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far as then known, was published by myself in the ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society,' in 1849 (with four coloured plates) containing 

 thirty-three species, of which half were previously undescribed. Of 

 these, perhaps the most striking is the long-tailed species Actias 

 mimosa, with pale green wings, which lives upon the mimosa, on 

 the banks of the river Tugela, the southern boundary of Zululand, the 

 cocoons of which are used by the natives for tobacco-boxes. Another 

 fine species is Sattirnia Alcinoe, Cramer, Pap. Ex., pi. 322, f. A, B 

 (Var? 5. Caffraria, Stoll, Suppl. Cramer, Pap. Ex., pi. 31, f. 2, ic; S. 

 Caffra, Boisduval in Delegorgue's Voy. Afr. Austr., ii. p. 601). A 

 specimen of this species, measuring seven inches in the expansion of 

 the fore wings, was taken by Mr. Oates, but the precise locality was 

 not recorded. Another species was also captured by Mr. Oates, which 

 may be thus characterized : — 



Saturnia cervina, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, 

 App- P- 357 (1881). 



Toto roseo-cervina, alis anticis spatio minuto transverso squamis 

 destituta ad apicem celluke, striolaque paullo obscuriori paullo curvata 

 et vix distincta inter cellulam et marginem posticum ; alis posticis 

 macula parva trigona ad apicem cellulse ; abdomine magis fulvo ; alis 

 anticis apice subrotundatis. Expans. alar, antic, unc. 4§. 



Habitat prope Tati. 



A beautiful species, nearly allied to the European Emperor-moth, 

 was also taken by Mr. Oates : — 



Saturnia flavida, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, xix. p. 



462 (1877) ; Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, App. 



p. 357 (1S81). 



S. Apollonice, Cramer (Pap. Ex. pi. 250, f. A), persimilis ; differt 



colore fusco-griseo alarum flavido-tincto, fascia fusca pone ocellum, 



absque maculis duabus nigricantibus subapicalibus, colore fusco sub- 



apicali omnium alarum intus flavido latius marginato. Expans. alar. 



antic, unc. 3-3-. 



Habitat prope Gubuluwayo. 1 



1 Descriptions of two additional species of Sat?imia in the Hopeian collection closely- 

 allied to S.Jlavida, together with that of a remarkable species collected by Mr. Buxton, may 

 be added here : — 



Saturnia Terpsichorina, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. i, App. p. 357 

 (1881). 



5". Apollonia; similis at multo minor et pallidior, ocello alarum anticarum ovali, fascia 

 tenui extus connexa, hac prope apicem alse absque maculis duabus nigris ; alis posticis basi 

 albis absque fascia indistincta subbasali, ocello ovali extus cum fascia tenui fusca conjuncta, 

 fascia 2da submarginali ut in 6". Apollonia ; thoracis dorso macula livido-fusca ; incisuris 

 abdominis livido-marginatis. Expans. alar, antic, unc. 2J. 



Habitat in Afric. merid. -orient. In Mus. Hopeiano. 



Saturnia Dyops, Maassen and Weymer, Beitr. Schmett., f. 21 (1S72). 



This species is also closely allied to 5". Apollonia, but wants the ocellus on the hind 



