14 SATURNIIDjE. 



with a dark pink band ; legs pink. Fore wing very pale green, 

 white at base ; a dark pink costal fascia, darkest along subcostal 

 nervure ; an outwardly-oblique pale yellow antemedial line ; two 

 inwardly-oblique slightly curved submarginal lines ; a pale yellow 

 marginal band ; a dark red-brown lunule at end of cell, with a 

 grey line on it, bounding inwardly a round ochreous spot with 

 pinkish centre. Hind wing similar to the fore wing ; the central 

 portion of the tail pinkish. 



$ . The outer margin less excised and waved ; the yellow mark- 

 ings less developed ; the antemedial line of fore wing nearer the 

 base, and that on hind wing absent ; the tail less pink. 



Larva apple-green; paired dorsal and lateral yellow spinous 

 tubercles on each somite except the last ; dorsal yellow hairs ; 

 lateral and ventral black hairs ; the pad to anal claspers rufous. 



Cocoon pale brown and oval. 



Hub. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp., 3 

 132-166, $ 140-182 millim. 



2. Actias maenas, Doubt. A. M. N. H. xix, 1847, p. 95, pi. 7, fig. 1 ; 



6'. ^ & no. ir>:;:;. 



Saturnia leto, Doubl. Proc. Ent. Soc. 1847, p. li, pi. 15 ; C. Sf S. 

 no. 1532. 



(S . Differs from selene in being pale yellow ; the collar pink ; 

 the thorax and abdomen blotched with pink above. Pore wing 

 pink at base ; a broad pinkish antemedial band with waved edges 

 enclosing a yellow spot below the subcostal nervure ; the lunule 

 and ochreous mark in the form of a crescent from the costal band 

 to the lower angle of cell, the lunule being reversed and pointing 

 inwards ; two waved pinkish postmedial diffused lines, the outer 

 line double, with a costal streak from it to the apex ; the lower 

 half of the outer area pinkish ; no marginal pink line. Hind wing 

 with the antemedial band narrower than on fore wing ; a waved 

 postmedial line ; the tail longer, broader, and all pink except the 

 spatulate end. 



$ . Without the pink blotches on thorax and abdomen ; win^s 

 without the broad pink markings ; fore wing with a nearly erect 

 antemedial line ; a waved postmedial line which may be obsole- 

 scent ; both wings with a marginal pink line ; tail broad and only 

 pink at middle. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Bhutan; Khasi Hills; Sibsagar ; Burma. Exp., 

 3 158, $ 172 millim. 



3. Actias ignescens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 602; C. $ S. no. 1531. 



c? . Differs from mcenas in the basal pink patch of the fore wing 

 joining the postmedial band, the pink covering the whole of the 

 fore wing except a patch near the base, one before the lunule, one 

 on the costa above it, one below the apex, and a spot between 

 veins 2 and 3. Hind wing with the pinkish subbasal band broader 



