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that it has some affinities with the “ Saturniide” and the “ Geometrites.” It appears 
to me much better placed in the Saturniide, near the genus Arsenura. 
A single species only, from Surinam, has been described ; this we now trace north- 
wards to Nicaragua. 
1. Draconipteris mirabilis. 
Phalena Attacus mirabilis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 148, t. 272. f. B’. 
Draconipteris mirabilis, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 150; Walk. loc. cit. p. 1186°. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D. ; 
Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Surinam 1, Demerara ?. 
The specimen sent by the late Mr. Belt is, I have little doubt, a female ; it agrees 
fairly well with Cramer’s figure, but is not quite so dark in colour; the one received 
from Arcé isa male. The example in Dr. Staudinger’s collection (a male) is in very 
poor condition ; it is darker in colour than either of the other specimens before me. 
EUDAIMONITA. 
' Hudemonia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 151; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1265. 
Two species were placed under the above name by Hiibner; Walker later on 
describing the genus, and also making it to include the same species, EL. semiramis, 
from Honduras, and £. argus, from Ashanti and Sierra Leone; a third, E. jehovah, 
from Brazil, has since been added by Mr. Strecker. The species all appear to be very 
rare and little known ; and of E. jehovah Mr. Strecker states that he knows of but one 
example. The very poor specimen of E. semiramis, from Honduras, in the British 
Museum is the only representative I have seen of this genus, remarkable for the 
enormously long-tailed hind wings. 
1. Hudemonia semiramis. 
Bombyx semiramis, Fabr. Gen. Ins. p. 277; Sp. Ins. ii. p. 170; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 109; Ent. Syst. 
iii. 1, p. 413. 
Phalena Atiacus semiramis, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 19, t. 18. f. A’; Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 5. 
Eudemonia semiramis, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 151; Walk. loc. cit. p. 1265 ?. 
Copiopteryx semiramis, Duncan, in Jardine’s Nat. Lib. vii. p. 125 (1841); ibid. 2nd edit. xxxii. 
(Ins. vii.) p. 125 (1852). 
Saturnia pheniz, Deyr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, 1869, xii. p. 257, t. 1°. 
Eudemonia pheniz, Maassen and Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. ff. 5 (2), 6,7(¢)*. 
Aricia pheniz, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 92. f. 1, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 2 ( 2)’. 
Eudemonia semiramis, Strecker, Lepid. Rhop. & Het. pp. 98, 101. 
Hab. Honpuras ? (Miller, mus. B.).—Cotomsia ?°; Guiana, Surinam! 4; Brazit 4. 
I include this species upon the authority of the specimen from Honduras in the 
British Museum. It seems a little doubtful to me if the species named by Deyrolle is 
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