THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZIi\E OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SRRIES.] 



".... perlitora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiun vitreos oonsidite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hlc carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphse Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conehylia succo." 



N.PaHhenii Gianneftasi, Eel. I. 



No. 115. JULY 1907. 



I. — Neiv African Saturniidge. 

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



1. Epiphora pelosoma , sp. n. 



Body clay-colour; upperside of thorax hair- brown; meta- 

 notuni, 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 Anttnorn, but larger. Fore wing with a white, subbasal, 

 angle-shaped band and a narrow white discal band, the latter 

 being nearly straight from costal margin to middle 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 l\Its., German East Africa ; one female in the 

 Tring Museum. 



Ann. & Mag, N, Hist. Scr. 7. Vol. xx. 1 



