THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY 



[SEVENTtl SKRIES.] 



" per litora spargite maacam. 



Naiades, et cirolun vitreos considite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros h\c carpite flores : 

 FloribuB et pictum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At T08, o Nrmphee Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurvato variata corallia truneo 

 Vellite muscoais e nipibus, et raihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dex pelagi, et pingui eonchylia succo." 



If. Parthenii Giannel/iui, Ec 



No. 115. JULY 1907. 



I. — Neio Africati Saturniidfe. 

 By the Hon. L. W. Rothschild, Ph.D. 



1. Epiphora pelosoma, sp. n. 



Body clay-colour ; iipperside of tliorax hair-brown ; meta- 

 notum, upperside of last abdominal ring, two thin ventral 

 lateral lines, and a spot on the breast white. 



Upperside of wings dark hair-brown, slightly pinkish out- 

 side the discal band, yellow at the outer margin ; eye-spots 

 as in Antinorii, but larger. Fore wing with a white, subbasal, 

 angle-shaj)ed band and a narrow white discal band, the latter 

 being nearly straight from costal margin to miildle and then 

 slightly incurved ; apex of wing red. On hind wing a white 

 subbasal and a white discal band, joining each other in front. 



Underside washed with clay-colour, the disk of both wings 

 densely dusted with white outside the discal band; the latter 

 on hind wing continued along costal margin to base. 



Length of fore wing 70 mm. 



Uluguru ^Its., German East Africa; one female in the 

 Tring ]\Iuseuin. 



Ann. ct- Mag. N. Hist. Sor. 7. Vol. xx. 1 



