Linnaan Society. 303'- 



Saturnia Melvtlla, Westw. >S. alis sulphureo-fulvis , anticis 



versus basin obscure angulato-fasciatis ocello parvo medio rotun- 



^ dato in medio vitreo cameo bicingulato, fascia lata subcinerea 



o intus striga undata fusco-ferruginea et extus serie macularum 



■i: ejusdem coloris inclusa; posticis ocello minimo cceco cameo, fascia 



subcinerea versus costam oblilerata similiter inclusa. ^ 



Expans. alar, maris unc. A\. 



Hah. in Melville Island. In Mas. Hope. 



This species agrees in the general orange colour of its wings with 

 S. Lavendera, as well as in the small size of the round ocelli in the 

 middle of all the wings ; but the slightly ashy fascia on the wings, 

 between the ocellus and the apical margin, is much more uniform in 

 width and nearly straight ; the fore wings are slightly but acutely 

 hooked at the tips ; the fore margin is ashy-coloured, as is also the 

 fore margin of the thorax ; in the middle of the discoidal cell is a 

 scarcely distinct light-brown angulated fascia, which is continued 

 (although much nearer the base) across the wing to the inner mar- 

 gin, being also angulated in this portion ; in the middle of the wing 

 is a small round ocellus, the centre being vitreous, edged with bright 

 red, succeeded by a ring of buff, which is surrounded by another 

 slender ring of red ; at a short distance beyond the ocellus is a red- 

 dish brown undulated striga running across the wing, nearly parallel 

 with the apical margin, the waves following the same direction as in 

 S. Lavendera, and not as in S. Jorulla ; this striga forms the inner 

 margin of a moderately wide greyish fulvous space, which is inclosed 

 on its outside by a corresponding row of reddish brown lunular spots, 

 the one next the costa being the widest ; the moderately wide apical 

 margin is uniformly pale orange. The hind wings have a very indi- 

 stinct curved fascia at some distance from the base, darkest next the 

 anal margin, as is the case with the other markings of these wings. 

 The central ocellus is not above half the size of that of the fore wings ; 

 the centre consists of a small round bright claret-red dot inclosed 

 within an orange ring, and this within a very fine red one. This is 

 followed by a rather strongly dentated striga of reddish brown, fol- 

 lowed by a row of small lunular spots of the same colour, the inclosed 

 space being irrorated with grey atoms. m'.uj - ; jiu 



The antennae are fulvous- red and broadly feathered, lijrixim fi?')iqjj 



Pi ' LINN^AN SOCIETY. 



April 4, 1854. — Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



- Read a pajier entitled •' Remarks relative to the Affinities and 

 Analogies of Natural Objects, more particularly of Hypocephalus, a 

 genus of Coleoptera." By John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S. &c. 



Mr. Curtis commences his paper by a reference to the numerous 

 attempts made of late years to establish a perfectly natural system, 

 which, he believes, will never be attained. In our progress towards 

 the establishment of such a system, we are sure to find di&turbing^ 

 forces, producing aberrant types of form, which, like discordant. 



