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Show 482 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [May 7, 40. G O N I U R U S CATILLUS, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 260.figs. F, G (1782). 41. TELEGONUS, sp. ? (Olive-brown, dull green at the base.) This species is quite common in collections, and therefore is sure to have been described ; but it would be necessary to work out nearly the whole family in order to identify it, many of the descriptions of Hesperiidce being so bad that their determination is simply impossible. 42. PROTEIDES AMYNTAS, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 533 (1775). 43. PAMPHILA ETHLIUS, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 392, figs. A, B (1782). 44. PAMPHILA NYCTELIUS, Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 746 (1823). 45. PAMPHILA PHYLUS, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. pl. 13. figs. 4, 5 (1773). 46. PAMPHILA UTHA, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 37. n. 32 (1868). The form from Jamaica being rather different from that of St. Domingo (and probably of Cuba), I append a description. Wings above bright tawny, reddish at the base ; a broad chocolate brown marginal belt from the end of the cell of each wing round the outer border to the external or anal angle, where the fringe becomes tawny ; primaries with a large dark brown spot across the median vein ; head and collar metallic green, bordered and crossed by testaceous lines of upright scales ; remainder of the body above dull tawny, slightly olivaceous in front, yellowish below, with blackish spots down the centre of the venter. Primaries below with the disk of a yellower tint than above; the blackish median spot extended to the base, a blackish spot beyond the cell; outer border broadly brown, becoming ferruginous upon the costa: secondaries ferruginous, with a spot in the cell and a squamose angulated discal belt more or less orange ; anal fringe bright orange. Expanse 2 inches. I have to thank Mr. D u Cane Godman for the identification of this handsome species. I think it may be the insect intended by the description of Eudamus capucinus, Lefebvre ; but the Latin of that description cannot be translated. It runs thus : - " E. alis paululum subrotundatis, supra piceo-fuscis ad basin ochraceo-rubescentibus; anticis in mare supra arcu minuto subtus macula fere dubia, in disco luteis (fcemince utrinque maculis duabus geminis eodem colore) nervula sectis; subtus anticis ad basin et disco inferiori nigris; omnibus alis fuscis atomis rubris griseisque omnino rubescentibus." The whole of the descriptions of Lepidoptera in Ramon de la Sagra's ' Cuba' are of this character. E. trinitad is said to have three front wings on each side, with transparent unequal and yellowish spots, "anticis utrinque tribus maculis translucidis ineequali- |