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at the tip, and angulated beyond the middle of the costa, fulvous 

 brown, palest along the fore-margin, with a rather broad, very oblique 

 fascia a little beyond the middle of the wing, of a rich chestnut colour, 

 shaded to purplish towards the costa ; nearly straight along the fore- 

 edge, but much-arched on the outer margin, both edges being marked 

 with a pale, slender, buff line : beyond the middle of the fore-wing is 

 a large, irregular, somewhat trilobed vitreous spot, outwardly edged 

 with a dark line, and succeeded by a pale buff one. The apical por- 

 tion of the wing beyond the fascia is fulvous buff, shaded to brown in 

 the middle, and to purple. There is also a small dark dot in the 

 middle of the costa. 



The hind-wings are fulvous, the middle with a darker oblique fascia 

 tinged with purple, with a pale line on each side ; the outer margin 

 curved, and in the middle of this fascia is a small lunate vitreous spot. 



The female has the fore-wings slightly waved along the outer mar- 

 gin : the general colour of the wings is darker and more ashy than in 

 the male, the fulvous colour replaced by ashy brown. 



The head and a large patch on the thorax are dark fulvous brown 

 in the male, chestnut in the female. 



The antennae of the males are scarcely pectinated beyond the 

 middle ; there are twenty-two rays on each side. The apical half 

 simple, with only numerous short set« at the extremity of the joints. 

 The antenna; of the female are quite simple and setaceous. The veins 

 of the wings are arranged as in the last species, the ocellus of the 

 fore-wing resting on the outside of the transverse veuilet closing the 

 discoidal cell, and being divided into two parts by the outer branch 

 of the postcostal vein*. 



Sp. 32. Saturnia (Urota) Sinope, Westw. (PI. X. fig. 2.) 

 S. alls anticis integris, iwsticis breviter caudatis; anticis fulvo- 

 brunneis fasciis duabus albis singula strigamfuscam indudente, 

 punctoque parvo ovali media alba, posticis livide piiniceis puncto 

 medio albofasciaque pone medium alba. 

 Expans. alar, antic, unc. 3. 



Hab. apud Portum Natalensem. In Mus. Britann. 

 The wings of the male are entire and nearly straight ; along the 

 apical margin they are buff-brown or pale reddish brown, with a 

 transverse white bar before and another beyond the middle, each edged 

 on each side with a thin black hue, and bearing a black streak along 

 its middle. In the middle of the wing is a small oval white spot 

 edged with black. Hind-vnngs li\-id pink, with a white spot in the 

 middle, followed by a white fascia : apical portion of the wing fulvous 

 brown, produced into a short, broad, somewhat triangular tail, obtuse 

 at the tip. 



Beneath similarly marked, but with all the colouring dull. Body, 

 legs and antemise fulvous brown. 



The antennae are rather short, and consist of forty-eight joints, each 



* Mr. Angas has represented this species in his plate of Amazoolu Lepidoptera, 

 figure 12. 



