400 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus ACTIAS, Leach. 



Aotias, Leach, Zool. Misc. 11. p. 25 (1815). Macleay. 



TitOP^A, Hubner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 152 (1816). Walker, List 



Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. pt. VI. p. 1259. 

 Plecteoptebon, Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. V. p. 45 (1847). 

 Phal.&na-Attacus, pt. Linnceus. 

 Bombyx, pt. Ealricius. 



924. ACTUS SELENE, Macleay. 



Actias Selene, Macleay, LeacVs Zool. Misc. II. p. 26, 

 pi. 70 (1815). Hutton, P. Z. S. (1856), p. 5. 



Tropsea Selene, Hubner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 158. 



Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. VI. p. 1262. 



Plectropteron Selene, Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. V. p. 85. 



Plectropteron Diana?, Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. V. p. 45 

 (1847) ; Ann. Nat. Hist. XVII. p. 60. 



Phalaena-Attacus Luna, Cramer, Pap. Exot. I. pi. 31, 

 f. A. B. (nee. Brury). 



a. b. c. <$ ? . N. India. Presented by Col. Buckley. 

 d. e. ? . Darjeeling. From Indian Collection, Expo- 

 sition Universelle at Paris, 1855. 



The larva of Actias Selene is figured on Plate XIX., figs. 3, 3a, — fig. 3 

 the young larva (fourth stage) copied from the original drawing made 

 by Lady Isabella Bcse Gilbert ; fig. 3« (adult larva) is copied from 

 Capt. Hutton's figure in the Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. V. pi. V. 



Capt. Thomas Hutton has communicated* the following interesting 

 remarks respecting this moth : — " A specimen of this splendid moth 

 was brought to me on the 13th April, 1842, by a boy, who had cap- 

 tured it in a deep and warmly-sheltered glen at Mussooree. The 

 specimen was a female, and was found clinging to the branches of a 

 tree, or rather shrub, very similar to the Tartarian honeysuckle ; it 

 was accompanied by a male (in coitu), which effected its escape. As 

 the specimen was much injured by her rough captor, I suffered her 

 to live and deposit her eggs, which she did on the evening of the same 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV. p. 221 ; id, V. pp. 45, 85. 



