BY A. JEFPEEIS TURNER. 353 



spurs only. Tarsi hairy. Forewings with 2 from shortly beyond middle, 3 from 

 shortly before angle, 4 from angle, 5 from upper angle, 6 from shortly before 

 angle, 7, 9, 11 stalked, 11 separating near apex. Hindwings with 2 from three- 

 fourths, 3 from before angle, 5 from upper angle, 6 from shortly before angle, 7 

 from four-fifths. 



Type, A. paphia Lin. from India. The genus Saturnia Lin. is closely allied, 

 apparently tliffering only in the naked tarsi. 



1. Ocelli of both wings small and mostly hyaline janetta. 



Ocelli of both wings moderate, hyalin^centre dot-like or vestigial 2. 



2. Forewings without rosy patch at apex astrophela. 



Forewings with rosy patch at apex 3. 



3. Forewings without ante-median line 4. 



Forewings with ante-median line indicated 5. 



4. Anterior edge of thorax broadly fuscous loranthi. 



Anterior edge of thorax not fuscous engaea. 



5. Forewings with a triangular, whitish, subcostal mark before 



middle eucalypti. 



Forewings without whitish triangle lielena. 



1. Antheraea janetta. 



Saturnia janetta, White, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xii., 1843, p. 344. — S. mel- 

 villa, Westw., Froe. Zool. Soc, 1853, p. 166. — Antheraea purpurascens, Wlk., 

 Cat. Brit. Mus., ssviii., p. 528. — A. insignis, Wlk., ih., p. 529. — A. disjuncta, 

 Wlk., ib., p. 529. 



c?. 100-120 mm. Head and palpi yellow, brown, or grey-brown. Antennae 

 oehreous. Thorax yellow, brown, or grey; a broad transverse anterior whitish 

 line mixed with brownish. Abdomen and legs yellow, brown, os gTey. Fore- 

 wings broadly triangailar, slightly falcate, costa straight to two-thirds, thence 

 very strongly arched, apex rounded, produced, termen strongly sinuate, slightly 

 oblique; usually bright-yellow, more or less suffused in centre of disc with brown, 

 sometimes wholly brown or dark-grey; basal half of costa broadly suffused with 

 whitish; three dark-grey or brown transverse lines more or less distinct; first 

 from one-third costa, at first transverse, then abruptly bent inwards so as to 

 approach costa at one-sixth, forming a rounded angle, from which it proceeds 

 outwards, and after several dentations reaches dorsum at one-fourth; second from 

 five-sixths costa to three-fifths dorsum, crenate; third from near apex to three- 

 fourths dorsum, slightly wavy; a small, circular, hyaline, diseal ocellus, margined 

 with whitish, at two-thirds ; sometimes a dark line on or near termen ; cilia eon- 

 colorous. Hindwings with termen rounded; colour as forewings; first line at 

 one-third; wavy; a median diseal spot; second line at two-thirds, crenate; third 

 line represented by a series of spots. 



$. 120-160 mm. Forewing not falcate, termen nearly straight; colour and 

 markings similar. 



N. Aust. : Darwin, Melville Is. ; N. Qland : Thursday Is., Cape York, Bloom- 

 field River, Dunk Is., Herberton, Ingham, I'owns^alle ; Qland : Roekhampton, 

 Brisbane, Coolangatta, Toowoomba; N.S.W. : Lismore. 



2. Antheraea astrophela. 



Antheraea astrophela, Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., v., p. 1255. — A. simplex, Wlk., 



ib.. p. 1256.^0podip:hthera varicolor, Wlgrn., Wien Ent. Hon., iv., 1860, p. 167. 



c?. 90-105 mm. ?. 100-115 mm. Head yellow, orange, brown, or reddish. 



