12G Journal Nkw \'(>rk K\r. Soc. [Voi.. ii. 



var. rossi Rois. 



1872 — Actios rossi Ross, Cat. Lep. Can., p. 5, (note). 

 Body white, thora.x tinged with yellow with a broad purple 

 band behind tlie collar. Wings pale green, the color inhering in 

 the wing membrane and not in the vestiture, which is white. A 

 broad costal purple band on primaries throwing out a short discal 

 band.' Discal spots rounded, hyaline centrally, narrowly edged 

 with white, crimson and, yellow and with black and blue inwardly. 

 Fringe tinged with ci^iison and yellow. The var. rossi lacks the 

 green tint. Ivxpanse/ioo — 125 mm. ; length of tails, 35 — 40 mm. 



Habitat, Atlan^ States southwestward to Texas. 



(lenus Telea Habncr. 

 1822 — Teh-a IliiHNER, \'erz. bck. Sclimett., p. 154, 

 T. polyphemus Cramer. 



1775 — A/tacus po/ypht'niiis Q.KXWKK, Pap. Exot., Vol. I, pi. 5, figs. A. 15. 



1764 — Boinhyx piiphia LiNN.i=:us, Mus. Ulr., p. 369. 



\%\i—Pliala:na fenestra Tekky, Arcana. 



1S83 — Telea polyphenius var. ocnlea NicuMGCtiEN, Pap., Vol. Ill, p. 71. 



Ocherous brown either pale or dark and reddish. Costa of 

 primaries and collar gray. Basal line on primaries reddish, dislo- 

 cated on median vein. Outer line gray, bordered with white with 

 a duplicate black costal streak bordered anteriorly with pink. 

 Discal mark round hyaline edged with a yellow and a black line. 

 Secondaries without basal line, the outer line broad. Discal mark 

 as on primaries, but situated in the outer part of a large, oval, 

 black ocellus, sprinkled with blue scales. Expanse, no — 120 mm. 



Habitat, North America throughout. 



(tcuus Saturnia Sclirank. 



18:2 — Saturnia Schrank, Fauna Boica, \'ol. II (i), p. 149. 

 1806 — Iltraa IIIihner, Tentamen, p. i. 

 i'$i22l—ravoiiia IIuhner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 157. 

 i8S6—Ca/osatur>/ia Smith, rroc. U. S. Nat. Mus , Vol. IX, p. 432. 



S. mendocino Bchrciis. 



l?>-]b -Saturnia iiiemlocijin lii'.iiRENS, Can. Ent., Vol. \'IH, p. 149. 



Fore wings reddish brown with blackish costa, and an apical 

 carmine shade, becoming black inwardly and centered with white. 

 Secondaries orange ochraceous shaded with black with an outer 

 diffuse black band. Discal spots round, black, containing an 

 orange ring and blue crescentic mark. Thorax reddish, collar 



