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over the middle, in cell 3-7 of the primaries forms a bow-shaped row of 

 little spots, on its costal half, however, reaches only to the middle of the 

 wing. Underneath the ground-color lighter, and the wing strongly cov- 

 ered with cinnamon-colored scales, a bow-shaped row of still lighter spots 

 behind the middle, one such spot on the middle. The spots of the under 

 side lighter and larger than above."! [Translation.] 



Dr. Ramsden kindly sent me the description of antiqiia by 

 Gundlach. 



"Up to the present this species is known only from the Island of Cuba, 

 western part. I do not know the larva or the chrysalis. I do not see any 

 marked difference in the coloring of each sex. The insect is rare and visits 

 the flowers. On the upper side the four wings are brown (dark brown), 

 with their basal half of a pretty reddish cinnamon and a transverse line of 

 spots of the same color on the anterior wings. Under side of anterior 

 wings are dark brown with a band of spots which correspond to those on 

 the upper side, this band of spots begins at the base of the anterior border 

 then separating from it in a circle till it nearly reaches the anterior border. 

 The posterior wings below are of ferruginous brown color with an arc- 

 shaped series of cinnamon colored spots, as also a single central spot of 

 this same color, all of which are barely visible. Between the wings 50 

 mm."§ [Translation.] 



The Jamaican species is readily separated by the difference 

 in the markings on the upper side of the secondaries. In 

 the Cuban and Haitian forms the black color does not extend 

 into the cinnamon color of the central area of the wing. 



Remarks on Dr. MacGillivray's Paper entitled 

 "The Eyes of Insects." 



By G. C. Crampton, Ph.D., Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, Mass. 



In a class of animals like the Insecta, which includes such a 

 diverse and multitudinous array of forms ranging from the 

 extremely ancient and primitive types to the more recent and 

 highly modified ones, it is extremely difficult to discover any 

 features which are peculiar to one of the larger subdivisions 

 of the class, and which are characteristic of all of its members 

 without exception. Although it may be much simpler to 

 ignore these exceptions when they occur only in a few scattered 



t Corresp. Blatt Regensb. 1863, 17, p. 142. 



§ Gundlach, Entomologia Cubana, 1881, p. 1,50. 



