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Show 810 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Dec. 4, 2. O n a Collection of Lepidoptera made in Northern Formosa by H. E. Hobson, Esq. By ARTHUR GARDINER BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Eeceived November 13, 1877.] Through the kindness of Dr. Lockhart, I have recently had the pleasure of examining a collection of Lepidoptera sent home by M r. Hobson, who has generously permitted me to select, for the national collection, those species which we required. In 1866 Messrs. Wallace & Moore published, in the ' Proceedings ' of this Society, a list of the Lepidoptera taken by Mr. Swinhoe at Takow: of the forty-six butterflies there enumerated seventeen only have reappeared in the present series ; and some of these will not be recognized as the same, owing to changes which have arisen in the nomenclature of the Butterflies and in the views now held by many lepidopterists of the localized character of the so-called variations of certain species. RHOPALOCERA. NYMPHALIDJS. DANAINAE, Bates. DANAIS, Latreille. 1. DANAIS PLEXIPPUS. Papilio plexippus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 262 (1764). Several examples. 2. DANAIS CHRYSIPPUS. Papilio chrysippus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 263 (1764). Two or three specimens. 3. DANAIS MELANEUS. Papilio melaneus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 1, pl. 30. D (1775). One example. 4. DANAIS TYTIA. Danais tytia, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nep. p. 9, pl. 9. fig. 2 (1846). One example. 5. DANAIS SIMILIS. Papilio similis, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 299 (1764). Tolerably common. TERPSICHROIS, Hiibner. 6. TERPSICHROIS MIDAMUS. Papilio midamus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 251 (1764). Two or three specimens. |