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Under Side. Palpi, breast, and abdomen grey. Anterior wings white, with very broad and black 

 nerves, forming white oblong spots on the upper side. Posterior wings yellow, with a broad black 

 margin along the external edges, whereon are placed six oval scarlet spots, edged or surrounded with 

 white. Nerves black and broad. Margins of the wings entire. 



Drury correctly considered this species as distinct from the Linnsean Hyparete, and 

 accordingly named it Eucharis. Fabricius, notwithstanding, united the tvi^o species, and 

 applied the name Eucharis to another Indian species (Anthocaris Eucharis of Boisduval, 

 but which it would be more correct to name Aurora after Cramer). Godart, in order tn 

 obviate the confusion arising from two distinct species having the same specific name, altered 

 the oldest name (Eucharis, Drury), instead of the incoiTectly imposed name of Fabricius. 

 I have therefore reverted to the name proposed by Drury, the other species being now 

 removed to the genus Anthocaris. 



SATURNIA PROMETHEA. 



Plate XI. fig. 1, 2. ^.— Plate XII. fig. 1, 2. $. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Noeturna Family: SomhycMad, Steph. 



Genus. Saturnia, 5c7iraHi. Attacus, Gernuir. PhalEena(Attacus), Linn. 



Saturnia Promethea. Alls subfaleatis, maris fuscis, foemina; ferrugineis, fascia teiiui undata commuiii pallida 

 margine griseo, anticis utrinqueocello atro. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc. ^ . 4 uiic. 3 lin. $ .) 



Syn. Phaloena (Attacus) Promethea,- Drury, App. vol. 2. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. 1. 411. No. 12. Gmel. Linn. 

 S. JV. 2403. 464. Cram. Ins. tab. 75. A. B. ^. 76. A. B. J . Abbot ^- Smith Ins. Georgia, 1. tab. 

 46. Oliv. Enc. MHh. 5. 27. 12. Pal. Bauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Lnp. pi. 21. 



Habitat ; New York, Virginia, Georgia. 



Male. — Upper Side. Antennae strongly pectinated, dark brown. Head, thorax, and abdomen the 

 same. Anterior wings very dark chocolate, hooked at the tips ; having a margin of light hair colour 

 running along the external edges from the tips to the lower corners, through the middle of which runs a 

 narrow black serpentine line like a hair, dividing the margin into two shades, the external one being 

 darkest ; near the tips is a black spot like an eye, partly surrounded by a blue iris ; a narrow waved line 

 of a light hair colour begins at the anterior edge, about one-third from the tips, and, crossing both the 

 anterior and posterior wings, ends about half an inch below the body. Posterior wings of the same colour 

 as the anterior, having a hair-coloured margin running round them ; being also divided in the middle by 

 a waved narrow line, above which are several dark-coloured spots and marks. 



Under Side. Breast, legs, and abdomen of a beautiful dark chocolate colour. Anterior wings at the 

 base dark chocolate, with a small single spot in the middle of each ; about a third part of these wings, 

 next the external edges, is hair-coloured, appearing next the chocolate part to be thickly powdered 

 with grey, so as to form a margin along the chocolate part of that colour. The black eye, and hair- 

 coloured margin, as on the upper side. The middle of the posterior wings fine chocolate, surrounded, 

 except at the abdominal edges, with hair colour, and like the superior finely powdered and verged with 

 grey; about the middle of the chocolate field is a small transverse white streak; the hair-coloured 

 margin less distinct. Margins of all the wings entire. 



