﻿224 BOMBYCES. 



Genus Attacus. 

 1535. Attacus atlas. 



Phaleena atlas, Linn., Mus. Lud-Ulr, p. 366, (1764). 



Syst. Nat. i, ii, p. 808, (1767). 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 381, fig. C, and pi. 382, 



fig. A, (1781), also i, pi 9, fig. A, var., (1775). 

 JBombyx atlas, Fabr., Syst. Ent. 1, p. 556, (1775). 



■ Sp. Ins. ii, p. 167, (1781). 



Mant. Ins. ii, p. 108, (1787). 



Ent. Syst. iii, i, p. 407, (1793). 



Olivier, Enc. Meth. Ins. v, 24, pi. 69, fig. 1.* 



Attacus atlas, Hiibner, Vera. Bek. Schmett. pp. 156, 1625, (1816). 



Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. v, p. 1218, (1855). 



■ ' Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E, I. C. ii, p. 405, pi. xx, figs. 2, 



2a, (1859). 

 - Moore, Wardle's Wild Silks of India, p. 4, pis. 9, 10, (1881). 



Saturnia silhetica, var., Heifer, Journ. As. 3oc. Beng. vi, p. 41, (1837). 



I. M., Sylhet, Sibsagar (Moti Ram), Cachar (Hutton?), Mus- 

 sooree (Hutton?), Almora (Hutton?), Sikkim (Barnes), 

 Buxa (Moti Ram), Perak (purchased), Johore. 



Collection, Swinhoe, Belgaum, Nilgiri Hills, Darjiling, Khan- 

 dalla. 



Also recorded from Ceylon and Java. 



J 536. Attacus canningii. 



Attacus canningii, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxxii, p. 525, (1865). 

 Moore, Wardle's Wild Silks of India, p. 5, (1881). 



N.-W. Himalayas. 



1537. Attacus cynthia. 



Phaleena {Attacus) cynthia, Drury, Exot. Ins. ii, pi. 6, fig. 2, (1773). 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. i, pi. 39, fig. A, (1775). 



Bombyx cynthia, Oliv., Enc. Meth. v, 33, 26. 



Samia cynthia, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 156, 1629, (1816). 



Phaleena cynthia, Roxburg, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vii, p. 42, pi 3. 



Heifer, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vi, p. 45, pi. 5, (1837). 



Saturnia cynthia, Westw., Ed. Drury. ii, p. 12, pi. 6. fi^. 2, (1837).* 

 Attacus cynthia, Walker, Cat Lep. Het. B. M. v, p. 1220, (1855). 

 Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus.E. I. C. ii, p. 407, pi. 20, figs. 3, 



3a, (1859). 



Wardle's Wild Silks of India, p. 4, pi. 19, figs. 



1, 2. (1881). 

 I. M., Sikkim (Barnes), Buxa (Moti Ram), Simla, Sibsagar 



(Peal), Cachar (Hutton), Shillong, Sylhet. 

 Collection Swinhoe, Simla, Nilgiri Hills. 

 Also recorded from Java, China, and Tasmania. 



1538. Attacus edwardsii. 



Attacus edwardsii, White, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1859, p. 115, pi. 57. 



Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii, p. 406, (1859). 



Walker, Cat. Lep. rlet. B. M. xxxii, p. 524, (1865). 



Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. (v), p. 60, pi. 92, 93,(1881). 



Moore, Wardle's Wild Silks of India, p. 4, (1881). 



1. M., Shillong, Sikkim (Barnes). 

 Allied to A. atlas. 



