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South Africa, appears to he female of Clierine, Boisd. ; Rhodocera lyco- 
rias, with a different shape of wing from Sylhet. 
Danaides. — Danais cliloe, Guerin (Deless. Souv. ii. p. 71) is a new 
species from the island of Penang. 
Nymphalides. — Godartia is a new genus, characterized by Lucas 
(Ann. d. 1. Soc, Ent. d. Fr. xi. p. 295, f. 12, 11). He notices, amongst 
its characters, the rounded section of all the wings : G. madagasca- 
riensis is from Madagascar. 
Freyer (Beitr. 60 Hft. t. 355, p. 117) has separated a Norwegian But- 
terfly as Argynnis ossianus, from A. aphirape ; but it appears to me to 
be a bright coloured variety of aphirape rather than the ossianus, 
Hiibn. The same author (ibid. t. 343, 385) has figured beautiful varie- 
ties of Limenitis populi and Apatura iris, as well as the earlier states 
of these insects. 
Guerin (Deless. Souv. 11, p. 72) has described Argynnis emalia as a 
new species from the coast of Malacca, and given a plate and exact 
description of his Vanessa eudoxia, from the same place. 
Satyrides. — Freyer (Beitr.) has represented the earlier states of Hipp. 
phcedra (t. 373), galatea (t. 379), dejanira (t. 391), and oegeria (t. 403). 
He has also given a plate of H. aristceus. Bon., male (t. 397), from 
Sardinia ; of Iphis, a variety from the anterior range of the Caucasus 
(t. 367) ; and distinguished as a species H. satyrion from H. philea, 
Hiib. {satyrion, O.) It is only a slight variety (with a broader and whiter 
band on the under side of the posterior wings, and smaller ocelli on 
them), to which there are sutflcient transitions. 
Several new species from the Nilgherries have been described by 
Guerin (Del. Souv. ii. p. 74, t. 24) : Satyrus (Cyllo) neelgheriensis, 
very like the Sat. europa, and probably only a local variety ; S. Adol- 
phei and S. chenu. 
Lyccenides. — Freyer (Beitr.) has figured the following (partly new) 
species : Lyccena rhymnus, Fr., damone, Ev., anteros, Boisd., from 
Russia (t. 386), and L. hellis, Fr., from Turkey (t. 398). Guerin (Deless. 
Souv. ii. p. 78, t. 22, fig. 1) has figured a new species, Polyommatus 
nyseus, from Pondicherry. 
The history of the metamorphosis of the Theda isocrates, has been 
described in the Transact. Ent. Soc. of Lond. (ii. p. 1), in which it is 
asserted, that the caterpillars, which live in pomegranates, bore their 
way out of the fruit, and spin a web round the stalk, that the fruit may 
not fall oflp ; then creep in again and become pupae. Downes has ob- 
served the same caterpillars (Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist. ii. p. 408), and 
cannot confirm either the spinning round of the stalk, nor the becoming 
pupae in the fruit ; but only found, that the caterpillar came out of the 
pomegranate in which it lived, and was changed into a pupa on the out- 
side of it. He found no pupa within a pomegranate. 
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