LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1245 



Phalama Paphia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, ex parte. 

 Bombyx Dione, Fabr. Etit. Syst. iii. 1, 410, 9. 

 Boinbyx Petiveri, Guerin, Ann. Soc. Sericole. 



Var. Saturnia Wahlbergii, Boisduval, Delegorgue. Voy. dans 



VAfriq. Austr. ii. 600. Herr.-S chaff. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser. i. 



pi. 20, f. 95. 



"Palpi short, distinct, deflexed. Male.— Antennae rather broad 



and flat, with forty-four rays on each side, four being emitted from 



each joint; about six of the terminal joints furnished only with 



short, gradually diminishing spurs. Female. — Fore wings not so 



subfalcate as in the male, but with the apical margin slightly emar- 



ginate. Antenna? almost filiform." — Westw. 



Male. Luteous. Wings with two indented purplish bands ; 

 the first near the base; the second submarginal, incomplete on the 

 hind wings ; the second is accompanied on the inner side by a 

 more regular and slender lilac black-bordered band ; and between 

 the latter and the inner band there is on each wing a limpid 

 ocellus, whose luteous border is encircled by a black ringlet, and 

 the latter by a purplish ringlet. Fore wings purplish about the 

 base of the costa. 



Var. /3. Foem. Lutea ; tibia tarsisqne obscure fusca ; alcefasciis 

 tribus purpurascentibus ; \a non bene determinata, intus fusco 

 marginata, 2a recta fusco marginata ; 3a lata, incompleta, 

 macula vitrea luteo-fusco purpureoque marginata. 



Luteous. Tibiae and tarsi dark gray. Wings with an indis- 

 tinct irregular purplish band, extending at one-third of the length 

 from the costa to the interior border of the hind wings, and bor- 

 dered with brown on the inner side ; a more distinct and straight 

 band extends from near the tip of the costa to two-thirds of the in- 

 terior border of the hind wings, and is bordered with brown on both 

 sides ; it is remote from the ocellus of the fore-wings, but touches 

 i that of the hind wings ; a broad irregular and incomplete exterior 

 lilac band; vitreous spot encircled with luteous brown and purple, 

 which circlets are much broader and brighter in the hind wings 

 than in the fore wings. Length of the body 18 lines ; of the wings 

 52 lines. 



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