Collection of Madame Gaston Fournier. 71 



Fortunately, ^Ir. Talbot was passing through Paris on his 

 way to visit ^1. Charles Oberthiir at Rennes, and I asked him 

 to be kind enouf>h to examine lloulbert's type ; and he did ?o, 

 and found, as 1 expected, that it is the species without the 

 hairy underside of tore wing. I also examined the specimens 

 in the Paris Museum that were sent to Houlbert, and found 

 them all to be the non-hairy species. 



As Dr. Jordan's description appeared in May 1917, and 

 that of Houlbert in March of the same year, it is the latter 

 who has priority, and grandis, Jordan, sinks as a synonym. 



The pale spots of double row of hind wing in this species 

 are very variable in size ; in one specimen from French 

 Ciuiana the outer row is almost obsolete ; other specimens 

 have the spots of the inner row smaller than those of the 

 outer, while others have them of similar size in each row. 

 The two specimens from Para are not to be distinguished 

 from those from Guiana. 



10 c? c? , 4 ? ? , Lower Maroni, French Guiana ; \ S , 

 1 ? , Para, Amazons. 



Cypanssias boliviensis, Houlb. 

 Castnia hoUviensis, Houlb. Etud. L^p. Comp. xiii, p. 52 (1917). 



Lord Rothschild states (Novit. Zool. xxvi. p. 3, 1919) that 

 the nine males at Tring agree exactly with Preiss's figure; 

 one of the specimens in Madame Fournier's collection differs 

 in having the oblique white band of fore wing extended to 

 vein 1. 



2 S S , R'o Inambare, S.E. Peru. 



Ci/parissias preissi, Stgr. 

 Castnia jjreissi, Stgr. Soc. Ent. 1899, t. xiv. p. 21. 



This appears to be an exceedingly rare species. The type 

 is from Iquitos, Upper Amazons. The two specimens in 

 Madame Fournier^s collection differ from Preiss's figure of 

 the type [' Neue und seltene Arten des Lepidopteren-Gemis 

 Castnia,' Taf. i. fig. 4 (1899)], inasmuch as the obli([ue 

 white band of fore wing is not continued as far as margin. 



2 c? <J , Lower Maroni, Frencii Guiana. 



Amauta angustata, Druce. 

 Castnia angustata, Druce, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xx. p. 505 (1907). 



Houlbert, in his work on the Castniinpe (Etud. L^p. Comp. 

 p. 125), does not state whether there is any diti'erence between 



