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parallel to and at a small distance from the posterior edge, towards the lower corner ; stopping at about 

 one-third from the external edge, from whence near the end of this line arises two others, which run 

 almost to the anterior edges. Posterior wings red in the middle ; surrounded, except on the abdominal 

 edges, by a broad black margin. 



Under Side. Palpi hairy and black. Breast, legs, and abdomen black. Wings as on the other 

 side ; but the colours are not so bright and distinct. Margins of the wings entire. 



SATURNIA EPIMETHEA. 



Plate XIII. fig. 1. 



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

 GENns. Saturnia, Schranh. Attacus, Gerinar. Phalaeua (Attacus), Lbm. 



Saturnia Epimethea. Alls subfustis atriga communi subapicali alba, posticis acute angulatis, ocello disci 

 fulvo margine nigro. 



Syn. PhalEena (Attacus) Epimethea, Drury, Append, vol. 2. Fab. Etit. Si/st. 111. 1. 414. JVo. 23. Gmel. 

 Linn. S. N. 2404. 472. Cramer, Ins. 13. tab. 17G./. A. OUv. Bnc. MHh. 5. 29. 21. 



Habitat : New Calabar, Coast of Guinea. 



Upper Side. Antennae strongly pectinated ; the extremities appearing like threads. Thorax light 

 brown, tinged with red. Abdomen grey brown. Anterior wings light grey brown, tinged with red at 

 the base ; having a narrow dark-coloured bar verged with grey running from the anterior to the posterior 

 edges, parallel and at a little distance from the external margin. Posterior wings grey brown, temii- 

 nating behind in points like acute angles; a dark narrow bar, edged with white, crosses these wings from 

 the upper corners to the abdominal edges, dividing them into two compartments ; in the uppermost of 

 which are placed two eyes, whose centres are yellow, surrounded with black irides edged with red, 

 and which also are encircled with ash-coloured rings. Above these eyes the wings are dark-coloured, 

 almost black ; but next the body are of a reddish hue. 



Under Side. Legs black. Thorax and abdomen same colour as on the upper side. Wings 

 nearly the same colour as on the upper side ; the bars being plain and distinct, but the eyes are not 

 observable here. 



DRYOCAMPA VIRGINIENSIS. 



Plate XIII. fig. 2. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Noctunia. Family-: Bombycidee, Steph. 



Genus. Dryocampa, Harris in Hitchcocli's Beport on the Geology, §-c. of Massathusets (Amherst Mass. 

 1834. roy. 8to.) 



Dryocampa Virginiensis. Alis cerviuis, anticis puncto parvo discoidali albo, fasciaque obliqua pallidiori. 

 (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 7 lin.) 



Syn. Phalaeua (Bombyx) Virginiensis, Drury, Append, vol. 2. 

 Phala?na pellucida. Abbot If Smith Ins. Georg. t. 58? 

 Phatena Astjoiome? OUv. Enc. Mith. 5. 43. 73. 



Habitat : Virginia. 



Upper Side. Antennae setaceous. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark orange. Wings faint fox- 

 coloured ; immaculate, except the anterior ones, which have a faint light spot on each, about a third of 



