ATTACUS. — PHEIXOLEPIA. ] 1 



SATURNIID^. 



ATTACUS, Linn. 



Attacus pryeri. (Plate XLIII. fig. 5.) 

 Attacus pryeri, Butler, Proc. Zovl. Soc. 1878, p. 387. n. 18. 



Allied to A. walkeri of Felder from N. Chilian but darker than any of the speeies of 

 the A. Cynthia group ; olive-brown, with paler borders and the usual submarginal lines ; the 

 pale belt (bounding the dark angulated central line externally) white inwardly, pinky 

 whitish and diffused outwardly, with no defined intersecting stripe as in all the allied species ; 

 the maggot-like markings, basal white belts, and the apical markings of primaries as in 

 A. walkeri. Expanse of wings J 5 inches 10 lines, $ 6 inches 2 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas) . 



LIMACODID^. 



DATANOIDES, Butler. 



Datanoides fasciata. (Plate XLIII. fig. 4.) 

 Datanoides fasciata, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. xiv. p. 207 (1878). 



Primaries above pale sericeous rosy bro^\Ti, with a broad central belt, widest upon costal 

 margin, limited by white lines, which are followed toward the base and on the disk by 

 bronze-brown belts ; outer margin wavy, with a white marginal line ; fringe brown, inter- 

 sected by a black line ; two black dots, enclosed by an 8-shaped white marking, at the end of 

 the cell : secondaries greyish, with pale rosy-brown outer border ; fringe whitish, black- 

 spotted towards apex: body pale rosy brown; anus ferruginous, head and collar greyish. 

 Under surface pale ferruginous, crossed by a dusky discal line ; secondaiies witli the intcrno- 

 median area greyish. Expanse of wings I inch 5 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



PHRIXOLEPIA, Butler. 



Phrixolepia sericea. (Plate XLIII. fig. 6.) 



Phrixolepia sericea, Butler, Ami. 4' Mwj. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, \ol. xx. p. 470 (1877). 



Primaries shining ferruginous or cupreous-brown, crossed obliquely by an angulated 

 white line, which, towards the inner margin, is bounded internally by a shade of deeper 

 colour and externally by grey ; costal margin yellow, fringe white : secondaries shining 



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