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the tip, the lower division to the outer margin below the tip, and the 

 posicostal itself extending to the upper angle of the emargination be- 

 low the apical truneature of the wing ; the transverse vein closing 

 the discoidal cell emits a vein from its centre, and joins the third 

 branch of the median vein at a short distance beyond its origin ; the 

 hind wings have the branches of the median vein arising near the anal 

 margin of the wing, and the discoidal cell is closed by a very oblique 

 vcinlet, which emits a vein above its middle, which vein extends to 

 the anterior extremity of the tail of these wings. 



Saturnia Thibeta, Westw. >S. alls anticis fiavis, squamis gri- 

 seis, prasertim pone medium, variegatis, striga angusta valde ob- 

 liqva prope basin; omnibus ocello fere cequali, ovali, medio, extus 

 '^)r\ fulvo, puncto nigro incluso ; pone medium lineis duabus contiguis 

 valde undulatis, macula parva nigra obliqua strigaque carnea ob- 

 liqua contigua, subapicnlibus ; posticis basi subcarneo, medio jiavo 

 variegatis, striga arcuata inter basin et medium lineisque tribus 

 obscurioribus pone ocellum, fascia lata submarginali griseo-fusca 

 lunulisque fulvis externis. ^ 

 Expans. alar, antic, unc. 5. 



^«6. Thibet. In Mus. Westwood. i 



This species is closely allied to the Sat. Simla, Westw., figured iofi 

 the * Cabinet of Oriental Entomology,' pi. 20. fig. 1, but differs both 

 in the colour and the position of the markings. The fore wings are 

 yellow, much varied with grey scales, especially at the base of the 

 costa and beyond the middle : at a short distance from the base a 

 slender red striga runs very obliquely across the wing. In the middle 

 of all the wings is a moderate-sized oval ocellus, with a small black 

 dot in the middle, marked on its inner edge with a curved white line, 

 the outer part being liver-coloured, edged with a black ring. Out- 

 side the ocellus the wings bear a darker fulvous, ill-defined, very ob- 

 lique fascia, followed by two slender very strongly undulating dark 

 lines ; the undulations being much stronger towards the tip of the 

 wing, where the outer one is connected with a white curved line, like 

 a U, which ends on the costa in an oval black patch, and is bounded 

 on its outside by a slender rich red-brown line ; parallel and near the 

 apical margin is an interrupted slender black striga, followed by a 

 row of submarginal fulvous oblong spots. The ocellus of the hind 

 wings is preceded by a curved dark brown line, and is followed by 

 three slender very much undulated lines, the two next the ocellus 

 being chestnut and the outer one black ; beyond the last is a broad 

 greyish fascia edged outwardly with a slender interrupted black line, 

 followed by a row of fulvous oblong sublunulated spots. Beneath the 

 wings are similarly marked but more uniformly coloured, being fuK 

 vous buff without the grey scales. -^ 



The antennae are about 32-jointed, each joint emitting two branches 

 on each side, the branches of the central joints being moderately 

 elongate and gradually diminishing in length to the tip of the an- 

 tennae. The body, legs and antennae are fulvous yellow, the front 

 of the thorax with a grey band. 



