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NEW AMERICAN SATUBNIIDAE AND CERATO- 



CAMP1DAE. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Pn.D. 



1. Rothschildia chiris spec. nov. 



c?. Similar to K. aurota I Iram. (1775). Branches of the antenna a little longer. 

 Claspers much more extended tawny. Legs and metanotum less white. Ground- 

 colour more or less deep chestnut, at least in centre of wings on upperside. 



Forewiug : white (sernitrausparent) discal line straight from costa to two-thirds 

 of hindmargin, strongly undulate, its black border broad, not sharply defined on 

 basal side, the blackish brown line outside the white line less shaded with white 

 scales than in R. aurota; the broad whitish pink lobate band very distinct ; the 

 halfmoon situated outside the black subapical submarginal spot rilled in with two 



black spots ; vitreous patch triangular, the proximal margin incurved. Hindwing : 



the submarginal spots all black, the upper ones alone being faintly reddish ; the 

 vitreous patch triangular, with the proximal edge incurved. 



On underside the pinkish white subapical area of forewiug separated from 

 the pinkish white band by two patches of the ground-colour; the halfmoon which 

 stands outside the black subapical spot bears a black dot, not a red one ; the 

 submarginal spots of hindwing black, except the five upper ones, which are reddish. 

 Upper lobe of clasper much wider than in the various forms of R. aurota, the lower 

 lobe on the contrary reduced to a slender non-spatnlate process. 



Hab. S. Domiugo, Carabaya, South-East Pern, 6000 ft., June and July, dry 

 season (G. R. Ockenden). 



2SS. 



2. Rothschildia orizaba peruviana subsp. nov. 



S. Similar to the c? of the preceding subspecies. The discal line of both 

 wings still more strongly dentate. The transparent spot larger, on the basal side 

 incurved or straight. All the submarginal spots of the underside of the 

 hindwing red. 



Hab. Carabaya, South-East Pern : La Oroya, Rio Inambari, 3100 ft, and 

 Tingnri, 3400 ft. 



5 SS. 



3. Rothschildia orizaba equatorialis subsp. nov. 



cT bright tawny, ? ochraceous; the disc also in d more or less ochraceous 

 between the buff submarginal spots and the white-shaded pinkish fuscous discal 

 area. Discal line of both wings strongly dentate, the pinkish fuscous area situated 

 outside the same broader than in Mexican specimens, and the white scaling of this 

 area less dense. On forewiug the halfmoon situated distally to the black subapical 

 spot filled in with red ; the white line standing proximally to the subapical spot 

 straight. The proximal edge of the transparent spot rounded, rarely almost 

 straight, the spot rather small on hindwing, with the proximal edge strongly 



