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me, repeatedly, in the last fifteen years, specimens identified by 

 him as troglodyta Fabr. Dr. Staudinger received of the same 

 specimens, which always proved to be uniform in coloring and 

 appearance, and likewise determined them as troglodyta Fabr. 

 Kirby, in his Catalogue, p. 276, gives "Jamaica" as the home 

 of troglodyta. In 1888, Dr. Staudinger published that incom- 

 parable and beautifully illustrated work entitled, " Exotic Lepid- 

 optera," by Dr. O. Staudinger and Dr. E. Schatz. Rhopalocera 

 by Dr. Staudinger." On pages 177 and 178 of this work, re- 

 ferring to the revision of the genus An&a by Druce, in the " Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society of London," 1877, Dr. 

 Staudinger says the following : 



" The genus Ancea is found throughout the whole dominion of 

 the neotropical fauna from Southern Brazil to Mexico and the 

 Antilles, one species even flying in the Southwestern States of 

 the American Union, from Illinois to Texas. The American 

 authors call it troglodyta Fabr. If astianax Cr. , which is always 

 given as a synonym of it, really belongs to it, then it is a similar 

 species, exclusively flying in the Antilles, and this is the reason 

 that Scudder, in 1875, named the North American species andria 

 (== Ops. Druce, p. 177, 1877)." 



On p. 178 he says: 



"In Jamaica is found A. troglodyta Fabr., which I received 

 directly from there, as well as from Sommer's collections from 

 Hayti (Port au Prince) and Sta. Cruz. One specimen out of the 

 collection of v. Schenck is marked ' Mexico,' but surely did not 

 come from there, but from the Antilles. This troglodyta has a 

 long-drawn, sharply-pointed apex of primaries, and the seconda- 

 ries sharply dentated from anal angle to tail. The brown prima- 

 ries in both sexes show beyond the centre a black, dentated, 

 transverse line, and a darker marginal band. A. andria Scud. 

 (= Ops, Druce, troglodyta, Edwards and Strecker) from the 

 United States, resembles this insect, but the male does not show 

 the transverse line; the female has it, but is in many ways differ- 

 ent from troglodyta. A. portia Fabr., which I possess from Som- 

 mer's collections in Hayti (Domingo), as well as from Cuba, I 

 cannot, according to the specimens which I possess, separate as 

 a species from troglodyta, although the black transverse line of 

 the male is nearly extinct. According to the descriptions of 

 Fabricius, who gives as habitat of both species ' America,' there 



