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Under Side. Body black, and ornamented with round spots of clear white. At the base of the wings, 

 is a remarkable round spot of a clear white, about the size of a pin's head. The wings are spotted as on 

 the upper side, the greenish spots being rather larger, and in the inferior wings inclining to a yellow, the 

 general ground of all the wings appearing more sooty on this side. 



LIMACODES? ARENACEA. 



Plate XVIII. fig. 1. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Bombycidse. 



Genus. Limacodes? Latr. Apoda, Haworth. Heterogenea, ifHocA. Phalsena Bombyx, iinw. 



LiMACODES? ARENACEA. Lutea, alis superioribus supra atomis nigris adspersis. (Expaus. Alar. 1 imc. 3 lin.) 



SvN. Phal£ena(Bombyx) arenacea, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2.p.62S. No. C.5. 



Habitat ; Cape of Good Hope. 



Upper Side. Antennae pectinated, and of a yellow clay colour. The head and thorax yellow, but 

 covered over with hairs in such manner that the fonner cannot be distinguished. The abdomen, superior 

 and inferior wings yellow. On the anterior wings appear some very minute black spots scattered thereon 

 in a very irregular manner. The wings are entire 



Under Side. The thighs, breast, and abdomen are very hairy. The superior and inferior wings of 

 the same yellow colour as on the upper side, without a mark of any kind. 



This insect appears most nearly to approach the genus Limacodes, Latr. 



SATURNIA CECROPIA. 



Plate XVIII. fig. 2. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Bombycidse. 



Genus. SArvRHiA., Schrank. Latr. Attacns, Germar. Phalsena (Bombyx), iinn. §-e. 



Saturnia Cecropia. Alis anticis subfalcatis, posticis rotundatis ; omnibus griseis fascia communi fulva maculaque 

 reniformi ocelloque apicali (in anticis) ornatis. (Expaus. Alar. 6 unc. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Liim. Syst. Nat. v. 2. p. 809. No. 3. Cramer, Ins. 4. tab. 42./. A. B. Catesby Carol. 86. t. 86. Abbot 

 and Smith, Ins. Georgia, tab. 45. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. I. p. 408. No. 4. Gmel. Linn. S. N. 2401. 3. 

 Oliv. Enc. Mith. 5. p. 25. 5. 



Habitat: New York (Dritr;/). North America (iinn.^-c). 



Upper Side. Antenna very broad, pectinated and black. The head is small and red. Neck white. 

 Thorax covered with long orange-brovirn hairs. Abdomen alternately with broad stripes of white and 

 orange brown, the latter being edged behind with black. Anterior wings, with two bars crossing from 

 the anterior to the posterior edges, one at about three-fourths of an inch from the shoulders, whitish, 

 edged on the outside with black ; the other is orange, at about an inch distance from the external 

 margin. The base of the wing is a fine orange brown. The middle is deep rusty brown, which, towards 

 the upper part, is powdered with buff-coloured hairs. In the middle of this is a large white spot verged 

 with black, somewhat resembling a kidney bean, and is broadly tinged behind with red brown. The 

 extremhy of this wing, next the bar, is the same dark brown, and powdered, having a black spot about 



