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Show 480 MR. A. G. BUTLER O N [May 7, 4. On a small Collection of Lepidoptera from Jamaica. ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Received April 12, 1878.] The Lepidoptera enumerated in the present paper were collected at or near Kingstown, Jamaica, hy Mr. James John Bowrey, who has kindly permitted a selection to be made from them of all the species required for the national collection. Among the Butterflies, as might have been expected, there is very little new, a species of Pamphila being the only one to which I have ventured to give a name; but among the more obscure and small Moths there are about two dozen novelties. RHOPALOCERA. 1. DANAIS ARCHIPPUS, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. l,p. 49 (1793). The males from Jamaica seem to possess a constant peculiarity in the immaculate black border of the secondaries. 2. DANAIS JAMAICENSIS, Bates, Ent.Mo. Mag. i. p. 33 (1864). 3. CALISTO ZANGIS, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 486 (1775). 4. PAPHIA PORTIA, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 507 (1775). 5. AGANISTHOS ORION, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 485 (1775). 6. HETEROCHROA ABYLA, Hewitson, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. vi. pl. 9. fig. 7 (1850). 7. EUBAGIS EG.EA, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 496 (1775). 8. LUCINIA CADMA, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. ii. pl. 18. figs. 1, 2 (1773). 9. MARPESIA ELEUCHA, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schm. ii. pl. 50 (1816-24). 10. GYN^CIA DIRCE, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 287(1764). 11. ANARTIA J ATROPHY, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 289(1764). 12. JUNONIA GENOVEVA, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 290. figs. E, F(1782). 13. CYSTINEURA DORCAS, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 508 (1775). 14. PHYCIODES FRISIA, Poey, Cent. Lep. (1833?). 15. EUNICA TATILA, Herrich-Schaffer, Ausl. Schm. figs. 69-72 (1852-58). In the examples from Jamaica the white spots are smaller than in the figure. |