60 SATUKNIID^. 



Under surface pale buff, with, the bands and stripes arranged nearly as above ; the submar- 

 ginal stripe much more deeply sinuated, alternating from dark to lights the sinuations being 

 blackish and the undulations greyish white ; ocelli smaller than above : legs with the tibiae 

 and tarsi rosy. Expanse of wings 5 inches 7 lines. 

 Darjiling {Indian Museum and Lidderdale) . 



ATTACUS, Linn. 



Attacus edwardsii. (Plates XCIL & XCIII.) 



c?. Attacus edwardsii, White, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 115, pi. lvii. 



<$ ? . Wings above deep laky brown, clouded with black ; each wing crossed near the 

 base by a white belt, that of the primaries angulated and bidentated, that of the secondaries 

 oblique and slightly concave ; a large triangular yellow-bordered hyaline white patch in the 

 centre of each wing, followed by an irregularly-sinuated olive-bordered white belt ; disk 

 irrorated with white scales ; apical area of primaries broadly ferruginous, clouded with grey, 

 with two black spots united by an irregularly deeply sinuated white line, the upper spot upon 

 the costa ; an orange submarginal curved belt, enclosing the falcated apical area externally, 

 and continued below the radials in the form of double crescents or 3-shaped spots of a dull 

 yellow colour margined with black ; outer border grey : secondaries with the submarginal 

 area blackish, traversed by a continuous series of yellow-bordered reniform patches ; outer 

 border greyish brown, traversed by two black stripes : body above purplish brown ; head and 

 antennae rusty orange ; a white patch at the base of each antenna ; back of the thorax snow- 

 white; abdomen with two dorsal lines, a series of lateral tufts, and the anus white. Under 

 surface nearly as above ; wings with no subbasal belt ; secondaries with cream-coloured costa. 

 Expanse of wings, <$ 9 inches 6 lines, $ 10 inches. 



Darjiling. 



PHILOSAMIA, Grote. 



Philosamia lunula. (Plate XCIV. fig. 1 .) 



Attacus lunula, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1221. n. 18 (1855). 



Dusky brown, with the basal two thirds of the wings slightly reddish and bounded 

 externally on each wing by a white angulated belt, united to a paler pinky-whitish or flesh- 

 tinted belt ; the subbasal belt white and similarly formed to that of Attacus ; the ocelli as 

 usual represented by yellow and white maggot-like markings, edged with black, that of the 

 primaries lying against the postmedian belt just below the angulation, that of the secondaries 

 arched and only touching the belt at its outer extremity ; apical area pinky whitish, shading 

 into ochraceous internally, and bounded externally by an abbreviated gravel-yellow band, 

 margined internally by a zigzag white line, and interrupted by an oval blackish spot enclosing 



