1244 CATALOGUE OF 



flecked with black ; under side mostly fawn-colour, which in the 

 hind win<js especially is varied with white. Length of the body 13 

 lines ; of the wiugs 50 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



6. Anther,ea Tyrkhea. 



Alee subcinerece nigro irroratce ; anticce striga ante medium alba 

 valde dentata ; omnes ocello mediano (majore in alis posticis) 

 vitreo, iride subcinereo fulva annulis concentricis nigro, fulvo 

 et albo circumcincta ; omnes etiam striga versus marginem 

 duplicata undata communi. 



Saturnia Tyrrhea, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, 43, 7. 

 Bombyx Tyrrhea, Fabr. Gen. Ins. Mant. 278 ; Sp. Ins. ii. 171, 20 ; 



Mant. Ins. ii. J 09, 22; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 415, 27. Oliv. Enc. 



Meth. Ins. v. 30, 25, pi. 70, f. 3. 

 Phalaena- Bombyx Attacus Tyrrhea, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 71, pi. 46, 



f. A. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2407, 482. 

 Aglia Tirrhaea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalamce Sphingoides 



Echidna Lunata), 152, 1594. 



" Palpi distinct, very short. Male. — Antennae moderately 

 broad and flat, with fifty-two rays on each side; the four or five ter- 

 minal joints very short, without producing any rays ; the rays are 

 for the most part of nearly equal length, so that the broad part of 

 the antennae has its sides nearly parallel. Female. — Fore wings 

 with the outer margin entire. Antennae compressed, with scarcely 

 any rudiment of pectinations. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



b. Cape. From M. Drege's collection. 





7. Anthers a Dione. 



Ala sulphur eo-Jlava? ; antica in mare parum falcatce, strigis 

 duabus, anteriore antice recta, postice dentata carnea, posteriore 

 (communi) recta obscuriore ; anticce etiam plaga albo-carnea 

 basali alter aque versus apicem cos tee nubilaque lata undata 

 pone strigam externan subcinereo-carneis ; omnes in medio 

 ocello (in posticis majore), pupilla minuta vitrea, iride fulva 

 annulis nigro, albo carneoque circumcincta. 



Saturnia Dione, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, 44, 9, 

 Phalaena Guineensis, Petiver, Guzoph. pi. 29, f. 3. 478. 





