BY A. JEFFEEIS TURNER. 600 



Qland: Jandowae, in March; two specimens bred by Mrs. Hobler. Charle- 

 ville, in September and December; two specimens. 



5. Antheeaea eucalypti. 



Antheraea eucalypti, Scott, Aust. Lep., i., 1864, PL i. 



<i. 110-120 mm. 2. 120-140 mm. Head and palpi reddish or brown. 

 Antennae brownish. Thorax reddish or greyish-brown; anterior third whitish 

 mixed, or posteriorly edged, with fuscous. Abdomen reddish or greyish-brown. 

 Legs reddish or brown. Forewings triang-ular, in c? strongly falcate, costa 

 straight to four-fifths, thence strongly arched, apex rounded, termen very strongly 

 sinuate in <S, nearly straight in 2; reddish, brown, or greyish; a moderate cir- 

 cular ocellus slightly beyond middle, reddish, edged anteriorly fii-st with whitish, 

 then with dark-reddish, posteriorly first with pale-yellow, then with dark-reddish 

 or fuscous, a central hyaline dot; a broad costal streak to about five-sixths, 

 whitish mixed with fuscous; a fine, transverse, reddish line from near base of 

 dorsum, not reaching costa, edged anteriorly with whitish, in ? nearly obsolete; 

 a small, white, subcostal triangle at one-fourth edged posteriorly with dark- 

 reddish; a suffused rosy apical patch, preceded by a blackish subcostal spot in a 

 patch of whitish suffusion; a faint dark-reddish or fuscous line from three-fifths 

 dorsum obliquely outwards, passing closely posterior to ocellus, but not reaching 

 costa; terminal edge and cilia ochreous-grey, sometimes edged with orange. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded; colour as forewings; ocellus as forewings but orange 

 and larger, broadly margined with blackish, anteriorly with a narrow whitish 

 lunule within the margin; a reddish or fuscous obliquely transverse line at one- 

 fourth; a similar subterminal line from costa, curved at fli'st parallel to termen, 

 then straight to three-fourths dorsum; ciHa as forewings, but with a broad sub- 

 marginal orange line. 



N. Qland: Herberton; Qland: Brisbane, Toowoomba; N.S.W. : Sydney; 

 Vict.: Melbourne, Gisborne; Tas. — 



6. Antheraea Helena. 



Satumia helena, WTiite, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xii., 1843, p. 344. — Antheraea 

 intermedia, Luc, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1889, p. 1091. 



c?. 130-160 mm. ?. 170 mm. Head and palpi reddish-brown. Antennae 

 brownish. Thorax oehreous-brown ; anterior third grey-whitish. Abdomen och- 

 reous-brown. Legs brown. Forewings triangular, in <S slightly falcate, costa 

 straight to two-thirds, thence arched, apex rounded, termen in c? sinuate, in 2 

 nearly straight, oblique; oehreous-brown; costa broadly suft'used with grey-whitish 

 to two-thirds; a moderate ocellus beyond middle, reddish, edged anteriorly with 

 whitish, posteriorly with yellow, the whole margined with dark-red or fuscous, a 

 central hyaline dot; ante-median line often indistinct, reddish, from one-fourth 

 costa, sharply bent inwards in disc, and again transverse to dorsum; an oblique 

 line from two-thirds dorsum proceeding well posterior to ocellus, not reaching 

 costa, reddish edged posteriorly with ochreous-whitish ; a small, suffused, rosy 

 apical patch, preceded by a blackish subcostal spot surrounded by whitish suf- 

 fusion; terminal edge and cilia pale-yellowish. Hindwings with termen very 

 slightly rounded; colour as forewings; ocellus larger than in forewings, orange, 

 broadly margined with blackish, with a slender, whitish, anterior lunule inside 

 margin; ante-median -line near base, oblique; post-median at five-sixths, nearly 

 parallel to termen. 



