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the base, near which is an oblique, very pale brown striga ; followed 

 by a very large eye with an oval glassy centre, surrounded by a 

 broad dirty luteous brown ring, and this by a narrow black circle : 

 this is succeeded by a broad red ring, and this by a white one, the 

 adjoining space being rosy buff: between the eye and the apical mar- 

 gin is a subundulated blackish striga, edged internally with white. 

 The fore-wings beneath want the anterior, angulated, brown striga ; 

 the ocellus is coloured as on the upper side, and the hind-wings are 

 fulvous yellow, with the ocellus smaller than above, the black ring 

 being surrounded by a white one, and this by a narrow rosy one ; the 

 white waved subapical striga is also narrowly bordered within with 

 rosy. 



Antennae of the male chestnut-yellow, rather broad and flat, with 

 forty-eight rays on each side, the two apical rays being very short, 

 four rays being produced from each joint. 



Body entirely orange-yellow, the outside of the tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish. 



Sp. 6. Saturnia Menippe, Westw. S. alisintegris testaceo-rufis 

 apicibus fuscis, striga curvata ante alteraque pone medium an- 

 gustis albis, communibus, alis omnibus ocello nigro (medio sub- 

 vitreo) iride alba. 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. 5-J. 



Hab. Port Natal et Africa Austral. In Mus. Brit, et Hope. 



Fore-wings of the male entire and slightly rounded along the 

 outer margin. Wings rich testaceous red ; fore-wings with the costa 

 pale buff-brown, base carmine-red, having a white slightly curved 

 fascia running across all the wings, each of which is also marked in 

 the middle with an equal-sized oval eye ; the centre vitreous, but 

 clothed with black scales, surrounded by a broad black ring, and this 

 by a rather broad white one ; this eye is followed by a uniform white 

 bar, nearly parallel with the outer margin, which is rather dull buff, 

 finely irrorated with brown scales ; fringe dull buff. Wings beneath 

 greenish buff, the anterior with the eye nearly similar to that of the 

 upper side, followed by a white streak edged outwardly with black, 

 and with a grey triangular patch near the tip of the wing, the outer 

 margin somewhat paler, the middle dotted with brown. Hind-wings 

 buff-white, irregularly clouded with dirty buff ; across the middle is 

 a nearly straight brown fascia, the apical half of the wing darker buff- 

 brown, with two large lilac-grey spots, one near the anal angle, and 

 the other towards the outer angle. 



Antennae dark brown ; those of the male rather broad, with fifty-two 

 joints in each, and about 100 rays on each side, extending consequently 

 nearly to the extreme tip. Female antennae nearly resembling those 

 of the male. 



Thorax dark carmine-red, brown in front, with a narrow white 

 collar. Abdomen and under side of the body pale whitish buff. 

 Head and legs pale buff-brown. 



Sp. 7. Saturnia Tyrrhea, Cramer. S. alis griseis nigro irro- 

 ratis ; anticis striga ante medium alba valde dent at a ; omnibus 



