Mr. W. F. Kirby on new Species q/* Saturniidas. 173 



Manipur, Chittagong, and Pegu. It is no doubt also found 

 in Arrakan. 



The female of this species may be readily distinguished 

 from the female of C. coturnix^ which it otherwise closely 

 resembles, by the absence of all buff or rufous bars and 

 mottling on the outer webs of the primaries. 



Coturmx Delegorgnei. 



Colurnix Delegorguei, Deleg. Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 615 (1847) ; Jack- 

 son, Ibis, 1889, p. 5S'i. 



Coturnix histrionica, Kartl. Rev. et Mag. Zool. i. p. 495 (184"9). 



Coturnix fornasiyii, Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mos. fasc. xvi. p. 399, pi. i. fig. 2 

 (1850) ; id. Mem. Ace. Sci. Bologn. (2) iv. p. 521, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1865), 



Cuturnix cruciyera, Heugl. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 51. no. 533 (1850), 



Range. Africa, south of about 15° N. laf. 



This species resembles G. coromandelica in having the 

 outer webs of the primaries in both sexes uniform brown, not 

 barred or marked with buff. 



Coturnix ijectoralis. 



Coturnix pectoralis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 8 ; id. Syn. B. Austr., text 

 and pi., tig. 1 (1837-38) ; id. B. Austr. v. pi. Ixxxviii. (1848) ; 

 Diggles, B. Austr. ii. pt. xv. pi. xcv. (1807). 



Synoicus australis, Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 80. 



Range. Australia, Tasmania. 



Coturnix noviv-zealandicie. 



Cotnrnix novfe-zealandice , Quoy & Gaim. Voy. AstroL, Zool. i. p. 242, 

 pi. xxiv. fig. 1 (1830) ; Gould, Syn. B. Austr., text and pi., fig. 2 

 (1837-38) ; Bull. B. New Zeal. p. 101, pi. (1873) ; Sharpe, in Voy. 

 Ereb. & Terr., Birds, App. pp. 10, 27, pi. viii. (1875) ; BuU. Man. B. 

 N. Zeal. p. 43, pi. xix. (1882) ; id. B. N. Zeal. i. p. 225, pi. xxiii. 

 (1888). 



Range. New Zealand [said to be extinct.] 



XVII. — Descriptions of Three new Species of Saturniidaj in 

 the Collection of the British Museum. By W. F. Kirby, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., Assistant in Zoological Department, 

 British Museum (Natural History). 



[Plate XI.] 



Buncea Mitfordi, (PI. XI. tig. 1.) 

 Exp. al. 112 millim. 

 ^ . Dark blackish brown, collar narrowly red, and under sur- 



