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Hindwiiigs reddish grey, more brown towards the marghis, and crosscil by 

 two very indistinct transverse lines. 

 Underside identical. 



Expanse : <?, 1| inches = 38 mm. ; ? , 2 inches — .51 mm. 

 Hab. Chili. (In Coll. Staudinger.) 

 The genus therefore is reduced to the following : — 



1. Cercopliami venusta (Walk.). 



ab. rafescens (Phil.). 



ab. sidpes (Butl.). 



ab. daphnea (Maass. & Weym.). 



^.frauenj'eldi Feld. 



2. C. mirahilis sp. uov. 



ACTIAS. 



The genns Tropaca HUbu. was established after 181ij, while Act/as was set up 

 by Leech in the year 1815. Mr. Kirby keeps them separate, but I cannot find any 

 characters to define them as two separate genera ; moreover, Mr. Kirby has placed 

 several subspecies of Aclias gelene (Hilbn.) in Tropaea, while he places A. sekne 

 (Hiibn.) itself in Actias. Therefore I think that all species mnst be united under 

 the genus Actias, which then stands as follows : — 



1. Actias isabellae (Graells). 



2. A. sinensis (Walk.). 



3. A. luna (Linn.). 



ab. azteea Pack, 

 ab. rossi Ross, 

 subsp. dictynna (Walk.). 



4. A. selcne (Hiibn.). 



subsp. ningpoamx Feld. 



ab. maasseni (Kirby). 

 subsp. artemis (Brem.). 



ab. (jnoma, (Butl.). 



ab. dalciiiea (Butl.). 



ab. aliena (Butl.). 



ARGEMA. 



A. leto (Doubl.) is the male oi A. moenas (Doubl.), and was described a year 

 later, so must sink ; the genus therefore cousLsts, as follows, of four species : — 



1. Argema mimosae (Boisd.). 



2. .1. mittrei (Guer.). 



3. A. moenas (Doubl.). 



4. A. ignescens Moore. 



EUDAEMONIA. 



E. brachyura (Drury) at Sierra Leone is very constant, of a bufly rose tint, and 

 about 3 inches to 3J inches across the forewiugs. Round Cape Coast Castle, on the 

 other hand, the males very seldom expand more than 2^ inches, have very long tails, 

 and vary in tint from ashy grey to bright yellow and salnion rose. This race may 

 prove distinct enough to be named, but of my five specimens no two are alike, so 1 



