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BUNAEA ALCINOE (Stoll). 



Plate XXXII, fig. 9; CVII, fig. a. 



BUNAEA AURICOLOR (Mabille). 



Saturnia (Bunaea) auricolor Mabille, Bull. Soc. Philom., (7) III, p. 139, 1879. 



Saturnia (Bunaea) fuscicolor Mabille, Bull. Soc. Philom., (7) III, 1879. 



Bunaea aslauga Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1877, p. 18. 



Saturnia diospyri Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) IX, p. 316, 1880. 



Bunaea plumicornis Butler, Cistula Ent., Ill, p. 18, 1882. 



Bunaea aslauga Waterhouse, Aid Ident. Jis, II, tab. 142, fig. 1, 1889. 



Bunaea aslauga Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 751, 1892. 



Bunaea auricolor Rothschild, Nov. Zool., II, p. 3S, 1895. 



[Bunaea aslauga Oberthur, Etud. Lep. Comp., IV bis (1910), p. 38, f. V.] 



[Saturnia diospyri Oberthur, Etud. Lep. Comp., IV bis (1910), p. 38, i. X.] 



[Geographical distribution. — Madagascar.] 



Rothschild has reduced these four nominal species as above to synonyms of B. auricolor. 

 [C. Oberthur (1910) regards B. aslauga and B. diospyri as distinct species.] 



BUNAEA ARENOSA Staudinger. 



<? . Not a Bunaea. Antennae plumose, extreme tip filiform; body and wings uniformly 

 yellow ocher. Fore wings falcate (70 mm. long), costa much curved, outer edge excavated. 

 Hind wing rather long. Palpi small, not reaching the front. Four lines, two intradiscal obscure 

 ones, an oblique brown extradiscal to apex, and a submarginal broken brown line forming a 

 series of about six to seven spots. Ocellus of fore wing an elliptical broad brown ring inclosing 

 a small oval clear spot; on hind wing nearly twice as large, the brown ring wider, a broad straight 

 brown band inside but touching ocellus; a zigzag extradiscal line curving in on inner edge 

 and a submarginal series of six to seven spots as on fore wing. Beneath the same but suffused 

 with brown, and ocelli smaller; clear space the same size, but ring narrower on both wings. 

 [Geographical distribution. — Cameroons]. 



[BUNAEA MELOUI Riel. 



C. Oberthur (Etud Lep. Comp., 1910) has figured several forms of this species raised from 

 pupae obtained at Kaolack, Senegal, by M. Gaston Melou. The variation not only in markings, 

 but in wing form, is astonishing; and as the insects, although raised from larvae, were not appar- 

 ently bred from known parents, we may suspect a mixture of species, or possibly a case of 

 hybridization. Supposing all these meloui to be truly conspecific, Oberthur suggests that 

 these, with B. epithyrena, melinde, pollens and inornata, may all be variations or races of one 

 species. Rothschild considered epithyrena a synonym of irius (Fabr.), which Packard excludes 



from Bunaea.] 



[BUNAEA VINOSA Riel. 



Plate CVII, fig. b.] 



ANTHERLNA Sonthonnax. 



Saturnia Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madagascar Lep., p. 89, 1833. 



Antheraea Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., V, 1855. 



Antheraea Maassen and Weymer, Beitrage Schmett., Ill, fig. 54, 1873. 



Antheraea Kirby, Syn. Cat. Het., I, p. 758, 1892. 



Antherina Sonthonnax, Annales des Laboratoire d'Etude de la Soie, X, p. 56, 1901. 



Imago. — One 9 . Front of head a little narrower, and the hairs longer, more shaggy, not so 

 closely cropped as in Nudaurelia (cytherea), not narrowing quite so much toward the labial 

 region. Antennae "broadly bipectinated nearly to tip," those of the <? also bipectinate, and 

 with pectinations nearly as long as in S . Palpi much as in Nudaurelia, but still longer, especially 

 the third joint, which is unusually long and well developed, when denuded seen to be long and 

 slender. Maxillae minute, slender, white, each appendage separate, short, not so long as the 



