ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



SATURNIA. Schrank. 

 Family BOMBYCIDM. Stephens. 

 Head small, scarcely visible from above : antenna 

 short of the male, strongly bipectinated, the pecti- 

 nations divergent and diminishing in length to the 

 end of the antennae, each joint of which bears two 

 ramifications fringed externally and internally; fe- 

 male with each joint bidentate, and each tooth ter- 

 minated by two setae or short spines : thorav short, 

 broad, and densely covered with long fine down or 

 soft hair : abdomen short in the males ; in the females 

 broad, stout and slightly tufted at the apex : wings 

 broad, horizontally expanded during repose, fringe 

 very short : larvas naked, with a coloured ring on 

 each segment, with several pencils of hair placed 

 upon distinct tubercles : pupa enclosed in a strong, 

 hard, and coarse pear-shaped coccoon. 

 Sp.l. Sat. Pavonia minor. Leach. Emperor Moth. 

 Antennae yellowish brown : the male with the 

 thorax and abdomen tawny, the former with a broad 

 white band on the anterior part : upper wings co- 

 vered with variegated scales and whitish streaks ; 

 the first oblique, abbreviated, purplish and edged 

 with black ; the second, beyond the middle, undu- 

 lating; the third, or outer, on the hinder margin, 

 whitish ; the extremity dusky ; between the two an- 

 terior streaks is an elongate whitish patch, in which 

 is a nictitating ocellus, or half-closed eyelet, and a 

 black pupil with a whitish iris, apex of the wings 

 with one or two black, white, and reddish spots : 

 posterior wings reddish tawny, with a half-closed 

 ocellus as in the upper, a greyish band and the 

 hinder margin purplish : females largest and paler. 

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