NOTES ON VARIOUS SPECIES OF SATURNIIDR. 267 
I fear I have greatly trespassed on your space and your 
readers’ patience, but I should like to ask, in conclusion, if any 
of the readers of the ‘Entomologist’ can furnish, from personal 
experience, localities and time of appearance for Neptis aceris 
towards its western limits. Perhaps there is only one brood (the 
autumn one) in Western Europe; but to attempt collecting in 
such a spot as the Isonzothal, in August, would be almost 
impossible, in such a year as this, when the thermometer has 
registered in that district 1103° Fahr. in the shade. 
Certosa di Pesio, Sept. 5, 1892. 
NOTES ON VARIOUS SPECIES OF SATURNIIDA, &c., 
BELONGING TO THE GENERA PHILOSAMIA, 
BUNA, ANTHERAA, GYNANISA, ANTOMERIS, 
AND CARTHAA. 
By W. F. Kirsy, F.L.S., F.H.S., Assistant in Zool. Dept., British 
Museum, S. Kensington. 
Genus Puiosamia, Grote. 
Attacus cumingii, Hutton, and A. vesta, Walk., are two 
doubtful forms belonging to this genus. They have never been 
described, and should be erased from our lists. 
Genus Bunma, Hiibn. 
Bunea irius, Faby. 
This insect is said to come from India, but it was described 
from Francillon’s collection, and, notwithstanding the usual 
accuracy of Fabricius in the matter of localities, was more 
probably a species from Sierra Leone, obtained from Smeathman. 
The description appears to indicate an insect allied to Bunea 
tyrrhena, Westw., but larger. 
Genus AnTHEeRmA, Hiibn. 
Antherea paphia, Linn. (dione, Fabr.; simplicia, M. & W.) 
There is little doubt that Linné in his successive works con- 
founded three species under the name of paphia, viz., dione, 
Fabr., mylitta, Drury (or some closely-allied form), and poly- 
phemus, Cram. As, however, he quotes Petiver’s figure of 
A. dione (Pet. Gaz. t. 20, f. 3) as typical, in both the 10th and 
12th editions of his ‘Systema Nature,’ referring to a figure of 
Catesby’s with doubt, Petiver’s species must be regarded as 
typical, although in the ‘Museum Ulrice’ Catesby’s figure, with 
the locality, North America, is given as typical, and is conjoined 
with a figure of Rumphius’, which is again quoted, with the 
additional locality Asia, in the 12th edition of the ‘Systema.’ 
