262 Mr. J. H. Leech on 
1. Actias sinensis. 
Tropxa sinensis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., vi, p. 1264 (1855). 
I have one example, taken in July at Kiukiang. My 
collectors did not obtain the species in any other part of 
China that they visited. 
Hab. CENTRAL CHINA. 
2. Actias selene. 
Echidna selene, Hiibn., Exot. Schmett., 1, pl. elxxu, fig. 3. 
Actias selene, Macleay, Zool. Miscl., 11, p. 70 (1815); Moore, 
Cat. Lep. Mus. E.LC., ii, p. 400, pl. xix, figs. 3, 3a 
(1859); Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 634. 
Actias ningpoana, Feld., Wien. ent. Mon., vi, p. 34 (1862). 
Saturnia artemis, Brem., Motsch. Etud. Ent., 1852, p. 64; 
Lep. Ost-Sib., pl. 11, figs. 6,2?,and 7, ?. 
Tropxa artemis, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 765 (1892); 
Staud., Rom. sur Lép., vi, p. 330 (1892). 
Tropxa maassent, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 765 (1892). 
Tropza gnoma, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) xx, 
p. 480 (1877); Ill. Typ. Lep. Het., ii, pl. xxv, fig. 1 
(1878). 
Tropxa aliena, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) iv, 
p. 3855 (1879). 
Tropxa dulcinea, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 14. 
Tropea mandschurica, Staud., Rom. sur Lép., vi, p. 331 
(1892). 
Saturnia felices, Oberth., Etud. d’Entom., xx, p. 67, pl. ix, 
fig. 61. 
Distribution. Throughout [yp1a, CEYLON, and BURMA 
(Hampson) ; HASTERN, CENTRAL and WESTERN CHINA; 
JAPAN; KiIusHIU; COREA; AMURLAND. 
Staudinger (Rom. sur Lép., vi, p. 380) states that he has 
received only artemis from Japan and is of opinion that 
my specimens from that country are wrongly referred by 
me to selene. He mentions that I do not refer to the 
length of tail and suggests that if I had seen Bremer’s figure 
and read the description of avtemzs I should have ascer- 
tained that the tails are shorter than those of selene and 
differently formed. 
Some specimens received from Hertz, who obtained 
them in the country to the north of Pekin, are referred 
to by Staudinger as a distinct species under the name 
