LEPIDOPTERA. 405 



inwardly by two undulated black lines, the inner line extending round 

 the ocellus ; exterior margin dull buff, with a row of narrow oval 

 marrone-brown spots ; thorax crossed by a pale buff line. Expanse 

 nearly 3 in. 



Genus ATTACUS, Linnceus. 



Phal^na- Attacus, Linnaeus, S. N. I. 11. p. 808 (1767). 

 Attacus, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155. Walker, List Lep. 



Set. Brit. Mus. pt. V. p. 1200. 

 Hyolophora, pt. Duncan, Nat. Libr. VII. 

 Attacus, pt. Latreille. 



927. ATTACUS ATLAS, Linnceus. 



Phalsena- Attacus Atlas, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1. II. p. 808 



(1767) ; Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 366. Cramer, Pap. 



JExot. IV. pp. 180, 183, pi. 381, / C. ; pi. 382, 



f. A. 

 Attacus Atlas, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156. 



Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. pt. V. p. 1218. 

 Bombyx Atlas, Fabricius, Syst. Lint. p. 566 ; Spec. Ins. 



II. p. 167; Mant. Lns. II. p. 108; Ent. Syst. 



III. I. p. 407 ; Olivier, JEnc. Meth. Lns. V. p. 24<, 

 pi. 69,/i 1. 



var. Phalsena-Attacus Atlas, Cramer, Bap. Fxot. I. p. 13, 



pi, 9,f. A. 

 var. Saturnia Silhetica, Heifer, Jburn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



Yl.p. 41 (1837). 



a. b. c. d. $ ? . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 

 e.f.S ? . Madras. Presented by S. N. Ward, Esq. 

 g. h. S ¥ • Silhet. Presented by Col. Buckley. 

 i. £. Darjeeling. From Indian Collection, Exposition 

 Universelle at Paris, 1855. 



The larva and cocoon of Attacus Atlas are figured on Plate XX., 

 figs. 2, 2a, from Java. " Feeds on the Melokka (Bhyllanthus Fmblica), 

 Kupu-gaja, &c. December to January. Eather common." — (Hors- 

 field, MS.) 



From the MS. Notes made by Lady Isabella Eose Gilbert in 1825, 

 we extract the following: — "A specimen (female) of this magnificent 

 moth was caught on the 4th September. On the following morning 

 she laid several pink-and-white eggs. On the 15th the young cater- 



