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Phalaena Attacus Phaedusa, Drury, Illustr. Exot. Ins. iii. pi. 24, 25. 



Append. 

 Bombyx Saturnus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 409 ; Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 



27, 11. 



" Palpi short, thin, distinct. Antennae short ; each joint emit- 

 ting four rays lying flat." — Westiv. 



Sierra Leone. 



a. West Africa. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



4. BuNiEA Alinda. 



Alee rufo-fuscce margine externo saturatiore strigisque variis undu- 

 latis obscuris prcesertim pone medium, macula semiovali me- 

 diana vitrea ; posticce ocello magno pupilla vitrea, iride fulva 

 annulo nigro cincta. 



Saturnia Alinda, Westw. ed. Drury, iii. pi. 26, f. 119. Proc. ZooL 



Soc. Lond. 1849, 50, 15. 

 Phalaena Attacus Alinda, Drury, Illustr. Exot. Ins. iii. 24, pi. 19. 



Append, iii. 

 Bombyx Alinda, Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 26, 10, pi. 69, f. 6. 



Sierra Leone. 



5. BuNiEA NICTITANS. 



Alee anticce margine apicali intcgro, fusco incarnatce medio obscu- 

 riore, strigo tenuissima angulata prope basin alteraque recta 

 subapicali fuscis punctoque parvo medio vitreo ; posticce con- 

 colores ocello magno medio pupilla parva vitrea, iride jlavo, 

 annulis nigro, puniceo et albo cincta, strigaque transversa nigra 

 subapicali. 



Bombyx nictitans, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 558, 6 ; Sp. Ins. ii. 169, 12 ; 



Mant. Ins. ii. 109, 14 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 413, 19. Oliv. Enc. 



Meth. Ins. v. 28, 17. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus nictitans, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2404, 



469. 

 Saturnia nictitans, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, 55, 22. 



" Palpi short, distinct, deflexed. Male. — Antennae thirty-nine- 

 jointed, with fifty-ei^ht rays on each side (four from each of the 

 twenty-nine or thirty basal joints), the rays lying nearly flat. Fern, 

 — Antennae about forty-two jointed, only thinly serrated, each joint 





