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adds a footnote to his description, after correcting the syn- 

 onymy at the head of his species : 



"cette espece port sur nos planches le nom de Psciidoptilctcs, parceque 

 la gravure et 1'impression etaient terminees avant que M. Poey eut 

 public les deux livraisons des centuries des Lepidopteres de 1'ile de 

 Cuba ; nous avons du par consequent adopter le nom de Filenus pour 

 ne pas compliquer une synonymic deja trop compliquee." 



H. antibubastus Hb. 



This species certainly is not a synonym of hanno ; neither is 

 it bubastus Cramer, PI. 332 G. & H., to which Hiibner refers 

 in his V erzeichnlss, p. 69, No. 676. I have referred to Cra- 

 mer's beautiful original drawings, which are now in the pos- 

 session of the British Museum at South Kensington. These 

 are most carefully painted ; the spots and markings of the 

 under surface are delineated with the utmost care and delicacy ; 

 there is no cell spot at all, and the post-median line is not 

 fractured, but is slightly angled in the primaries ; neither 

 has it any subterminal row of spots, there being merely a fine 

 twin crenulate white line ; in the secondaries the second costal 

 spot is projected outwards, the post-median line is not frac- 

 tured ; at the anal angle there is a spot with an orange iris. 

 On the upper surface the color is uniformly brown, with no 

 markings except two anal spots with traces of two other mar- 

 ginal spots above them. All the spots of the under surface are 

 small, round ones, finely encircled with white. The locality 

 is the Cape of Good Hope. The whole pattern of Hiibner's 

 antibubastus is quite different from that of Cramer, and I 

 have no hesitation in saying they represent two quite distinct 

 species ; the locality given by Hiibner is Georgia, so that their 

 habitats are widely separated. I am quite unable to identify 

 this with hanno, as is done by Dyar. The black spots of the 

 primaries, with their definite white encirclings, preclude its 

 being hanno; it is very much nearer isola, but I should not 

 be disposed to make isola a synonym of it. It is very unfortu- 

 nate that Hiibner's types are not known. He painted from 

 specimens lent him by correspondents all over F.urope and 

 beyond, and as a consequence the collections where his types 

 might be are unknown. 



