1280 CATALOGUE OF 



Female, Abdomen extending to three-fourths of the breadth 

 of the hind wings. Wings broad. Fore wings acuminated, hardly 

 falcate, convex in front, straight and rather oblique along the exte- 

 rior border. 



2. Hypeechiria Metzli. 



Cervina ; abdomen ex parte rubrum ; alee anticce plaga discali 

 margineque exteriore pallidioribus^ guttis nonnullis discalibus 

 nigris ; posticce ocello maximo atro, pupilla cinerea albo con- 

 spersa et lineata, fasciis duabus exterioribus, una angusta 

 fusca, altera lata rufescente. 



Saturnia Metzli, Salle, Rev. et Mag. de Zoologie, 2me Ser. v. 



Fawn-colour. Fore wings slightly falcate, with some blackish 

 transverse streaks from the base to the middle, with an oblique pale 

 band, beyond which is a broad parallel brownish band. Hind 

 wings with a large black round discal spot or eye, which contains a 

 three-forked slender white mark ; this eye is half encircled at 

 a short interval with a slender black half ring, and beyond at 

 anothershort interval with a broad red ring which joins the red on 

 the iiiner border. Disk of the thorax brown. Abdomen reddish, 

 with a brown stripe. 



a. Guatimala. From M. Salle's collection. 



b, ? From Mr. Milne's collection . 



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Group 2. 



Mas et foem. Alae lata?, non longas ; anticae subfalcatas antice 

 convexae, margin e exteriore sat obliquo fere recto. Mas. — Alas pos- 

 ticae abdomen longe superantes. Foem. — Alae posticae abdomen 

 perpaullo superantes. 



Wings broad, not long. Fore wings slightly falcate, convex in 

 front, rather oblique and almost straight along the exterior border. 

 Male. — Abdomen extending to two-thirds of the breadth of the hind 

 wings. Female. — Abdomen extending to five-sixths of the breadth 

 of the hind wings. 



