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various colours on tlic Ijind wings, nnd a vi'reous triangular 

 or conical spot on the fore-wings. The latter are rather long 

 and pointed, and the hind wings rounded, more or less lobate, 

 or even sub-caudate. 



GENUS ANTIIER/EA. 



AiiiJiercEa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 122 (1822?); 

 Walker, IJst Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus., v., p. 1239 (1855) j 

 Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, ii., p. 121 (1883). 



This genus, even though restricted to A. viylitta (Drury) 

 and its immediate allies, is one of the most extensive of the 

 Saturniidie, and is represented by a considerable number of 

 yellow, fawn-coloured, and brown species in Asia and Africa, 

 mostly averaging five or six inches in expanse. There is 

 generally a large round ocellus on each wing, w^hich is some- 

 times entirely opaque, but frequently consists almost wholly 

 of a large round vitreous spot, or contains one in the centre. 

 The antennoe are strongly pectinated, especially in the male, 

 and the fore-wings are rather pointed, and in the male usually 

 more or less falcate ; the hind margin is oblique, and rounded 

 off at the hinder angle. The hind-wings are rounded. A 

 white line, bordered inside with red or brown, crosses all the 

 wings near to, and parallel with, the hind margin ; and there 

 are some indistinct transverse brown lines on various parts of 

 the wn'ngs. Tlie larvie construct a large egg-shaped cocoon, 

 and the silk of several species is of great value in India, China, 

 and Japan. 



THE TUSSEII SILKWORM MOTH. ANTHER/EA MYLITTA. 

 {PIdfe CXK, Fig. 2; larva and cocoon, Pia/e CXVIIL, Figs. 2, 3.) 

 jlltaciis mylitta^ Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii , pi. 5, fig. i (1773). 



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