INDO-MALAYAN SATURNIDAE. 181 



NOTE XVIII. 



A NEW GENUS, A NEW SPECIES 



OF ANTHEREA, AND SOME GEOGRAPHICAL RACES 



OF THE GENUS CRICULA (SATURNIDAE) FROM 



THE INDO-MALAYAN REGION 



HENRY WATSON. 



(With plate 8). 



Cricula drejjanoides (Moore), P. Z. S. 1865, p. 817. This 

 must be separated from Cricula (Walk.), Cat. Ilet. B. M. 

 1855, to which genus it appears to have little in common. 

 The only reason for its being- there is a slight resem- 

 blance to C. trifenestmta (Helf.) but for which I propose 

 the name 



Solus^ nov. gen. 



Cells of fore and hind-wing open, there being no discal 

 veins. No trace of veins in the cell '). A branch given off 

 from the subcostal just at the curve, and continued to the 

 apex. Thorax and abdomen weak and frail. Hind-margin 

 of the fore-wing straight, making a right angle with the 

 outer margin. Hind-wing longer than in Cricula being 

 twice the length of the body. 



The fenestrae of Solus are not so completely hyaline as 

 of Cricula and the appearance of these and the frail body 



1) These are the disappearing; veins (see Grote, Proc. South Lonilon Entom. 

 Socy. 1897, The British Day Butterflirs, Fig. 1) and are distinctly thongli 

 faintly found in Cricula proper. In Rhoclia they have commenced to atrophy; 

 in Solus they have disappeared altogether with the discals, so complelcly as 

 to leave no trace of ever having heen there. 



Notes from the Lieyden IMuseum, Vol. XXXV". 



