List of Butterflies described as from Minas Geraes, but which are not in my collection. Quoted from "Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera, formed by the late W. C. Hewitson," by W. F. Kirby, 1879; and from " A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, with Appendixes," by W. F. Kirby, 1871-1877. Those marked * are from the Hewitson Collection. In Mr. Kirby's catalogue of all known Rhopalocera, including appendixes up to 1877, thirty-five species are marked as from Minas Geraes; and in the Hewitson Collection seventy-one named and eight unnamed species from the same province, out of a total of four or five thousand species. In Mr. Hewitson's "Exotic Butterflies," he figures nineteen species from Minas Geraes, while the Amazons are represented by 232, Ecuador by 175, and New Granada by 80 coloured drawings, besides many others from all parts of the world. * † Tiphus, Cram. Div. II.-HETEROCERA. List of Moths collected by H. C. Dent in Brazil. All the insects were taken in the province of Minas Geraes, except those marked *, which were collected from the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. The nomenclature is from specimens in the British Museum Collection. I have also referred to Lederer's "Wiener Entomologisher Monatschrift," vol. vii. The classification is from "List of the Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum," 1854, etc., by Francis Walker, F.L.S. I have also examined most carefully MM. Boisduval and Guénée's "Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères Hétérocères," Paris, 1852-1857. This book, however, is incomplete. Dr. J. A. Boisduval issued, in 1874, the volume on "Sphingidæ, Sesiidae, and Castniidae:" but, owing to his death, the parts on "Zygænidæ " and "Bombycites" have never appeared. |