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joint). One-third of the apical part of each antenna is destitute of 

 rays. 



The antennse of the female are slightly pectinated for two-thirds of 

 the hase, the two apical rays of each joint being almost obsolete. The 

 tips are serrated. 



The palpi are deflexed, and the tips appear just beyond the hairs 

 of the lower part of the face. 



Var. Smaller, with the fore-wings and body destitute of the red 

 colour, and the hind-wings fulvous with the outer margin purplish- 

 grey, with the eye as in the others. 



Sp. 18. SaturniaForda, Westw. S . pallide griseo-fusca ^,pal- 

 lide cervino-lutea $ , striga subobsoleta pone medium, posticis 

 etiam ocello parvo submtreo, fusco, medio ; alis posticis maris 

 angulato-subcaiidatis ; foemincB rotundatis. 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. 4|-4|. 



Hub. in Natalia. Mus. Brit. 



Male with the fore-wings very slightly emarginate along the outer 

 margin ; hind-wings produced into a strong angle in the middle of 

 the hind-margin ; all on the upper side of a silky, pale brovraish-grey, 

 uniform colour, traversed by a slightly distinct, slender, brovra striga 

 beyond the middle. The hind-ones marked moreover in the middle with 

 a small, round, dusky spot, having an indistinct vitreous lunula in the 

 middle, and surrounded by an indistinct whitish circle. The antennse 

 are dark brown ; those of the male are moderately bipectinated, each 

 having about thirty-six rays on each side, a few of the apical joints 

 being destitute of rays, and some of the preceding haraig the second 

 ray gradually becoming obsolete. The female antennae are only 

 slightly serrated, the second spur on each side of each joint being 

 obliterated. The veins are those of the typical Saturnice. 



The female has the body and wings of a pale reddish buff, with the 

 dusky striga beyond the middle almost obliterated, and the dusky 

 spot in the middle semicircular. On the underside the hind- wings 

 have also a small oval dark spot towards the base. 



Sp. 19. Saturnia Angasana, Westw. S. alis anticis apice acutis 

 isahellinis, fascia pallide grisea ante medium, strigaque tenui 

 oblique fusca pone medium maculaque parva semi-ovali vitrea 

 mediana ; posticis ocello magno nigro, pupilla minuta vitrea, 

 annulis concentricis testaceo, puniceo-albo, et sanguineo cincta. 

 Expans. alar, antic, unc. 5|. 



Hab. apud Portum Natalensem. In Mus. Britann. 

 Isabelle-coloured or pale rufous brovra, with an irregular pale 

 greyish bar before the middle, followed by an oblique darker fascia, 

 on the outside of which is a small semi-oval talc-like spot ; beyond this, 

 extending from near the tip of the wings towards the middle of the 

 inner margin, is a nearly straight, slender, darker line, edged with 

 greyish on each side ; the apical margin of the wing beyond the dark 

 line becoming grey, shaded oif to the ground colour of the wing. The 

 hind-wings have a large ocellus, black in the centre, with a minute 

 vitreous dot in the middle, with a red lead-coloured ring outside the 



