l44 PROF. J. O. WESTWOOD ON NEW EXOTIC MOTHS. [Jan. 4, 



(/ere angulum apicalem anticarum attmgente), margine alarum 

 pone hancfasciam magisfusco-vinoso; antennis rufescentibus, bre- 

 viter pectinatis ; collo albo ; corpore alts concolori. 



Affinis S. mylittse. 



Expaiis. alarum anticarum unc. 6|^. 



Hab. in Japonia. In Mus. Ilopeiano Oxonise. 



Saturn lA iole, sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) 



S. alts anticis subfalcatis, apice rotundato, posticis elongatis an- 



gustis, omnibus basi cinereo-fusca ; anticis fascia lata alba fere 



mediana, lunula media angusta curvata alba, medio vitreo, 



spatio pone fasciam magis rufescente, ocello ovali prope apicem 



alcE parvo nigra, albo anguste cincto, strigaque tenui ab ejus 



apice fere ad angulum posticum cxtensa cum margine ipso paral- 



lela ; alis posticis inter basin et tnedium lunula alba, postice in 



fasciam latum pallidam dilatata, ad angulum analem extensa, 



ocelloque lunato albo, linea media vitrea, margineque postico 



luteo, in margine supero fascia insidente; alis posticis pone 



fasciam pallide fuscis, strigapallidiore margini parallela : corpus 



fuseum, collari albo, abdoynine albido, segmentis in media basi 



fuscis ; antennis subfulvis, satis late bipectinatis. 



Expans, alarum unc. 4|-. 



Hub. in Assama Indiae orientalis. In Musaeo Hopeiano Oxonise. 



Saturnia(Eud^monia) ARGiPHONTES. (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) 

 Eudcemonia argiphontes, Maassen in litt., Kirbv, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 18/7, p. 20. 



Affinis Bombyci brachyurse, Brury (argus, Stall), at major alisque 

 posticis in mare multo longioribus. Faunicolor, alis anticis fascia 

 fusca valde obliqua prope basin, fere ad medium costee extensa, 

 alteraque fere recta inter medium et apicem per alas posticus ad 

 marginem analem extensa, spatio pone banc fasciamrin anticis 

 albo, cervino extus pallide tincto ; spatio inter medium alee et 

 fasciam guttis 5 vel 6 flavis fusco cinctis, medio cujusque minute 

 vitreo ; cauda alarum posticarum inter medium et partem dila- 

 tatam albida ; alis anticis femince medio magis fulvescentibus, 

 fasciis duabus purpurea -fuscis, externa extus anguste albo 

 marginata, colore albo ad costam parum dilatato ; alis posticis in 

 fosmimi cauda tantum dimidium ejus in mare cequante, et parte 

 media ejusdem magis fusca instructis. 

 Expans. alarum unc. 3-3^. 

 Long. cuud. alar. post. S unc. 5|, $ unc. 2f . 

 Hab. yiena Leone xlfrices tropicalis. In Mus. leg. Dubliuensi. 

 The preceding description of both sexes and accompanying figure 

 of the male of this extraordinary species were made from the pair of 

 typical specimens in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, kindly 

 submitted to me by Mr. W. F. Kirby in 1877, since which period that 

 gentleman has published the following description of the species in 

 the ' Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ' :— 



"Allied to brachgura, Drury (Argus, Stoll). Brown, $ paler. 

 "Wings shaped as mbraychura, and slightly scalloped as in that species ; 



