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dopteia Heterocera in the British Museum; and, secondly, with the 

 Eudoxyla Eucalypti and Eudoxyla Urvillii of Boisduval, and Her- 

 rich-Schaeffer, combined by Mr. Walker, loc. cit., under the name 

 o( Zeuzera Eucalypti. From both of these, however, it appears 

 to me abundantly distinct. I am much indebted to Mr. Walker, 

 who has so lately described the Bombyces in the Cabinet of the 

 British Museum, for the kindness and care with which he has 

 examined tlie six species of Bombycidce here described as new : I 

 should also add that I have adopted Mr, Walker's genera as 

 recently described, and that Mr. Walker has obligingly decided 

 the species named below severally to belong to the genera under 

 which 1 have placed them. 



Genus Teara, Walker. 

 Sp. 1. Teara denticulata, Newman. 



Foem. — Alis anticis fuscis, fascid basalt undosd, maculis discalibus 

 duabus subrotundis, fasciis obliquis tribiis, denticulatis, albidis ; 

 alis posticis albidis, fasciis Iribus plus minusve denticulatis, 

 ciliisque fuscis ; subtus, alis anticis fuliginoso-fuscis, maculis 

 discalibus duabus subrotundis, fasciisque duabus, und sesquialterd 

 pallidiori, obliquis, denticulatis albidis; posticis fuliginoso-fuscis, 

 maculis discalibus duabus rotundis albis, fasciisque tribus (ex- 

 teriori notabili) denticulatis albidis. (Alarum dilat. 2 unc.) 

 Female. — Head with palpi brown ; eyes black ; antennae pale 

 brown, with a white ring near the base ; pronotum whitish ; meso- 

 notum covered with long loose brown hairs ; abdomen brown, with 

 scattered whitish scales; above, fore wings dark brown, adorned 

 with the whitish markings described below; first, a short zigzag 

 fascia at the base, next two nearly round spots, the smaller nearer 

 the base, and both on a median line between the base and apex 

 of wing, the larger and outer about midway, then an oblique indis- 

 tinct fascia just exterior to the larger spot, and followed by a very 

 distinct oblique fascia with its inner margin regularly scalloped, 

 its outer margin nearly straight, and lastly, an equally distinct 

 oblique fascia with both margins regularly scalloped ; under wings 

 greyish white, with three undulating fasciae and the cilia brown ; 

 the first of the fasciae is narrow and zigzag, the second is narrow 

 and scalloped, the third is broad, its inner margin plain, its outer 

 margin regularly scalloped : beneath, the same markings obtain 

 as in the upper side, but more dilute and confused, and the hind 

 wings have also two round white spots on the disk of the wing, 



