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Show 1876.] MR. H. DRUCE ON PERUVIAN BUTTERFLIES. 243 2. C. CIPRIS, Fab. (Pap. cip.) Ent. Syst. iii. 1. p. 212 (1793). Valley of Cosnipata (H. Whitely). Mus. D. 3. C. RURINA, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. v. p. 82 (1861). -Huiro ad alt. 4800 ped., valley of Santana (H. Whitely). Mus. D. One specimen only. 4. C. PHILEA, Linn. (Pap. ph.) Syst. Nat. i. 2. p. 764 (1776). Upper Ucayali (Bartlett). Mus. D. " Not common."- E. B. 5. C. ARGANTE, Fab. (Pap. a.) Syst. Ent. p. 470 (1775). Upper and Lower Ucayali (Bartlett). Mus. S. G. & D. " Very abundant."-# B. 6. C. TRITE, Linn. (Pap. ii) Syst. Nat. i. 2. p. 763 (1766). Upper Ucayali (Bartlett). Mus. D. 7. C. STATIRA, Cram. (Pap. si) Pap. Exot. ii. t. 120. f. C, D (1779). Upper and Lower Ucayali (Bartlett). Mus. S. G. & D. " The species of this genus are very abundant at certain seasons ; they maj be found by thousands on mud-banks of rivers, mingled with Pieris, Papilio, and others."-E. B. Genus PIERIS, Boisd. 1. P. DEMOPHILE, Linn. (Pap.d.) Syst. Nat. i. 2. p. 761 (1767). Nauta and Upper Ucayali (Bartlett). Mus. D. 2. P. PISONIS, Hew. Exot. Butt. ii. t. 6. f. 40, 41 (1861). Nauta and Upper Ucayali (Bartlett). Mus. S. G. & D. 3. P. DIANA, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. v. p. 81 (1861). Nauta (Bartlett). Mus. D. " Pieris is generally distributed over the whole of East Peru ; and some of the species are extremely common on the mud-banks of the rivers, where they assemble in patches of hundreds together. It is puzzling to the traveller what becomes of the females. The whole of the four years I was in Peru I only obtained about six females of all the species of the genus Pieris; the males I collected by hundreds." -E. B. Genus APPIAS, Hiibn. 1. A. ILAIRE, Godt. (Pap. i.) Enc. Meth. ix. p. 142 (1819). Nauta (Bartlett). Mus. D. " Very common."-E. B. 2. A. DRUSILLA, Cram. (Pap. d.) Pap. Exot. ii. t. 207. f C (1779). Valley of Cosnipata (H. Whitely). Mus. D. & S. G. 16* |