1863.] 
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among a number of specimens from that vicinity, I presumed that it 
came thence. 
TERIAS, Swainson. 
1. T. Nicippe, Cram. 
Pap. Me. Cram. Ill, p. 31 t. 210, f. C. D. (1780.) 
Herbst. t. 107, f. 2, 4, p. 176. (1787.) 
Fab. Ent. Syst. Ill, i. p. 208, n. 651. (1793.) 
Abceis Me. Hiibn. Verz. bek. Sehmett. p. 97. (1816.) 
Col. Me. Godt. Enc. M. IX, p. 10.3, n. 43. (1819.) 
Pi. Nic. Say, Amer. Entom. II, p. 70, t. 30. (1825.) 
Terias Me. Boisd. Sp. Gen. I, p. 653, n. 1. (1836.) 
Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII, p. 42. (1844.) 
Doubled, and Hewits. I, p. 78, n. 1. (1847.) 
Morris’ Synopsis, p. 33, n.-l. (1862.) 
Ter. Me. Lucas, Pap. Exot. p. 76, t. 38, f. 1. (1835.) 
Xanthidia Me. Boisd. et Lee. p. 55, t. 20, f. 1—5. (1833.) 
Chiapas. 
2. T. Proterpia, Fab. 
Pap. Prot. Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 478, n. 152. (1775.) 
Goeze, Ent. Beitrage III, p. 166, n. 21. (1779.) 
Fab. Sp. Inst. II, p. 50, n. 216. (1781.) 
Fab. Mant. Ins. II, p. 24, n. 249. (1787.) 
Col. Prot. Godt. Enc. M. IX, p. 91, n. 5. (1819.) 
Hiibn. Zutrage. f. 803. (1823.) 
Lucas. Pap. Exot. p. 74, t. 38, f. 2. (1835.) 
Terias Prot. Boisd. Sp. Gen. I, p. 654, n. 2. (1836.) 
Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII, p. 42. (1844.) 
Doubled, and Hewits. I, p. 78, n. 2. (1847.) 
Morris’ Synopsis, p. 35, n. 5. (1862.) 
Honduras. 
3. T. Gratiosa, Boisd. 
Boisd. MSS. Doubled, and Hewits. I, p. 78, n. 4, t. 9, f. 5. (1847.) 
Head, brown: antennae black, annulated with white at their base; 
palpi yellow. Thorax, black; abdomen yellow, a dorsal black band ; 
legs yellowish-white. 
Upper surface ; superior wings, lemon yellow, base suffused with 
orange; costa, black; a broad black border, on the outer margin, very 
much curved and irregular interiorly, bearing some resemblance to the 
outer portion of the “ dog’s head” so well marked in M. Csesonia. It 
arises from the lower third of the costal margin, traverses the apex 
transversely to the first discoidal nervule, thence it is nearly parallel 
with the outer margin as far as the medio-superior nervule, at which 
