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1. Saturnia pyretorum, Boisduval. 



Saturnia pyretorum, Boisduval, Westwood, Cabinet Orient. Ent. 

 p.49.'pl.24.f.2(1847); Walker, List Lep. Het. B.M. pt. 5. p. 1273; 

 Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. Ind. House, ii. p. 404. 



Hab. China. In Collection, India House ; British Museum. 



Milky-white ; costal and frontal band white, each wing with a 

 moderate-sized oval black ocellus, having a slender fulvous line sur- 

 mounted by pale blue lunule, and with a curved vitreous central 

 streak ; beyond the middle of the wings are two strongly dentated 

 slender dark lines, resting on a broad brownish sub marginal band ; 

 a brown band also on the exterior margin, base of fore-wings, and a 

 sub-basal band on both fore- and hind- wings, dark brown. Head, 

 hind part of thorax, and large anal tuft dark brown. 



Expanse 3 to 3f inches. 



2. Saturnia grotet, Moore. (Annulosa, PI. LXV. fig. 2.) 

 Saturnia grotei, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. Ind. House, ii. p. 404. 



Fore-wing pale buff-colour, brownish along the costa and about 

 the apex, and thickly irrorated with black and brown scales to 

 beyond the middle ; a large black-margined, maroon-coloured ocel- 

 lus, containing a narrow transverse white lunule ; a submarginal 

 black band, bounded inwardly with a double zigzag pale margined 

 black line, which extends to near the apex, where the space contains 

 a maroon-coloured patch and a black spot, both of which are irro- 

 rated with white scales ; exterior margin dull buff, with a row of 

 narrow oval maroon-brown spots. Hind- wing brownish at the base 

 and along the abdominal margin ; the disc pink, containing a similar, 

 but smaller ocellus, as the fore-wing ; a submarginal black band, 

 bounded inwardly by two undulated black lines, the inner line ex- 

 tending round the ocellus ; exterior margin dull buff, with a row of 

 narrow oval maroon-brown spots. Thorax crossed by a pale buff 

 line. 



Expanse nearly 3 inches. 



Hab. Darjeeling. In Museum, India House, London. 



Genus Attacus, Linneeus. 



Phal(xna-attacus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. pt. 2. p. 808 (1767). 

 Attacus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155 (1816). 

 Hyolophora, pt., Duncan, Nat. Libr. vii. 



1. Attacus atlas (Linnseus). 



Phalcsna-attacus atlas, Linnaeus, S. N. i. pt. 2. p. 808 (1767) ; 

 Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 366 ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pp. 180, 183, pi. 

 381. f. C, pi. 382. f. A. 



Bombyx atlas, Fabricius, Syst Ent. p. 566 ; Spec. Ins. ii. p. 167 ; 

 Mant. Ins. ii. p. 108 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 1. p. 407; Ohvier, Enc. Me'th. 

 Ins.v. p. 24.pl. 69.f. 1. 



Attacus atlas, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156 ; "Walker, List 



