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Schaff., but they do not agree with the description of antiqua. 

 The description of antiqua agrees perfectly with the speci- 

 mens from Haiti, and Mr. Schaus suggests that Herrich- 

 Schaffer may have had a Haitian specimen before him when 

 he described antiqua. Mr. Schaus also says that his Cuban 

 specimens all lack the small spots on the primaries and I 

 think all his specimens were probably collected by himself 

 in the Santiago region (Oriente). I have never seen any spe- 

 cies of Pyrrhocalles from Porto Rico and I do not know whether 

 there are any on that Island. Dr. C. T. Ramsden has a 

 fine collection of Cuban Lepidoptera, and I wrote to him for 

 information in regard to antiqua. His reply follows: 



"My specimens certainly have not the spots you have drawn as on the 

 San Domingo specimens, but mine are all from the environs of Guan- 

 tanamo. Possibly those from western Cuba may have the spots. The 

 question is to get some from western Cuba and I shall try to get them. 

 The Herrich-Schaffer type may have come from around Havana as Gund- 

 lach did his first collecting in and about Matan/as Province. It is strange 

 that Gundlach (Cont. Entomologia Cubana) does mention these spots, 

 and probably did have a Cuban specimen before him. I have always 

 been in doubt whether Gundlach made his descriptions from specimens 

 before him and taken by himself, or whether he copied the Herrich-Schaffer 

 descriptions. I am inclined to think, however, that he made his own 

 descriptions from material before him. His descriptions in some cases 

 are not quite complete, or at least not as complete as one should desire. 

 I have never detected a mistake, nor noticed any kind of nature-faking. 

 I notice he says he found the species only in western Cuba." 



To try and clear up the matter for the present I propose 

 the name orientis for the unspotted form found in eastern 

 Cuba. The type is a male from Guantanamo (San Carlos ?), 

 Cuba, taken June 25, 1910, for which I am indebted to Dr. 

 Ramsden, in the collection of The Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia. 



It will probably be useful to have the original descriptions 

 as the works in which they are contained are not commonly 

 in libraries. 



" Pamphila antiqua HS. One of the largest species, though with nar- 

 rower wings than statins. Black brown, all wings as far as about the middle 

 beautiful cinnamon-red, which color is finely divided by black ribs, on the 

 anterior wing as far as branch 3 and on the back wing everywhere reaching 



