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minus distincta at magis obliqua, et ad cost am valde angulata, 

 macula media irregulari albida ; posticis nigricanti-fuscis basi 

 piiiticeis macula magna media pallide Jtava. 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. \\. 



Hab. apud Caput Palmarum (D. Savage). In mus. nostro. 



This curious species has the fore-wings broad, with the fore-margin 

 rather suddenly angulated beyond the middle, and with the apical 

 margin rounded, the extreme tip forming a small, rounded, slightly 

 detached lobe. The general colour of the wing is a dark leaden- 

 coloured blackish-brown, slightly irrorated with fulvous scales, espe- 

 cially towards the tip of the wing, which is rather paler and more 

 varied than the rest. At about one-third from the base runs an ob- 

 lique, black, irregular striga, which is followed by another more 

 slender and indistinct, and more slanting, being suddenly strongly 

 angulated near the costa, where it terminates in a strong black dash. 

 Between the strigse is an ill-defined fulvous-buff patch in the middle 

 of the wing. The hind-wings are blackish brown, with the base pink, 

 and with a large, very pale yellow patch in the middle. The body is 

 blackish brown and slightly irrorated. The abdomen is much swollen 

 in the only specimen I have seen. Beneath, the wings are very much 

 freckled with grey, black, buff and white, especially beyond the 

 middle ; the fore-wings have a large patch of rose-pink along the in- 

 side at the base, followed at some distance by a rather broad, very 

 pale yellow bar ; the hind-wings want the pink colour, but have the 

 pale yellow patch as on the upper side. 



The antennae of the female consist of twenty-two joints, emitting 

 only a pair of rays from the base of each, the apical pair being indi- 

 cated by a very slight serration, followed by about twelve joints at the 

 tip which are destitute of rays. The palpi are porrected into a 

 short distinct muzzle. 



From these characters it will probably be necessary to form this 

 species into a separate subgenus, when the male shall be known. The 

 veins of the wings are arranged as in the typical Saturnice. 



Sp. 27. Saturnia Herilla, Westw. S. alis apice undulatis, 



anticis angulatis brunneo-fulvis valde irroratis, medio fulvescenti 



fascia obliqua fusca abbreviata ; posticis macula magna sul- 



phurea, limbo lato fusco, fulvo irrorato. 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. 4f- . 



Hab. Sierra Leone (D. Morgan). In Mus. Brit. 



Wings fulvous-brown, much varied with darker and lighter shades, 



and with numerous small dark dots and streaks ; the base with a grey 



shade much-mottled with small dark brown patches ; before the 



middle of the wing is an ill-defined, pale, nearly square patch, resting 



on the median vein, but extending narrowly along the costal margin, 



which is much marked with dark dots ; the middle of the wing is 



more uniformly fulvous brown, with a dark, very oblique dash arising 



from the costa, which is considerably curved beyond the middle : a 



dark brown oval patch also rests on the middle of the last branch of 



the median vein ; the apical margin of the wing is scalloped and dark 



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