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minus distincta at magis obliqua, et ad costam valde angulata, 
macula media irregulari albida ; posticis nigricanii-fuscis bast 
puniceis macula magna media pallide flava. 
Expans. alar. antic. unc. 44. 
Hab. apud Caput Palmarum (D. Savage). In mus. nostro. 
This curious species has the fore-wings broad, with the fore-margin 
rather suddenly angulated beyond the middle, and with the apical 
margin rounded, the extreme tip forming a small, rounded, slightly 
detached lobe. The general colour of the wing is a dark leaden- 
coloured blackish-brown, slightly irrorated with fulvous scales, espe- 
cially towards the tip of the wing, which is rather paler and more 
varied than the rest. At about one-third from the base runs an ob- 
lique, black, irregular striga, which is followed by another more 
slender and indistinct, and more slanting, being suddenly strongly 
angulated near the costa, where it terminates in a strong black dash. 
Between the strigze is an ill-defined fulvous-buff patch in the middle 
of the wing. The hind-wings are blackish brown, with the base pink, 
and with a large, very pale yellow patch in the middle. The body is 
blackish brown and slightly irrorated. The abdomen is much swollen 
in the only specimen I have seen. Beneath, the wings are very much 
freckled with grey, black, buff and white, especially beyond the 
middle ; the fore-wings have a large patch of rose-pink along the m- 
side at the base, followed at some distance by a rather broad, very 
pale yellow bar; the hind-wings want the pink colour, but have the 
pale yellow patch as on the upper side. 
The antenne of the female consist of twenty-two joints, emitting 
only a pair of rays from the base of each, the apical pair being indi- 
cated by a very slight serration, followed by about twelve joints at the 
tip which are destitute of rays. The palpi are porrected into a 
short distinct muzzle. 
From these characters it will probably be necessary to form this 
species into a separate subgenus, when the male shall be known. The 
veins of the wings are arranged as in the typical Saturnia. 
Sp. 27. Sarurnra Heritia, Westw. S. alis apice undulatis, 
anticis angulatis brunneo-fulvis valde irroratis, medio fulvescentt 
fascia obliqua fusca abbreviata; posticis macula magna sul- 
phurea, limbo lato fusco, fulvo irrorato. 
Expans. alar. antic. unc. 43. 
Hab. Sierra Leone (D. Morgan). In Mus. Brit. 
Wings fulvous-brown, much varied with darker and lighter shades, 
and with numerous small dark dots and streaks ; the base with a grey 
shade much-mottled with small dark brown patches; before the 
middle of the wing is an ill-defined, pale, nearly syuare patch, resting 
on the median vein, but extending narrowly along the costal margin, 
which is much marked with dark dots; the middle of the wing is 
more uniformly fulvous brown, with a dark, very oblique dash arising 
from the costa, which is considerably curved beyond the middle: a 
dark brown oval patch also rests on the middle of the last branch of 
the median vein; the apical margin of the wing is scalloped and dark 
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