, i8gg. 



In the catalogue of Lepidoptera in the East India 

 Company's Museum (pi. 3a, fig. 5.), Mr. Frederick 

 Moore described from Sikkim a male butterfly, placing it 

 in the family Nyinphalidce, giving the species, which 

 was described from a single specimen, generic rank under 

 the name of Calinaga Buddha. Subsequently, in 1871, 

 Mr. Kirby in his "Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera" placed it in the PapilionidcE as the second genus, 

 which position was in the "Supplement" (published 1877) 

 altered to the Nymphalincs just after Euripus, Hestina and 

 Hypolymnas. Later again, Mr. Charles Oberthiir of Rennes 

 in "Etudes d'Entomologie" Livr. VI., p. 11, pi. 8, fig. 6, $ 

 (1881), described and figured from Thibet a pale form of 

 Buddha to which the specific name of Davidis was given, 

 erroneously I think as a specific designation, for from 

 various parts of Thibet and Western China I have a series 

 of this sub-species which runs insensibly into typical 

 Buddha ; so closely, indeed, in some specimens that if the 

 locality-labels were removed it would be hard to deter- 

 mine with certainty which was Buddha and which Davidis. 

 In Trans. Entom. Soc, 1893, p. 121, Mr. Melvill described 

 from upper Siam the finest species of the genus, C. Sudas- 

 sana, the type specimen of which is now in Mr. C. H. 



September 8th, i8gg. 



