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XX. Descriptions of New Species of Bombyces from North 
Eastern India. By Freprertc Moore. 
[Read 5th June, 1865. ] 
1. Bompyx SHERwILLI, n. sp. (PI. XXII. fig. 1.) 
Female.—Greyish-brown. Fore-wing with two dark brown curved 
lines near the base, and a third obliqtely traversing the disc from 
the costa to the inner margin, two short lines at the end of 
the discoidal cell, and a submarginal line recurving from near 
the apex to the outer angle, the falcated space at the apex 
being fuliginous. Hind-wing darker brown, with numerous mi- 
nute grey irrorations, and having a_ pale-margined submarginal 
line ; on the inner margin are two black and white spots. Body 
with a dark ashy waistband and a black anal tuft. 
Expanse of female 23 inches. 
Habitat. N. E. India (Capt. J. L. Sherwill). 
Remark.—This species is allied to Bombyx Huttoni, Westw., 
but may be distinguished from it by being somewhat larger and 
of a greyer colour, the fore-wing having the apical patch fuli- 
ginous instead of black, and it has only a single transverse discal 
streak. A prominent character is that the abdomen is tipt with 
black. See this species noticed, ante, p. 324. 
2. Saturnia Crvosa, n. sp. (PI. XXII. fig. 2.) 
Wings milky-white, each with an ordinary-sized black ocellus, 
with a yellow circle partly surrounded by a bluish-white lunule, 
and a central vitreous streak. Across the dise is a dark zig-zag 
double line, terminating at the apex by black streaks and bounded 
outwardly by a broad brown band; outer margin pale brown ; 
near the base of the wing an irregular dark brown band, mar- 
gined inwardly with pink. Thorax and abdominal tuft brown. 
Expanse 43 inches. 
Habitat. N. E. India (Capt. J. L. Sherwill). 
VOL. Il. THIRD SERIES, PART V.—SEPT. 1865. HH 
