ACTIAS MAENAS, VAR. SAJA. 135 



Anterior wing exp. : 80 mM. ; apex acute. The anterior 

 margin straight, slightly bent towards the apex; outer- 

 margin hardly undulated, slightly bent inside to media 1 ; 

 innermargin 40 mM. Prime-colour greenish yellow; costa 

 gray and brown; a pale brown band near the base, which 

 is yellow; a brown patch near the apex; starting from 

 this spot to another large one on the outermargin near 

 the distal angle, a waving, narrow at the beginning, pale 

 red-brown line. Parallel with this striga is another distinct, 

 angular, narrow one, between the lunule and the distal 

 patch. The end of the cell is marked by a large crescent- 

 shaped lunule, dark internally and on the outline. Below, 

 the forewing is very pale yellow coloured; of a basal 

 band there is nothing to see ; the patch near the apex is very 

 dark brown ; the waved line to the brown patch near the 

 distal angle is distinctly traced. The lunule is replaced 

 by an ocellus. 



Posterior wing: exp. 160 mM. ; tail 113 mM. long and 

 3 mM. broad, enlarged before the apex. Prime-colour 

 greenish yellow; tail and outermargin dark red-brown. 

 Parallel with the outermargin a narrow angular striga; 

 near the base an irregular brown little band, which diffuses 

 to the tail. On the cell an ocellus. On the underside the 

 hindwing is paler coloured and has the same pattern as 

 the upperside, the brown near the base however is wrinkled 

 into a dark brown line. Frons yellow; prothorax brown; 

 meso- and metathorax and the abdomen greenish yellow 

 on the upperside and pale yellow on the underside. Stig- 

 mata bordered with gray ; femora yellowish white ; tibiae 

 and tarsi grayish brown. 



This variety resembles very much the type of Doubleday. 



9- The female of var. saja has the following measures : 

 exp. alar. 180 mM. ; exp. forewing 85 mM. ; exp. hind- 

 wing 160 mM. ; tail 100 mM. ; innermargin of the fore- 

 wing 50 mM. ; the tail is broad 6 mM. The foremargin 

 firstly straight, then rounded towards the apex; outermargin 

 little bent inside till media 1 , undulated ; distal angle 

 rounded towards the innermargin. The general colour is 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museuca, Vol. XXXV. 



