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ANTHERAEA MYLITTA (Druiy). 



Plate XXVIII, fig. 1; CIV. 



ANTHERAEA PAPHIA (LinnS). 



Plate XL VII, fig. 1. 



[The following notes are from a blown larva in the Paris Museum, referred to "A. paphia 

 L. (mylitta Drury)":] ' 



Larva. — Shape and size of Telea polyphemus; head chestnut, deeply incised above the 

 clypeus; thoracic segments convex; second and third, and first abdominal angular; pro thoracic 

 segment with a lateral well marked tubercle in front of spiracle, and one, more prominent, 

 below; other lateral tubercles on rest of body minute, and greenish. Two dorsal tubercles 

 of second and third thoracic segments quite large, golden yellow in front, the posterior more 

 membranous part with six small tuberculets bearing small stiff hairs, one larger than the others. 

 Homologous tubercles (two dorsal) on first abdominal segment one-third smaller than the others, 

 while those on segment 2 are a little smaller, and those on the other segments are a little smaller 

 still, and give rise to a single dark hair and two or three small hairs. The dorsal tubercle on 

 eighth abdominal segment is represented by two separate (a mm. apart) minute yelloioish low 

 flattened tubercles, each bearing a single hair, not to be seen in profile as also in Moore's figure 

 (Lep. Ceylon, vol. 2, PI. 125, lb.). Entire body green; a lateral reddish line, widening on 

 side of suranil plate, which is green above, as rest of body. Abdominal legs with black 

 short hairs; anal legs behind reddish, forming a large triangular spot, apex toward planta. 

 Spiracles yellow with a black ring within. Thoracic legs reddish. A white spot above second 

 abdominal spiracle (Moore makes two crescentic white [spots] above second and third abdom- 

 inal spiracles). [Length about 77 mm.] 



In earlier stages, half as large, all the tubercles larger, red, with stiff hairs as in other genera; 



see Moore's figure. 



TELEA Hlibner. 



[Telea Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett (1822?), p. 154.] 



[The primaries have ten veins; vein 7 and 8 form a long stalk out of the subcostal, and vein 

 9 also from the subcostal, very close to the inception of vein 8. There is thus an essential 

 difference between this genus and Actias, in which vein 9 is from the same stalk with 7 and 8. 

 The dorsal vein is furcate, rather a'n unusual feature in this group. The secondaries are, as 

 usual, 8-veined, vein 7 very strongly curved. — J. B. Smith, Proc. U. S. Natl. Museum, IX (1886), 

 p. 429. That is to say, IIIj originates far basad, being the first vein to separate from the radius, 

 as in Eacles. III 2 is absent, III 3 and III 4 separate at about the same level as rVj and IV 2 , the 

 common stalks of each pair joining just beyond the origin (separation) of IIL..] 



TELEA POLYPHEMUS (Cramer). 



Plate XVII, figs. 3-5; XVIII; L, fig. 1; LVI; LXVI, figs. 1, 2 (ocuka); LXXIV, fig. 1. 



[Attacus polyphemus Cramer, Pap. Exot., I, t. 5A,B (1775). 



Bombyx polyphemus Fabricius, Spec. Ins., II, p. 168, n. 5 (1781). 



Telea polypheme Hubner, Samml. Ex. Schmett II, (1S24?). 



Telea polyphemus W. F. Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 751 (1892).] 



Telea polyphemus Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, p. 792, June 7, 1904. 



Imago. — Four 3 , four ? , and others examined. Body and wings tawny ochreous brown, 

 varying from a paler to a deeper shade. Prothorax and costal edge of fore wings whitish gray, 

 becoming less distinct on the under side. Fore wings, tawny ochreous brown, brighter clear 

 ochreous on the margin of both wings beyond the submarginal band. Within the basal lino 

 also slightly clearer ochreous, being freer from black scales. Basal lino widely dislocated on the 



1 [This must be .4. mylitta (Drury); syn. paphia Cramer, not Linne. The Linnean paphia is given in Kirby 's Catalogue as equal to Nudaurclia 

 dione, but Rothschild considers it to be an entirely different thing, and identical with Antheraeajajia (Stoll) and rumphii Felder, supposed species 

 described from Java and Amboina, respectively.] 



