1286 CATALOGUE OF 



Pbalaena-Bombyx Attacus Salmonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 101, pL 



162, f. A; iv. 218, pi. 395, f. A. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 



2406, 479. 

 Bombyx Salmonea, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 173, 30; Mant. Ins. ii. 110, 



35 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 1,419, 39. Oliv. Enc. Metk. v. 37, 47. 

 Automeris Salmonea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalcence Sphingoides 



Echidnce Recondentes, 155, 1613. 



Var. a. Eeddish brown . Abdomen with red bands. Fore wings 

 with two transverse testaceous discal streaks, and with an exterior 

 slender black band. Hind wings red, with a slender exterior black 

 band, and some indistinct bands nearer the exterior border ; ocellus 

 ferruginous, with a brown centre, which contains a white lunule, 

 and with two concentric outward rings, the black inner one much 

 broader than the yellow outer one. 



Var. jS. Fawn-colour. Abdomen with testaceous bands. Fore 

 wings with the base and two indistinct bands brownish ; a broad 

 middle testaceous band, and two slender reddish bands, which con- 

 verge towards the interior border ; the exterior one is bordered with 

 white on the inner side, and they contain a large irregular discal 

 reddish ringlet. Hind wings testaceous, with four exterior bands ; 

 first band dark brown, slender; second white, slender; third pale 

 brown, rather broad ; fourth whitish, rather broad; ocellus black, 

 with a white-sprinkle cl centre, which is sprinkled with white and is 

 bordered with red ; the black has an incomplete red and white border, 



Surinam. 



Group 2. 



Fosm. Corpus robustum. Antennae thorace paullo longiores, 

 setis brevissimis instructs, non pectinate. Alee latiusculs ; antics 

 apice angulatae non falcats, apud costam convexs, margine exte- 

 riore subconvexo sat obliquo ; posticse abdomen perpaullo super- 



antes. 



Female. Body stout. Antenna? a little longer than the 

 thorax, with rather more than thirty joints, not pectinated, but mi- 

 nutely setose. Abdomen extending almost as far as the hind wings. 

 Wings moderately broad. Fore wings almost rectangular and not 

 falcate at the tips, convex in front ; exterior border rather oblique, 

 very slightly concave ; second inferior vein about thrice further from 

 the third than from the first. 





