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a different species from P. plaitzi. P. getula Maassen and Weyding is the female of P. 

 ploetzi, as Maassen and Weymer originally held. We have specimens taken in coitu, 

 settling the question beyond doubt, and all of the so-called P. getula in our collections 

 are females, as shown by the presence of ova in their abdomens, as well as by the shape 

 of the antennae.] 



EUD.aEMONiA Hiibner 

 (674) 1. Eudsemonia brachsrura minor, new variety 



The synonymy of E., brachyura (Drur}') is as follows: 

 Attacus brachyura Drury, 1780, 111. Exot. Ent., Ill, PI. xxix, fig. 1. 

 Bomhyx argus Fabricius, 1781, Spec. Ins., II, p. 170. 

 Eudoemonia uroarge HiJBNER, 1822 (?), Verzeich. bek. Schmett., p. 151. 

 Eudivmonia brachyura Rothschild, 1895, Nov. Zool., II, p. 48. 

 Eudwmonia brachyura Beutenmuller, 1897, Journ. X. Y. Ent. Soc, V, p. 166, 



Pis. XI, XII ; 1901, idem, IX, p. 195. 



I now propose a new varietal name for the form represented by a 

 single specimen of this insect in the collection, which was captured at 

 Avakubi, December 11, 1909. It agrees with a number of other speci- 

 mens which we have in our collections from the Ogove River and 

 Cameroon in being of much smaller size and differently marked from the 

 insect figured by Drury and also by Beutenmuller, which probably 

 represents a race occurring in Sierra Leone ; I feel that it is worthy of at 

 least a varietal name. It may be in fact another species, and for many 

 years past I have inclined to so regard it. 



d^. Prevalent color ro?y ashen-gray, the middle of the long tails darker rosy 

 brown, the spatulate extremity inclining to yellowish. Without any trace of the post- 

 median pale yellow band upon the primaries, shown in the figures given by Drury 

 and Stoll and in Beutenmiiller's photographs. A small ocellus in the cell of the 

 primaries at the lower outer angle, and beyond the cell in the same wing a transverse 

 series of from two to four small semitranslucent ocelli, which are variable not only in 

 number but in size, some being in one specimen very pale, annulated with dark 

 brown, in others darker, the light inner spot being more or less obliterated. The 

 secondaries have a yellow semitranslucent circular spot at the end of the cell, which 

 seems to be always distinctly annulated with dark brown, especially distinct in the 

 female sex. Beyond the cell there is a tranverse series of circular pale j'ellow semi- 

 translucent spots, ringed with darker brown, they being also variable in number and 

 size, as they are in the fore wing. Expanse: cT, 20-22 mm. (or about one and one- 

 I'.alf inches) ; 9 , 25-28 mm. (or at most one and seven-eighths of an inch). 



The foregoing description is based upon a pair of finely preserved 

 and very perfect specimens (type cf and allotype 9 ) in the Holland 

 Collection in the Carnegie Museum, which were received from Dr. 0. 

 Staudinger and said by him to come from Sierra Leone. The single 

 somewhat defective specimen in the collection upon which I am report- 

 ing agrees with these types in size, and in the markings, and may be 

 accepted as a paratj^pe. We have other specimens. 



