344 Mr. A. White's Descriptions of new species 



bluish-black line ; this yellow " saddle '^ is margined with black, 

 especially in front and behind ; the tibise are greenish. 



5. Stigmodera funerea, White. S. subcupraceo-nigra, elytris fasciis 

 4, ochraceo-flavis, lateribus flavo connexo jugatis. Long. unc. 1, 

 lin. 3. 



Hab. Australia, King Geo. Sound (Capt. Geo. Grey). Brit. Mus. 



This species comes close to S. variabilis and Kingii : it has 

 striated deep black elytra, with four transverse ochrey yellow 

 bands connected in pairs at the sides. The thorax, legs, and 

 under parts are of a unifoi*m deep shining black j the thorax be- 

 low is covered with cinereous hairs. 



6. Stigmodera conspicillata, White. S. testacea fasciis viridibus, 

 thorace convexo, antice angustato viridi macula laterali flaves- 

 cente. Long. lin. 11 — 15. 



Hah. Australia (Swan River). Brit. Mus. : Dr. Richardson, F.R.S. 



Elytra striated, of a testaceous yellow colour, with two violet- 

 green transverse bands, the anterior not reaching the outer mar- 

 gin, second reaching the outer margin, and connected by a nar- 

 row line of the same colour with a large violet-green spot on the 

 apex ; the base is narrowly margined with green. Thorax very 

 convex and small, narrowed in front, above green, with a yellow- 

 ish spot on each side ; sides beneath yellow, the yellow reaching 

 the margin above in front and connected behind with the yellow 

 spot. Body beneath yellow. Head, scutellum, legs, segments of 

 abdomen behind and at the base edged with green, which is 

 macular on the sides. 



In one specimen (a smaller variety) the elytra are yellow, and 

 have only the narrow green margin at the base and the large 

 violet-blue spot on the apex. 



Lepidoptera. 



BOMBYCID^. 



7. Saturnia Helena, White, n. sp. S. ochraceo-fulva ; alis superis 

 apice subrosaceis, macula nigra postica, alis ambobus linea trans- 

 versa (post mediam currente) triseriatim colorata, ocello paululum 

 fenestrato ochraceo-rufo, lunula subcserulea nigroque annulate ; 

 corpore subtus, capite, antennis pedibusque subaurantiacis, tarsis 

 nigro-annulatis. Exp. alar. $ unc. 6 — 6|: ; (^ 5^. 



Hah. Australia. Brit. Mus. Hardw. Bequest and J. Hunter, Esq. 



In shape and general appearance not far removed from the 

 Saturnia Paphia (L.), Mijlitta (Drury), the well-known Tusseh 

 silk-moth, whose history is given by Dr. Roxburgh in the ' Lin- 

 nsean Transactions.' 



8. Saturnia /awe^^a, White, n. sp. S. ochraceo-brunnea ; alis superis 

 linea subbasali W notata ; macula parva fenestrata brunneo cir- 



