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ferruginous, no yellow spots. Hind wing with the disk much 

 suffused with crimson ; the inner part of the ocellus crimson; two 

 postoiedial waved lines. 



Hob. Himalayas, from Simla to Sikhim ; Tibet. Exp., d 80, 

 2 88 millim. 



19. Saturnia lindia, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd ser. ii, p. 424, pi. 22, 



fig. 3; C.&S. no. 1549. 



Saturnia hockingii, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 402 ; Butl III. Het. 

 vii, pi. 124, figs. 2, 3 ; C. $f 8. no. 1546 A. 



cJ . Differs from anna in the collar and ground-colour being 

 grey. Fore wing : the ocellus with no crimson ; the postmedial 

 lines waved, not highly dentate, no yellow spots. Hind wing: 

 the ocellus with crimson only on inner side; two waved post- 

 medial lines. 



Hab. Kulu. Exp. 86 millim. 



20. Saturnia pyretorum, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 49, pi. 24, fig. 2 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1550. 



Saturnia cidosa, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, p. 423 ; C. fy S. 

 no. 1546. 



c? . Differs from lindia in the base of the fore wing being mostly 

 dark ; the medial area whitish ; the postmedial area heavily suf- 

 fused with fuscous so as almost entirely to obliterate the dentate 

 lines ; a white submarginal line ; outer margin fuscous ; ocellus 

 dark, with a white streak and ringed with yellow and black ; two 

 deep red subapical patches. Hind wing similar; the whitish 

 medial area very broad ; the waved lines entirely obsolete ; an 

 obsolescent red subapical patch. 



$ . "With a large tuft of hair at end of abdomen. 



S. boisduvali, Ersch., from Irkutsk, appears only to differ in 

 having a straighter postmedial line to fore wing. 



Hab. China ; Sikhim. Exp. 103 millim. 



21. Saturnia Simla, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 41, pi. 20, fig. 1 j C. $ S. 



no. 1571. 



Head and thorax pale chestnut ; collar grey ; metathorax fringed 

 with grey ; abdomen with the first segment chestnut, the others 

 greyish brown. Fore wing : costa grey ; basal area chestnut, with 

 a dark red line on its outer edge, angled at median nervure, but 

 sometimes almost straight ; an oblique chestnut line from the costa 

 before apex nearly meeting the red line on inner margin, the space 

 between the two lines pinkish grey ; the area outside the oblique 

 line chestnut ; margin brown ; an ocellus consisting of a hyaline 

 streak on a dark brown ground surrounded by pale brown, edged 

 inwardly by black, white, and red, outwardly by black ; a black 

 mark before the apex, which is pinkish grey ; two dentate obso- 

 lescent postmedial lines. Hind wing brownish ; the upper discal 



