SAiU:;MA. i05 



ir. llie female the brandies are much shorter, longer on one 

 side than on the other, and the alternate branches are 

 rudimentary. 



The largest species is the Great Peacock Moth {S. pavonia- 

 major, Linn.), which is brown, and measures six inches in 

 expanse. It is common in South Europe, and is found as far 

 north as Paris, where the larva feeds on fruit-trees. Most 

 species of Saluniia arc only half the size of this. 



THE EMPEROR MOTH. SATURNIA PAVONIA-MINOR. 

 {Fla!e CXXL, Fi^: i ; larva, Fi^. 2.) 



Bomhyx pavonia-mmor, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., 

 pp. 496, 497, no. 55 (175S); Esper, Schmett., iii., p. 35^ 

 Taf. 4, figs. 1-6 (1782). 



Bomhyx paiwnia, Linnteus, Faun. Suec, p. 291 (1761). 



Bomhyx carpini, Denis & Schiftermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 

 Wien. p. 50, no. 3 {1776); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett., iii., 

 figs. 53. 54, 255, 256 (1S04?). 



Saturnia carpini, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., iii., p. 6 

 (1810); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and ]\[oths, p. 126, 

 pi. 27, figs. 3a-e (1880); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Butter- 

 flies and Moths, iii., pi 53, figs, i, i a-c (1889) ; Barrett, 

 Lepid. Brit. Isl, iii., p. 57, pis. 97, 98, figs, i, i a, b 



(1895)- 

 Allacus pavoiiia-minor, Godart, Lepid. France, iv,, p. d^, 



pi. 5, figs. 2, 3 (1822). 



Saturnia pavonia, Stephens, 111. Ihit. Ent. Haust., ii., p. 37 



(1828). 



The Emperor Moth is found throughout Europe, as well as 

 in Northern and Western Asia, and is the only species of the 

 Saiuniiidcc indigenous to the British Islands. The female 



