16 NEW LEPIDOPTERA. 



Phaloena maxima e Chusan, Petiver, Gaz. t. 18./. 3. ? 

 Bombyx Wallichii, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1. p. 39. 

 Bombyx spectabilis, Hope, Linn. Trans, xviii. p. 443, pi. 31, 

 /3. 



Wings rounded, fore-wings above bay black-spotted, black 

 cross-banded at the base, the hinder half of the outer end with 

 numerous parallel slightly waved narrow lines ; the hinder wings 

 above black with a broad yellowish margin, varied with nu- 

 merous parallel wavy blackish lines ; wings beneath black with 

 a broad yellow margin varied with very narrow obscure wavy 

 lines; antennas pale brown, strongly pectinated ; the body black 

 with the abdominal rings brown-edged. 



Expanse of wings six inches. 



Inhdb. Nepal. 



E. NEWMAN, PRINTER, DEVONSHIRE STREET, B1SH0PSGATE. 



