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region, — and state the specific extent and ran^e of his proposed new genera. The few facts of 

 geographical distribution which we possess, and which have been formulated on the labours 

 and decisious of the s3 + steniatist, with the general concurrence of specialists, onght not to 

 hi' invalidated by the hasty erection of new genera for a few species without reference to 

 the whole.* 



A. Outer murtfiim of posterior t<-irt<ts cuudotAif a ad prominently }tr*uiua'd >tt apices of first and third 

 median nervittes* 



% Charaxes echo, (Fig. 38,) 



i'haraxe* Echo, ISutlcr, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, tier, 9, 



vol. ix. p. 100, L H, tigs. G. li (IHI>7J ; Dniec, 



Proc. ZooL Sc-c. 1873, p. 346, No. 1. 

 S'tjmphatvt ftihiiix, vat% C, Kirby, Cut. Diurn. Lep. p. 2G9 



(1871i. 



As this species is only known to me by an 

 uu coloured figure, which is here reproduced, it is 

 better to give the original Latin diagnosis of its 

 describer 



" Alffl supra mgro-fusc®, ad basin pauium vir id f scent cs : anticic serie macula-rum aeptem clecre- 

 scentium ml varum discali ; maculis duabus pone cellam oblique positis punctisque tribus marginalibuB 

 analibufl fulvia: posticus fagcia tenui media, punetis sept era ovalibus Bulaniirginalibus undecimque 

 atigularibug margmalilms fulvis ; margin u interim fuBco-grisescente : corpus tliorace uigro-fuBCO, abdomine 

 fusco : anteunis nigris. 



"Alfc subtus ro se o- albican tes, extus paiilum mseescenttH : ftntieie line-is trihus iL'scoblcis diiul>iisi|nc 

 infra cellam nigris; maculis discalibuB velut supra, intus autem ni^ro limitatis; macula Buperna pone cellam 

 cxtensa fasciolam formantc ; maculia submarpmilibug serie positis (apud anguium ani aolum distinctis), 

 omnibus Mavis; maculis tluabus tribusve, cum iis subanalibus jtuictis, ovalibus, nigris, auali geininata: 

 postiea? areola basali ct fascia media ulbiilis nipu limitatis, hae <juoque argenteo intns marginata; maculis 

 Beptem lunulatis ferrugineis, tribus iuferioribus majoribus magis rafescentibus, omnibus intus cyaneo-albo 

 cinetis et nigro limitatis; linea subaualt nigra; maculia scptem marginalibus ca?ruleis nigro linetitis 

 extua fulvo et intus albo limitatis : corpus ochraceuni, thoracis medio palpisque albicantibus ; antennas 

 nigris. 



"Exp. alar. imc. tyj." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Singapore (coll. .Roberts}. — Borneo (l)ruce). 



* The artificiality of many genera has been welt pointed out by Weisniunn, who also observes, "If we see two 

 species of butterflies quite lUtumuilar in form of win^ ami other characters, we should bo inclined, in spitf of many points 

 of agreement between iheiu, to place them in eutirely different genera. Hot almubl wo ilnn find that not only did their 

 mlull liirv-Li a<;ree in every detail of marking, hut abu> that the entire pliyletic (level opmeiil of these marking, as revealed 

 by the ontogeny of th> luivu.-, hud taken precisely the nume course in both soeeie* t we should certainly conclude that they 

 possessed a near blond-relationship, and should place them close together in the same genus" ( + Stud. iu Theory of Descent," 

 Engl. Tran si., p. J70J- 



Erroiieouft viewN Imvo obtained in Anthropology as to the stage of culture denoted fey a recognition of a "genua*' of 

 natural objects. Thus Dr. PeHehel (*The Races of Man,* p. 0) writes, "In nations which have remained at a low stage 

 of civilization, we find nuinca iVn- ibiTvrent species of oaks + but none for the genus oak." This has been refutt-d by Dr. Hector 

 lllrit. Ash., Bristol* \HVi\, who testitiid Unit the Maorics have cot only distinct names for nearly all their plants, but 

 generic names by which thoy gronpeil plauts according to tlieir aftinities, in a way impossible to most people wLo wire 

 not filutratid In-tuuifttb. 



