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Mr. McMullen (in litt.) tells me "I have found the Attacus on the Samalu hedges. This 

 tree grows extensively in south India, around villages. I have found most on a wdd trailing 

 plant of which I do not know the name. I will send you pieces of these." Further he says that 

 the female larva) which he has found for me are 8 inches long, slightly stretched when feeding. 

 The cocoons, of which I have some, are about the size of wild cocoons of atlas; the silk, however, 

 is coarser and very dark brown, similar to that of the Bornean atlas. There are at least two 

 broods per year. The cocoons which I have received are enveloped in sometimes single leaves 

 and sometimes two or three, which resemble in method of growth bramble leaflets; the upper 

 surface when dried is very dark green and the under surface is white and woolly. — J. H. Watson.] 



[Rothschild states (Nov. Zool., II, 1895) that Attacus lorquinii Felder, from the Philippines, 

 is a vahd species, not a subspecies of A. atlas. It is known as the ilang-ilang moth hi the Philip- 

 pine Islands; cf. A. F. Navarro, Philippine Agr. and Forester, I (1911), No. 2. 



Fruhstorfer (Ent. Meddel., II (1904), pp. 283-290, and Soc. Ent., XVIII (1904), p. 169) 

 has described various subspecies and varieties of A. atlas.] 



ATTACUS CAESAR Maass. and Weym. 



In Attacus caesar Maass. and Weym., from Mindanao, Philippines, there is a still greater 

 specialization of the clear discal space and its outlines, there being in 9 two instead of one 

 accessory cell, one in each of two last subcostal cells, and ocellus in hind wing merges into a 

 white branched extradiscal band which passes down to the inner edge of the wing. The male 

 is very different, the ocellus is divided into two small remote spots, and there is only one trian- 

 gular small spot in last subcostal cell. 



Length of fore wings, <S 11^ cm.; 9 12cm. 



ATTACUS EDWARDSU White. 



Plate XL VI, fig. 1; LXXX, fig. 9; LXXX'VII; LXXXVIII, figs./, g; XCI, fig. b. 



Attacus edwardsii White, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 115, PI. LVII, 1859. — Moore, Cat. Lep. Mua. E. I. House, II, 

 p. 406, No. 928, 1859.— Butler, Illustrations of Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., V, p. 60, PI. XCII, S ; XCIII, 9, 1881 — 

 Kirbt, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 745, 1892. 



[Geographical distribution. — North India.] 



[Mr. J. H. Watson proposes a new genus for A. edwardsii and A. staudingeri, as given below.] 



ATTACUS DOHERTYI Rothschild. 



Attacus dohertyi Rothschild, Nov. Zool., II (1895), p. 36, PI. X, fig. 1, <? . 



Geographical distribution. — Timor and Flores. [Rothschdd (1910) has described a subsp. 

 wardi from Port Darwin, Australia.] 



ATTACUS AURANTIACUS Rothschild. 

 Attacus aurantiacus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., II (1895), p. 36. 



Geographical distribution. — Northwest New Guinea. 



ATTACUS STAUDINGERI Rothschild. 



Attacus staudingeri Rothschild, Nov. Zool., II (1895), p. 36, PI. X, fig. 2, o* . 



Geographical distribution. — Northwest Java. 



ATTACUS CRAMERI Felder. 



Plate XLVI, fig. 2. 



[Attacus crameri Felder, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien., XLIII (1861), p. 31; Amboina. 



Attacus (?) cydippe [Druce, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) XIII (1894), p. 178; Mexico] is not 

 an Attacus. It is small, and has a median line just outside of lanceolate white ocelli, and an 

 extradiscal band. 



