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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 203 the true Heliconidae, he groups those genera separated by Mr. Bates as lianaoid Hehconinae, as well as the genera Hamadryas, Euplcea, and Hestia, restricting the Danaina to the genus Danais only. In January 1866 Mr. Butler (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 43-59) published his « Monograph of the Genus Danais." This monograph, which is a revision of the species known to the author a" that time, is also accompanied with descriptions and figures of new species contained in the British-Museum collection. All the species are here arranged under Danais, which is divided into four uncharacte-rized numerical sections, as follows : - 1 S T . SECTION, comprising the Amauris group ; 2 N D SECTION, the American species berenice, gilippus, &c., chrgsippus, plexippus (genutia), and allies; 3 R D SECTION, sinulis, limniace, aglea, melaneus, cleona, &c. : 4 T H SECTION, gaura and daos. 1 8 T h i s monograph was followed in March by a Supplement (P. Z. S. 18t>u, pp. l/l-17o) enumerating and describing other species, characters being added (founded chiefly upon the colour and pattern) to the four sections as given above. In May of the same year Mr. Butler published (P.Z.S. 1866 pp. 268-302) a " Monograph of the genus Euploea;' containing also descriptions and figures of new species in the British-Museum collection. The species are here arranged under Euplcea, which is broken up into ten divisions, characterized by their colour, form, and pattern ot markings. In the following year Mr. Butler also published (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, pp. 467-484) a " Monograph of the genus Hestia," containing descriptions of new species, and also a tabular resume of all the species of family Danaidae then described. Dr Felder, in the ' Reise der Novara,' Lepidoptera, part ii, describes and figures a number of species of Danainae. As the date of publication of this part of the ' Reise der Novara ' has been much discussed by Lepidopterists, the following remarks may not here be out of place. Of part ii. of this work, though it bears the date of 1865 upon the title-page, the actual issue by the publishers appears not to have been effected till the beginning of 1867. There is no entry of it in the 'Zoological Record'for 1865. In tbe ' Record ' for 1866 (published in 1867), the compiler of the list of works on Lepidoptera states (p. 433) that "this part was not procurable in 1866, and that he had been informed that an application for it made in February 1867 was unsuccessful." This is surely sufficient to show that Part ii. was not issued for sale, and therefore not published, at the date specified on its title-page. The date there so given may' be that of the completion and lettering of the last plates (pi. 47 bearing that of Oct. 1865), which possibly may be considered as being equivalent to our mode of publication. In 1869 was published the British-Museum "Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera described by Fabricius," compiled by Mr. Butler jn which the species of Danainae are enumerated, accompanied by the original Fabrician descriptions. |