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the middle, nearer to the lunule. Inside the top of the 

 cell is a black line, outside an orange one, forming 

 together a lunule on the crossvein. Below the forewing 

 is pale yellow and has three brown spots, one on the 

 apex, which is very dark, one ocellus under the lunule 

 and a large one near the distal angle. 



Posterior wing: expanse 145 niM., triangular, the anal 

 angle produced into a long tail; tail 103 niM.. Prime-colour 

 greenish yellow ; tail and outermargin pale brown 5 flag 

 yellow. Parallel with the outermargin a narrow angular 

 line, and in the centre, just on the top of the cell, an 

 ocellus with a partially black outline. Near the base a 

 pale brown band. 



The underside is paler and has about the same pattern 

 as the upperside. Frons yellow; prothorax grayish brown, 

 passing into red-brown; meso- and metathorax and the 

 abdomen on the upperside greenish yellow, on the under- 

 side yellowish white; the stigmata are bordered with gray; 

 femora yellowish white; tibiae and tarsi grayish brown. 



9. Doubleday's description of the female oï Actias maenas 

 is also good for the specimens from the East-Indies. The 

 Leyden Museum possesses 8 examples. The females of the 

 four variations of males are very little variegated. But 

 there is a figure in the Cabinet of Orient. Entom. (plate 

 22), which shows us a very interesting form. This moth 

 differs very much from all the specimens, which I have at 

 my disposal. Size, shape, pattern and, last not least, the two 

 blue-gray minute lines on the prothorax are quite different ! 

 West wood writes: "The accompanying figure of this very 

 fine insect is copied from a spec, kindly communicated for 

 representation, by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F. L. S., which 

 differs in some respects from Mr. Doubleday's description of 

 the spec, recently published". Locality ? 1 fear, the picture 

 is not well done, so that I will pass over it. 



Actias maenas, Var. saja, n. v. 



cf . Hab. Solok (Sumatra) and Preanger (Java). Exp. 

 alar. 167 niM. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXV. 



