On new Species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Ileterocera. 61 



Samus complicates, n. sp. 

 (PI. V. fig. 27.) 



I would propose this name for the spicule of a sponge of 

 another species of Samus, of which there are several speci- 

 mens in my mountings of the dust from the root-bunch of 

 Euplectella cucumer found in the deep sea about the Seychelle 

 Islands, on account of its extremely complicated form, pre- 

 senting under the microscope one of the most beautiful objects 

 of the kind that I have ever seen. It consists of four arms, 

 three of which form a kind of tripod to the fourth, which is 

 erect, and all thrice divided again to their extremities (there 

 is no shaft) ; so that it defies all attempts at delineation, from 

 the complicated state of the branches and the impossibility, 

 from the dimensions of the object, of getting the whole 

 into focus at the same time ; hence the illustration (PI. V. 

 fig. 27) must be regarded as a diagram. There is no doubt 

 of its belonging to a Samus, of which there are probably many 

 more species yet to be discovered ; indeed the representations 

 given by Dr. Bowerbank, which appear to be similarly qua- 

 driradiate (B. S. vol. i. pi. x. figs. 235, 236), also seem to be 

 those of spicules belonging to species of the same genus. 



Here I would add that, however much Samus and Pachas- 

 trella may be allied to each other in spiculation, their habitats 

 may be totally different ; and when we come to add Cliona to 

 the Eccoelonida, we get a heterogeneous mixture of sponges in 

 kind, whatever may be their alliances otherwise ; for Cliona 

 celata itself, which infests the oyster-shell, may become, when it 

 has destroyed the latter, the free massive Suberite to which 

 Dr. Bowerbank has given the name of Rhaphyrus Griffithsii. 



[To be continued.] 



IX. — Descriptions of new Species of Asiatic Lepidoptera 

 Ileterocera. By Aethue Gr. Butlee, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



Tribe Bombycites. 

 Saturniidse. 



1. Anthercea loepoides, sp. n. 



Primaries above with the basal third dull lake-red, traversed 

 by two irregular saffron-yellow stripes, and with very irregular 

 external edge; central area occupied by a very irregular 

 gamboge-yellow band enclosing the ocellus, which is dull 



