136 ACTIAS MAENAS, VAR. SAJA. 



pale greenish yellow; the costa, except at the apex, fer- 

 ruginous gray to the outside; outermargin from radius 2 

 till cubita 2 faintly rufescent. Near the base a transverse 

 narrow band of the same colour, and beyond the middle 

 a hardly visible undulated streak. The large lunule on 

 the top of the cell is half (inside the cell) black and half 

 citrine with a red-brown outline. The lunule in the females 

 is not so strongly bent into the base as in the males. 

 Posterior wing of the same colour as the anterior, outer- 

 margin of the wing and of the tail red-brown; in the 

 middle the tail is sparsely sprinkled with grayish red- 

 brown. On the top of the cell is an ocellus with a frontal 

 piece of the outline black. The tail is very wrinkled at 

 the extremity. 



Below: in the anterior wings the basal striga is absent, 

 the lunule is changed into an ocellus and the undulated 

 line is more distinct, as it also is on the posterior wings. 

 The colour is paler. 



Frons yellow; prothorax grayish red-brown, passing into 

 red-brown ; meso- and metathorax greenish yellow ; the 

 abdomen pale yellow. Femora yellow; tibiae and tarsi 

 grayish red-brown. 



The Leyden Museum also possesses two females with 

 the following measures: exp. alar. 139 mM. ; exp. anterior 

 wing 67 mM. ; innermargin 35 mM. ; exp. posterior wing 

 112 mM.; tail 67 mM. 



The third variety has been named by Mr. Fruhstorfer : 



Actias maenas, Var. Iato?ia Fruhst. i. 1. 



Fruhstorfer has separated this variation from the follow- 

 ing, which has been described by Sonthonnax in : Essai 

 de classification des lépidoptères producteurs de sole. Vol. 

 2, pag. 14. G. Weymer writes in: Deutsche Ent. Zeit- 

 schrift „Iris", Jahrg. 1909, pag. 25, the following: „Die 

 Mehrzahl der Exemplare hat grössere goldgelbe Flecke 

 vor und hinter dem Halbmondfleck der Vorderflügel bezw. 

 dem Augenflek der Hinterflügel , sowie mehrere gelbe 

 Schattierungen in der Nahe der Wurzel und vor der Spitze 



Notes frora tlie Leyden Miuseutn, Vol. XXXV. 



