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side and joins the central white fascia ; the apical portion is coloured 
as in the fore-wings. The lunule is smaller and more curved than in 
the fore-wings, but similarly coloured. 
The antenne are fulvous. The abdomen whitish buff. 
The male antenne are broad, and have forty-six rays on each side 
lying flat ; the four rays of each joint of equal length. The female 
antennee are of considerable breadth, and with forty-eight or fifty 
rays on each side. 
The palpi are very short but distinct and rather slender, and the 
spiral tongue is also distinct and composed of two flattened free fila- 
ments. 
Subsection A. 6. 
Sp. 2. Saturnia Myrurmnta, Westw.  S. alis anticis subfal- 
catis, omnibus purpureo-fuscis albo-irroratis ; et pone medium 
striga alba valde curvata; anticis lunula magna vitrea albo 
flavoque marginata; maculaque parva subapicali nigra albo 
wrrorata ; posticis ocello magno ovali vitreo albo flavoque mar- 
ginato, serieque catenata submarginali punctorum nigrorum. 
Expans. alar. antic. unc. 43-51. 
Hab. Port Natal. In Mus. Britann. 
The fore-wings are considerably emarginate along the outer mar- 
gin in the male, and more slightly soin the female. The veins agree 
m arrangement with the typical Saturnie. The general colour of 
the wings is a dark livid brownish purple, thickly powdered with 
white atoms; the middle of each wing is occupied by a large trans- 
parent spot, kidney-shaped in the fore-wings and oval in the hind 
ones; the vitreous portion is surrounded by a slender line of white, 
which is succeeded by a yellow one, and this by a slender black line; 
these eyes are of nearly equal size. The fore-wings are also marked 
near the base with an oblique white fascia, extending from near the 
base of the fore-wings to the base of the large eye ; beyond the eye 
is a curved white bar, internally edged with a darker bar of livid 
purple; the apical part of the fore-wings is brown shaded to fulvous 
and buff; the outer margin of the wing dusky buff, with a series of 
greenish buff spots edged with a slender brown deeply undulating 
line; near the tip of the wing is a black spot irrorated with white at 
the base, from which runs a very slender and much-angulated white 
line. The hind-wings have a fulvous edge gradually shaded to buff- 
brown, bearing a row of dark brown catenated spots followed by a 
slender dusky line. The under side of the wings resembles the upper 
side, with the costa of the hind-wings white. The body is purplish 
brown, the thorax behind with a white fascia, and the segments of 
the abdomen have the hinder margin white. The antennz, head and 
legs are fulvous. ‘The antennze are broadly pennate, with the rays 
continued to the tip. The males have fifty-eight rays (arranged in 
double pairs to each joint), with single rays at the tip. The females 
have also fifty-eight long rays (four to each joint), with eight or ten 
single rays at the tip. The palpi are porrected, but do not extend 
beyond the hairs of the clypeus. 
