1218 CATALOGUE OF 



border, with a slender reddish brown band, which is accompanied 

 on the inner side by reddish brown lunules. Length of the body 8 

 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Senegal. From M. Becker's collection. 



Asia. 



A. Alee macula vitrea trigona. - Atlas, Linn. 



B. Alee macula vitrea lunata. 



A. Alae lunula elongata. - Cynthia, Drury. 



B. Alae lunula brevi. lunula, MSS. 



Group 1. 



Antennae thorace paullo longiores. Alse macula magna trigona 

 vitrea variabili; anticae valde falcatae, apud costam valde convexae, 

 margin e exteriore valde concavo ; posticae fere duplo latiores quam 

 longae, abdomen plus bis triente superantes. Mas. — Alse antics 

 plus falcatae. Fcem. — Alae anticae minus falcatae. 



Antennae a little longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending 

 to much less than one-third of the breadth of the hind wings. 

 Wings with a large discal distinctly triangular vitreous spot, which 

 is very variable in shape. Fore wings very convex in front, much 

 or very much hooked at the tips, deeply concave on the exterior 

 border. Hind wings nearly twice broader than long, very much 

 broader than the fore wings ; vitreous spot with the angle towards 

 the interior border truncated. Male.— Wings more falcate than 

 those of the female. 



16. Attacus Atlas. 

 Alee falcatce luteo varies, macula fenestrata, anticis sesquialtera, 



Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus Atlas, Linn. Syst. Nat. 808, 1 ; Mus. 



Lud. Ulr. 366. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 180, 183, pi. 381, f. C. ; 



pi. 382, f. A. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2400, 1 . 

 , Petiv. Gazoph. pi. 8, f. 7. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 



Dec. 2, ann. 2. Valent. Mus. ii. 168, pi. 64. Merian, Ins. 



Sur. pi. 52. Knorr, Delict Nat. Select, pi. C. 4, 1. Seba, 



Mus. iv. pi. 57, f. 2, 3 ; pi. 58, f. 6, 10. 

 Bombyx Atlas, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 556, 1 ; Sp. Ins. ii. 167, 1 ; Mant. 



Ins. ii. 108, 1 ; Ent. Syst. iii. ], 407, 1. Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins. 



v. 24, 1, pi. 69, f. 1. 



