?>22 Mr. E. G. Joseph on the Rhopalocera position in the Ledrinse. Stal evidently must have wrongly incorporated a note when he placed this species (Hem. Afr, iv. p. 246) as a synonym of his Phlebopterum pramorsum, which he figured (Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1856, p. 67, pi. i. fig. 8). Melichar has copied the error (Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 2, 190.2). XL1V. — The Collections of William John Burchell, D.C.L., in the Hope Department, Oxford University Museum. IV. On the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera collected by W. J. Burchell in Brazil, 1825-1830. By E. G. Joseph, of Lincoln College, Oxford. [Continued from ser. 8, vol. iii. p. 111.] VII. Heliconiinje. Mr. J. C. MOULTON having left England in order to under-take the curatorship of the Sarawak Museum, I suggested to Mr. E. G. Joseph, of Lincoln College, Oxford, the preparation of an account of further groups of Buichell's Brazilian butterflies. To this Mr. Joseph readily assented, and, in the course of the work, I have had abundant opportunities of witnessing the great patience witli which he lias performed this laborious task and his success in doing justice to the wonderful accuracy and powers of observation of the illustrious naturalist. E. B. PoiJLTON. The following paper forms the continuation of the valuable publications of Mr. J. C. Moulton on BurchelPs Brazilian Nymphalinse and of Miss Cora B. Sanders on the earlier subfamilies. In the nomenclature and succession of the species of Heliconiinse I have followed Stichel's monograph in Wyts-nian's ' Genera Insectorum ' l , and have only departed from his arrangement by splitting up Heliconius nanna into two subspecies. The whole of the Heliconiinse in the Hope Department have been worked out and arranged, according to Stichel's monograph, by Mr. W. J. Kaye, E.E.S. I owe a deep debt 1 37th Fascicule of the ' Genera Insectorum,' edited by P. Wytsman. Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera; Fam. Nymphalidae, Subfam. Heliconiime, 19013.
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