486 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
V. Pupa ini a loose web.; imago with fully developed legs and twelve sepa- 
rate veins in the fore wings 16. Hesperidina. 
In the arrangement of the genera, Herrich- Schaffer departs 
in many respects from his predecessors. He transfers Euplcea 
and Hestia from the Danai'na to the Heliconina, with which 
they certainly do not so closely agree ; his family Danaina thus 
includes only the genus Dandis. The genera Caligo, Dasyoph- 
thalma, OpsiphaneSj Dynastor, Penetes, and Narope are grouped 
with Brassolis in the family Brassolina ; Bia and Hagadia are 
separated as types of new families, as is also Hcetera [Hetceraj 
H.S.); with the last-mentioned genus Cithmrias Pierella 
are associated. . The family Elymniina includes only the genus 
ElymniaSj with which H. -Schaffer regards Dyclis as identical. 
The Eurytelina include, besides Eurytela ixiid Hypanis (Bdv.), 
the genera Bidonis, Cystineura, Olinay and Ergolis (West.) ; and 
the Nymphalina, the last family of which the analysis is here 
given, consists of an assemblage of no fewer than 113 genera, 
and must be regarded simply as the rough residue from which 
the smaller groups just mentioned have been cut away. Herrich- 
Schaffer, indeed, indicates a series of thirteen groups, which he 
thinks may hereafter be raised to the rank of families. The 
characters of two new genera arc given in this family. 
Herrich-Schaffer has published (Corresp.-Blatt zool. -mine- 
ral. Ver. Regensb. 1864, pp. 159-172) a complete list of the Rho- 
palocerous Lepidoptera observed by Gundlach in Cuba during a 
residence of twenty-five years in that island. Gundlach states 
that the Cuban Lepidoptera were handed over for determination 
and description to A. Lefebvre, by whom they were mixed with 
specimens from other West-Indian islands, so that when they 
aftei* wards came to be described by Lucas in Ramon de la 
Sagra^s great work on the natural history of Cuba, there could 
be no certainty that the species really occurred there. As Gund- 
lach has zealously collected the Lepidoptera of the island in all 
districts dui-ing his residence in Cuba, he thinks there is little 
doubt that the species observed by him furnish a fair indication 
of the nature of the Diurnal species at any rate ; and if this be 
the case, one is struck, as Herrich-Schaffer remarks, by the 
poverty of this tropical island when compared with countries of 
equal extent elsewhere. In the present paper, which is not 
completed, Herrich-Schaffer gives a list of the Cuban species of 
eight of his families. Of the Heliconina, which might have 
been expected to swarm, only four species occur ; and of the 
Danaina { = Danqis) only two, one of which is the widely-dis- 
tributed D. archippus. The most remarkable circumstance is 
the almost total absence of Satyrina, of which only a single 
species has been noticed by Gundlach, whilst 49 are recorded 
by Weidemeyer as inhabiting the northern and central parts 
