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below with an undulated discal line in place of the sinuous stripe of the upper surface; body 

 below sordid white, palpi and legs rosy. Expanse of wings, 5 inches, 10 lines." 



Mr. Butler remarks that this species most nearly agrees with the Mexican T. dictynna, but 

 differs in the lack of the stalk of the ocellus of the fore wings, etc. But as we have seen, dictynna, 

 even if a local race of T. luna, differs generically from Tropaea [Actias], and naturally enough 

 Linnaeus confounded these two forms, which do not appear to be separate. 



ACTUS SINENSIS Walker. 



Tropaea sinensis Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., VI, p. 1264, No. 7, 1855. 

 Actias sinensis Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 766, 1892. 



Imago. — Two <$ . The following notes were made during an examination of Walker's 

 types in the British Museum: It is a very distinct species, the ocellus of the fore wings being 

 connected by a broad triangular brown stalk with the brown costa. It also has a regular deeply 

 sinuous brown line common to both pairs of wings, situated half way between the ocellus and 

 the outer edge of the wing. 



The ocellus on the fore wing is large and centered with pink brown. The wings are much 

 more ochreous yellow than usual. The inner line is distinct. A broad interrupted submarginal 

 brownish band on the fore wings, which on the hind wings is nearer the outer edge; joining it 

 at the base of the tail, which is purplish brown at the base and toward the middle. 



Expanse of wings about 4 inches; Walker says 48 lines. 



Geographical distribution. — Kiukiang, China, north of Thibet. Leech collection. 



This is the only Asiatic species in which the ocellus of the fore wing is connected with the 



costa by a stalk. 



ACTIAS FELICIS Oberthur. 



Saturnia (Tropaea) felicis Oberthitr, Etudes d'entomologie, livr., XX, p. 67, PI. IX, fig. 61, 1896. 



This very interesting Chinese species is, so to speak, a tailed artemis. Judging by the 

 excellent figure, the fore wings are short and broad, the apex very obtuse; the outer edge full 

 and convex; while the small ocelli are remote from the costa and not stalked. The hind wings 

 are prolonged into a tail, which is considerably wider at the base than near the rather acute tip, 

 and is a little more than half as long as the main portion of the wing. The ocelli are consider- 

 ably larger than in the fore wings. There is an extradiscal scalloped dusky line common to 

 both wings. Compared with the o" artemis the tails are considerably longer, but similarly 

 pointed at the tip; the outer edge of the fore wings is much fuller, more convex. The ocelli 

 of the fore wings are a little rounder, and those of the hind wings less so than in artemis. 



Length of fore wing, 45 mm. 



Breadth of fore wing, 25 nun. 



Length of hind whig, 65 mm. 



Breadth of hind wing, 23 mm. 



Length of tail, 30 mm. 

 Oberthur describes it as pale sea green, with the costa and collar violet brown; fringe yel- 

 lowish ; a grayish extradiscal line ; ocelli a little elongated and -with a black internal crescent and a 

 central hyaline part surrounded by a rose-white nappy pad. 

 Geographical distribution. — -Siao-Loft. 



Another unnamed species inhabits Leon-Fang, China. The tails of the <? are very long 

 and roseate; the wings are green with the edge broadly washed with rose color; the body is lemon 

 yellow, with the collar violet gray ; the costa of the fore wings violaceous, scattered over with white 

 scales. There is no white part between the collar and the head. A ? from the same country, 

 but hi which the edge of the whig is not roseate; only the very long tails are rosy hi the middle 

 and yellowish at the end. 



