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ginem anticum et posticum non attingenti ; 2da. ovali ad apicem 
cellulas ; 3tia. duplo majori oblongo-ovali et obliqua inter cellulam et 
apicem alee; 4ta. fere rotundata pone 2am; 5ta. parva angulo postico 
proxima ; costa basi albo-guttata, margine postico immaculato ; alis 
posticisrufis, limbo nigro. Expans. alar, antic, unc. 2|. 
Habitat in Africa merid. (D. Buxton). In Mus. Hopeiano. 
EUSEMIA NUGATRIX, Westw. 
Alis anticis nigris, costa ad basim biguttata, maculis 6 luteo-albidis, 
— ima. subtrigona ante medium cellulee ; 2da. subquadrata parum obli- 
cjua ante apicem cellulce ; 3tia. magna subovali obliqua inter medium 
et apicem alae, intus vena 3tia mediana in dentem nigrum incisa ; 4ta. 
oblonga marginis postici, medium marginis fere attingente ; 5ta. pone 
2am ; 6ta. fere ad angulum posticum alae ; interstitiis argenteo parum 
squamosis ; alis posticis rufo-aurantiacis, limbo simplici nigro. Ex- 
pans, alar, antic, unc. 2|-3|-. 
Habitat apud promontorium, " Cape Palmas," Afr. occid. (Savage). 
In Mus. Hopeiano. 
EUSEMIA GLOSSATRIX, WeStW. 
Alis supra nigris, purpureo-nitidis, prsesertim in alis posticis ; anticis 
fascia media parum curvata tripartita straminea, alteraque inter 
medium et apicem alae e punctis 4 albis formata, interstitiis squamis 
argenteis perpaucis ornatis ; alis posticis margine postico albo, intus 
dentato ; abdomine supra nigro, subtus fulvo ; coUare et pedibus sub- 
tus fulvis. Expans. alar, antic, unc. 7,\. 
Habitat in Afric. orient-merid. In Mus. Hopeiano. 
Family Saturniid^. 
This splendid family is well represented in Africa, particularly 
in the south-eastern portion, where a number of beautiful species 
have been found, especially in Natal. A monograph of these insects, 
so far as then known, was published by myself in the " Proceedings of 
the Zoological Society," in 1S49 (with four coloured plates containing 
thirty-three species), of which half were previously undescribed. Of 
these, perhaps the most striking is the long- tailed species Actias 
1/iimosce, with pale green wings, which lives upon the Mimosa, on 
the banks of the river Tugela, the boundary of the kingdom of 
Amazulu, between Delagoa Bay and Natal, the cocoons of which 
are used by the natives for tobacco boxes. Another fine species 
is Sahirnia Alciiioe, Cramer, pi. 322, fig. A, (^^..S'. Caffraria, Stoll, 
pi. 31, f. 2, S. caffra, Boisduval in Delegorgue's Voy. Afr. Austr. 
ii. p. 601). A specimen of this species, measuring seven inches 
in the expansion of the fore wings, was taken by Mr. Gates, but the 
precise locality was not recorded. Another species, which appears to 
be undescribed, was also taken by Mr. Gates, which may be thus 
characterized : — 
