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Since naming the above I have received another specimen 

 collected by Mr. French at Carbondale, 111., in June. This shows 

 the species to have quite a wide distribution. The specimen dif- 

 fers from the other only in having no black on the posterior tarsi, 

 but all the tarsi and tibiae a little lighter yellow. 



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THREE NEW AFRICAN BOMBYCIDS. 



By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



SATURNIID^E. 

 BUNAEA Hub. 



i. B. gootlii sp. nov. $. In the form of wings and in size allied to B. 

 milfordi Kirby, with the type of which I have compared it, but from which 

 it differs very materially. Antennae blackish. Front dark brown, with a 

 conspicuous white spot at the base of each of the antennae; the upper- 

 side of the thorax is dark fawn; the upperside of the abdomen pale 

 fawn; the lowerside of the thorax and abdomen is pale fawn, inclining to 

 whitish; the legs are dark brown; the primaries are fawn, except the outer 

 margin, which is paler, inclining to whitish near the outer angle; the line 

 of demarcation between this pale outer area and the darker body of the 

 wing is straight, running from the costa a little before the apex to the 

 inner margin nearly three-fourths of the distance from the base; there is 

 an irregularly zigzagged basal line of dark brown and at the end of the 

 cell a hyaline dot surrounded by a dark brown ring denned externally by 

 pale fawn; the secondaries have the ground color on the inner half of the 

 wing as on the primaries; the costal margin is broadly laved with bright 

 pink; the wing is marked by a very large ocellus, having a hyaline spot 

 in the middle, the pupil being velvety-black, irrorated with bright blue 

 scales about the middle; the iris is pale yellowish, very broad, and denned 

 externally by a diffuse brownish line which coalesces with a transverse line 

 running from the inner edge of the ocellus to the inner margin about the 

 middle. On the underside the primaries are fawn, with the inner margin 

 broadly reddish; at the end of the cell the ocellus of the upperside reap- 

 pears, but more .distinctly denned; the line separating the lighter marginal 

 area from the darker inner area reappears upon the lowerside as a heavy 

 brown line; the marginal tract on the lowerside is very little paler than 

 the body of the wing; the underside of the secondaries is fawn, profusely 

 marked with whitish scales on the basal half; there is a dark brown cir- 

 cular spot near the base, and a dark brown transverse line running from 

 the outer angle to near the middle of the inner angle; the ocellus, which 

 is so conspicuous upon the upperside of the posteriors, on the underside 

 is obsolete, being indicated by the hyaline dot and a broad patch of whitish 



