528 CATALOGUE OF 



Anther^a Rumphii. 

 -, Rumphj Herbarium, Amboinensa, 3, 114, pi. 75 D. 



Antheraea Rumphii, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. ii. 386, 387; Feld. 

 Sitz. Akad. Wiss. xliii. 31. 



Amboina. 



Antherjea Astrophela. 



Astrophela, Cat. Lep. Het. v. 1255. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Stutchbury's collections. 



AntherjEa Semper 

 Semperi, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. v. 305. 

 Luzon. 



Anthers a Yama-mai. 

 Bombyx Yama-mai, Guerin, Rev. et Mag. Zool. xiii. 435. 

 Japan. 



Anthers a purpurascens. 



Mas. Ochracea ; palpi obscvriores ; thorax fascia purpureo- 

 cinerea ; alee fasciis duabus dentatis obliquis purpureis ; 

 anticce gutta vitreafusco marginata, fascia antemedia obliqua 

 purpurea, costa basi purpureo -cinerea ; posticce macula 

 elongata fusca purpurascente marginata, fascia exteriore pur- 

 purea den lata interrupta. 



Male. Ochraceous. Palpi dark ochraceous, porrect, not ex- 

 tending beyond the head. Antennas broadly pectinated. Thorax 

 with a purplish cinereous band in front. Abdomen little more than 

 half the length of the interior border of the hind wiugs. Wings 

 with two purple oblique deeply dentate bands. Fore wings with a 

 vitreous brown-bordered dot on the inner side of the first band ; an 

 oblique purple band nearer the base; costa purplish cinereous 

 towards the base. Hind win^s with an elongated brown purplish- 

 bordered spot between the bands; a third exterior incomplete purple 

 dentate band. Length of the body 14 lines; of the wings 64 

 lines. 



a. North Australia. Presented by J. R. Elsey, Esq. 



