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worth introducing, and also of S. Cynthia, which seems to be acclimated 

 in Italy. 



" This species, I believe, is confined to the hills from 5,000 feet 

 upward to 7,000 feet, and perhaps higher ; it occurs also in Sylhet, 

 as Major Jenkins kindly sent me a drawing of what I take to be this 

 species." 



The transformations of Actias Selene are also figured in vol. III. 

 pi. 84, of the original drawings made by Lady Isabella Rose Gilbert, 

 the larva being represented in three stages. The cocoon is attached 

 to and nearly covered by a couple of leaves. 



Genus SATURNIA, Schrank. 



Saturnia, Schrank, Faun. Boica, II. pt. II. p. 149 (1S02). Walker, 



List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. VI. p. 1268. 

 Pavonia, BZubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 157 (1816). 

 PhaLjENA-Attactts, pt. Linnaeus, 

 Bombtx, pt. Fabricius. 



925. SATURNIA PYRETORUM, Boisduval. 



Saturnia Pyretorum, Boisduval, MS. West wood, Cabinet 

 Orient. Fnt. p. 49, pi. 24, / 2 (1847). Walker, 

 List Lep. Ret. Brit. Mas. pt. VI. p. 1273. 



a. S • China. Presented by Colonel Buckley. 



926. SATURNIA GROTEI, Moore. 



Saturnia Grotei, Moore, P. Z. S. (1859), p. , pi. LXII. 

 Jig. 2. 



a. Darjeeling. From Indian Collection, Exposition 

 Universelle at Paris, 1855. 



Saturnia Grotei, n. sp. — Fore-ioing pale buft-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 marrone- 

 coloured ocellus, 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 marrone-coloured patch and a black spot, both of which 

 are irrorated with white scales ; exterior margin dull buff, with a row 

 of narrow oval marrone-brown spots : hind-iving brownish at the base 

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

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



