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Show 1904.] BUTTERFLIES FROM DOMINICA. 451 DlADEMA MISIPPUS. Papilio misippus Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 264. Messrs. Godman and Salvin record this species. I have only received a single female; it belongs to the form with the white-banded apex, and has a rather faint discal white patch on hind wings above. MEGALURA PELEUS. Papilio peleits Sulz. Gesch. Ins. t. 13. f. 4. Three specimens in bad condition. AGANISTHOS ORION. Papilio orion Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 485. Three specimens of this common South American species. They agree best with the mainland form, not with that found in the Greater Antilles. In the same way all the specimens of Anartia jatrophce Linn, are typical and do not belong to the variety saturata Stgr. ANJSA DOMINICANA. Ancea dominicana G. & S. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 316, pi. xxv. f. 1. Two females. The female differs from the male only in being somewhat larger. LlBYTHEA FULVESCENS. Libythea fulvescens Lathy, Abstr. P. Z. S, 1904, No 5, p. 19 March 22. * ' Upper side. Fore wing blackish brown, with the following fulvous markings : a wide fascia within cell and two below it, of which the upper is the shorter; a minute spot on middle of costa; two large patches between this and outer margin, the upper being oval in shape, the lower square, and a small oval spot about midway between the latter and outer margin ; a minute spot below this. Hind wing with ground-colour paler, especially about inner margin; a discal wide fulvous band, a paler patch midway along costa, and cell suffused with fulvous. Underside. Fore wing with the fulvous markings all brighter and more extended ; outer margin greyish, with brown striations. Hind wing greyish, with brown striations, these becoming dense so as to form a dark patch on costa one-third from the base; a discal band and a wide dark outer margin. Exp. 50 millim. In Coll. H. J. Adams, 1 <$ (type); W . J. Kaye, 1 <$. This species may be separated from L. carinenta Cram, and L. motya Boisd. by the absence of any white markings above; and from L. terena Godt. by the greater extent of black above and the unicolorous character of the fulvous markings. Mr. Kaye's specimen differs slightly from the type in having the subapical fulvous spots somewhat diffused. PROC. ZOOL. Soc.-1904, VOL. I. No. XXX. 30 |