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Yellowish olive-brown, densely irrorate with black except 

 along the border of wings. Abdomen with three rows of white 

 tufts. Transverse lines white, bordered on one side with black, 

 the outer line shading outwardly into a light purplish tint. Discal 

 marks narrowly lunate, hyaline, with a yellow shade on the con- 

 cave side. A sub-apical black ocellus with white crescent, below 

 a large apical purplish shade. Expanse, 120 mm. 



Habitat^ Vicinity of several Atlantic coast cities ; introduced 

 from the East Indies. 



Genus Attacus Liniuciis. 



\-]b-i~Altacus LlNN.EUS, Syst. Nat., Vol. I (2), p. 809. 

 1841 — Hyalophora Duncan, Nat. Libr. Ex. moths, p. 124. 



Synopsis of species. 



Color rather light-brown, collar only partly white 

 Dark blackish-brown, collar white 



erycina. 

 jorulla. 



A. erycina Shaw. 



1797 — A ttaciis erycina Shaw, Nat. Misc., Vol. VII, p. 230. 

 \%o<^'>. —riialccna spleudidus Beauvois, Ins. Afr. Amer. , p. 133. 



Discal spots trigonate, large, hyaline, fused into the outer 

 band. Color pale russet-brown, clay- colored on margins, with the 

 usual markings. T. a. band arcuate, white, both t. a. and t. p. 

 bordered towards each other by black. Beyond the crenate t. p. 

 band a shade composed of brick-red, black, pink and white scales. 

 Sub-median space irrorate with black. Sub-terminal marks moder- 

 ately prominent. Sub-apical ocellus reduced to a black spot 

 surmounted by the lower part of the narrow white sub-apical line. 



Habitat, South America to Mexico, Texas ? 



A. jorulla Westwood. 



1853 — Satitniia jomlla Westwood, ' Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 159, pi. 



XXXII, f. I. 

 1883 — Attacus ductus Tepper, Bull. lirook. Ent. .Soc, Vol. V, p. 65. 



Deep blackish umber-brown, the wings less falcate than in 

 erycina. Discal spots rounded triangular, hyaline ; not reaching 

 or but touching outer band. Otherwise resembles erycina except 

 that the collar is white. The transverse white band at base of 

 abdomen is present in both. Expanse, no — 125 mm. 



Habitat, Mexico, Arizona. 



