

LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1317 



Saturnia Lucina, Westw. Ed. Drury, iii. 45, pi. 34, f. 1; Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Loud. 1849, 56, 25. 

 Bombyx Lucina, Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins. v. 31, 27. 

 Sierra Leone. 



This species probably constitutes a distinct genus. 



Genus 19. HEMILEUCA. 



Corpus valde pilosum. Palpi pilosi, brevissimi. Antenna? 

 thorace paullo longiores. Alae rnediocriter latae, non longae, striga 

 semihyalina discali; anticae apud costara rectae, apice rotundata?, 

 margine exteriore obliquo subrecto; postics abdomen non su- 

 perantes. Mas. — -Antenna? late peetinatae ; rami graciles, ciliati, 

 aequaliter longi, non duplicati. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus, p., Drury ; Cram. ; GmeL 

 Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Oliv. 

 Saturnia, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 157. 

 Saturnia, p., Westw. 



Body very hairy. Proboscis not visible. Palpi pilose, very 

 short ; third joint very small. Antennae rather longer than the 

 thorax. Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. Legs stout, 

 pilose ; hind tibiae with two minute apical spurs. Wings mode- 

 rately broad, not long; each with a semihyaline discal streak. 

 Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, oblique and almost 

 straight along the exterior border ; interior angle rounded ; discal 

 areolet closed ; three inferior veins ; second very near the first, very 

 remote from the third. Male. — Antennae deeply pectinated ; 

 branches of equal length, slender, single, ciliated. Abdomen 

 hardly stout 



North America. 



1. Hemileuca Maja. 



Alee rotundaice nigra, fascia alba maculaque subocellari nigra; 

 anus rufescens. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus Maja, Drury, III. Ins. Exot. ii. 42, pi. 



24, f. 3. Append, ii. Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 3, pi. 98, f. A. 

 Bombyx Proserpina, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 561, 17; Sp. Ins. ii. 173, 



31 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 110, 35; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 419, 40. Oliv. 



Enc. Meth. Ins. vii. 37, 48. 

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



2407, 480. Abbot and Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georg. pi. 



50. Pal. Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Amer. Lep. pi. 24, f. 2, 3. 



