BRASSOLIS SOPHORAE AND LURIDA. 257 
NOTE XLIII. 
ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE 
FEMALE OF BRASSOLIS SOPHORAE SOPHORAE (L.) 
AND THAT. OF SOPHORAE LURIDA (STICH.) 
BY 
R. VAN EECKE. 
(With 2 text-figures). 
The differences between these two subspecies of the genus 
Brassolis are well indicated as to the males, but the females 
are insufficiently distinguished. In „Das Tierreich’’, 25ste 
Lieferung, Brassolidae, pag. 11, the author, Stichel, has 
said that the females of both subspecies are identical. With 
the aid of the material in the Leyden Museum I yet will 
try to separate the females also. 
At the „International Colonial Exposition” of 1883 at 
Amsterdam were five males and two females of Brassolis 
sophorae lurida, captured in Surinam at the same place 
and at the same date, which specimens are now in the 
Leyden Museum. The Entomological Collection of this 
Museum contains moreover four males and three females 
of the other subspecies, sophorae sophorae, likewise from 
Surinam, partly from the collection Raye, partly collected 
by VerHuell. 
The females of Br. sophorae sophorae and those of 
Br. sophorae lurida are easy to distinguish from their 
males by the form of the wings and abdomen, and by 
the size. 
The forewings of both females have the same form, but 
their pattern and size are different. The length of the 
forewing of sophorae Q is 53 mm., that of lurida 43 mm. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
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