16 SATUBNIIDJE. 



area shading from pink through, purplish fuscous to tawny brown ; 

 apical area yellow shading to pink ; the membrane below the costa 

 crimped and suffused outwardly with blue-grey and ending in a 

 black spot ; a dark red streak below vein 8 ; a yellow-brown 

 marginal band with a highly waved black line on it. Hind wing 

 similar to fore wing ; the antemedial line nearly straight ; no 

 streak above the hyaline triangular mark; the postmedial line 

 angled towards inner margin but not curved : apical area not 

 variegated ; a series of black spots within the black submarginal 

 line which is less waved. 



Some specimens are considerably darker than others ; the form 

 taprobanis from Ceylon has the hyaline spots small and narrow ; 

 the hyaline streak of the fore wing absent. 



Larva pale green with brownish speckles ; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd 

 somites with dorsal prominences ; 4th to 11th somites with 

 long fleshy dorsal and subdorsal blue-green spines projecting back- 

 wards ; a series of lateral blue-black spines on 1st to 5th somites : 

 a similar subdorsal series from 1st to 11th somites, both these 

 series projecting forwards ; an oval red ring on anal somite above 

 the claspers. 



Cocoon pale greyish brown and pyriform. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. Exp., <$ 

 224, 2 250 millim. 



5. Attacus edwardsi, White, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 115, pi. 57; C.fy S. 



no. 1538. 



Differs from atlas in the legs being fringed with white ; the 

 thorax and abdomen darker ; the first segment of abdomen white ; 

 paired dorsal white segmental streaks from the third segment to 

 extremity, which is white ; two lateral and two ventral white 

 lines. Tore wing much darker, the antemedial line inwardly 

 black, outwardly white; the triangular hyaline spot edged 

 with yellow-brown, and not touching the postmedial line ; no 

 hyaline streak ; the postmedial line white and broader ; the sub- 

 apical streak black and short ; a prominent waved white line 

 between it and the black spot at end of the crimped membrane ; 

 the marginal band yellow within the waved black line, which is 

 broader. Hind wing with similar differences from atlas; the 

 black spots on the marginal band much larger. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Shillong. Exp. 250 millim. 



6. Attacus Cynthia, Drury, Exot. Ins. ii, pi. 6, fig. 2; C. $ S. 



no. 1537 ; Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. pi. 20, figs. 3, 3 a. 

 Attacus vesta, Wtk. Cat. xxxii, p. 525 ; C. fy S. no. 1544. 

 Attacus canningii. Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 525 ; C. 8f S. no. 1536. 

 Attacus "svalkeri, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. vi, p. 34. 

 Attacus pryeri, Butl. III. Met. iii, p. 11, pi. 43, fig. 5. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; collar and metathorax 

 fringed with white ; abdomen with the 1st segment white ; a 



