304 Zoological Society. 



In addition to the above characters, it may be noticed, that the bar 

 beyond the middle of the wings is slender, grey, outwardly edged with 

 a dusky line, and inwardly with purplish brown ; outside the bar is a 

 series of large, triangular, lilac-white patches united together, and the 

 disc of the wings, especially towards the base, is much more irrorated 

 with lilac-pink. 



Sp. 10. Saturnia Apollonia, Cramer, Ins. vol. iii. pi. 250 A. 

 S. alis pallide fuscis albo flavoque variis ; anticis fascia subapi- 

 cali flava extus fusca ; alis posticis albis strigis duabus fuscis 

 pone medium, exteriore flavo intus marginata ; omnibus ocello 

 nigro in medio subvitreo iride alba; in anticis etiam annulo 

 flavo cincto : corpore albo thorace macula media fusca. 

 Expans. alar, antic, unc. 3f . 



Hab. Caput Bon. Spei et apud Portum Natalensem. 

 The antennae are fulvous and short ; the pectinations forming an 

 elongate ovate outline, pointed at the tip, with only thirty- eight 

 rays on each side, four being emitted from each joint. The rays lie 

 flat, and several of the terminal joints are destitute of rays. The 

 female antennae are 24-jointed, the pectinations forming a much nar- 

 rower oval outline than in the male ; the pectinations of the basal 

 part being short, each joint emitting four rays, of which the apical 

 pair is not above half the length of the basal ones. 



This species is well-figured in Mr. Angas's plate of Lepidoptera of 

 the Zoolu country, fig. 14. 



Subsection B. b. 



Sp. 11. Saturnia Mimosa, Boisduval (Voy. de Delegorgue dans 

 l'Afriq. Austr. p. 600). S. alis glauco-viridibus, anticarum costa 

 grisea linea vel striga undulata griseo-fusca paullo pone me- 

 dium maculaque grisea ad unguium posticum ; omnibus ocello 

 cequali, flavo, iride tenui castanea anticeque lunula tenui grisea 

 notata ; posticis in caudam longissimam spatulatam basi griseo- 

 fuscam, apice flavo-viridi productis. 

 Expans. alar, antic, unc. 5^, long. alar, postic. unc. 4-^. 

 Hab. apud Portum Natalensem. In Mus. Britann. &c. 

 This species belongs to the subgenus Actias of Leach, and is allied 

 to S. Selene of India, S. Luna of North America, S. Isis* of Java, 

 S. Cometes of Madagascar, described by M. Boisduval in his ' Fauna 

 of Madagascar,' (apparently identical with the species captured at 

 Nosse Be, on the east side of Madagascar, by M. Mittre, exhibited 

 by M. Guerin at the Entomological Society of France (see Annales 

 de la Soc. Ent. 1846, p. civ.) ; S. Mcenas of Silhet (figured in my 

 Cabinet of Orient. Entomol. pi. 22), and S. Leto, Doubleday, also 

 from Silhet (figured in the Trans, of the Entomol. Soc. vol. v. pi. 15. 

 A very fine specimen of this last-named insect, with the markings on 

 the wings much more distinct, is contained in the Ashmolean Mu- 

 seum at Oxford) . 



* This very rare species, of which M. Boisduval was acquainted with only a 

 single specimen in the collection of M. Robyns of Brussels, will require a new 

 specific name to distinguish it from the S. Isis of this monograph. 



