. COPAXA.—AUTOMERIS. 175 
Hab, Mexico? 45° (Coffin 1*), Cordova (Hoge). 
All the specimens that I have seen and that have been described of this species are 
females. There is no doubt that the insect described as Copaxa plenkeri by Dr. Felder 
is referable to this species; a comparison of his figure with those of Professor West- 
wood and Maassen and Weymer proves that they are almost identical. The single 
Mexican example before me differs from all of them in having a wide brownish-black 
band on the secondaries from the inner margin to the ocellus. In the Paris Museum 
there is a specimen of a species of this genus labelled “ Saturnia canelle, Boisd.” (a 
description of which I am unable to find) from Mexico, which may possibly be the 
male of C. lavendera. In my notes, made in 1881, I find :—* Very like 8. lavendera, 
Westw., in markings, but a rich reddish-brown colour.” 
Professor Westwood (oc. cit.) states that a female example of this insect was reared 
from a large green spiny larva, found on a poplar trunk. 
.SAGANA. 
Sagana, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1234. 
Walker founded this genus for the reception of Saturnia sapatoza, Westw., an insect | 
inhabiting Colombia, and which, on the authority of two specimens in the Oxford 
Museum labelled “ Mexico,” we somewhat doubtfully include in our fauna. 
1. Sagana sapatoza. — 
Saturnia sapatoza, Westw. P. Z.S. 1853, p. 163, t. 33. f. 1 (¢)*; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd 
ser. Xv. p. 299°. 
Sagana sapatoza, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1235 °. 
Hab. Mzxico (mus. Oxford).—Cotomsia, Bogota 12%. 
This curious little insect does not seem closely allied to any described species. 
AUTOMERIS. 
Automeris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 154. 
Io, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. 206 (partim). 
Nine species were placed under this generic name by Hiibner. The genus now con- 
tains a very large number of species ; in our country it is well represented by upwards 
of twenty species; but Tropical South America seems to be its head-quarters. I have 
described as new six species, all of which are figured. It is quite possible, however, 
that one or more of these may have been named by Walker ; but, owing to the types of 
several species (A. memuse, A. cinerea, A. pyrrhomelas, A. vagrans, and A. submacula) 
having been lost from the late Mr. Saunders’s collection, now in the Oxford Museum, I 
am unable to speak positively. As it is quite impossible to make out the species with 
any certainty from Walker’s descriptions, I have thought it advisable to describe and 
name all the undetermined species from our country. As Boisduval, in his monograph 
