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minus distincta at magis obliqua, et ad costam vahle angidata, 

 macula media irregulari albida ; posticis nigricanti-fuscis basi 

 puniceis macula magna media pallide fiava. 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. A\. 



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 strigae 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 in- 

 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 antennae 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 SaturnicB. 



Sp. 27. Saturn lA Herilla, Westw. /S. alis apice undulatis, 



anticis angulatis brunneo-fulvis valde irroratis, medio falvescenti 



fascia obliqua fusca abbreviata ; posticis macula magna suU 



phurea^ limbo lato fuscOy fulvo irrorato. 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. 4f . 



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 square 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 obhque 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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