24 sattjrniid^e. 



area pink ; an antemedial curved red-brown line ; ocellus as on 

 fore wing, but larger and better defined ; two waved postmedial 

 red-brown lines ; outer area bright chestnut ; margin brown. 

 Some specimens are browner than others, especially those from 

 Sikhim. 



Cocoon dark and fenestrated. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 120-158 millim. 



22. Saturnia fcuttoni, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i, p. 321 ; C. fy S. 



do. 1551. 



2 • Differs from simla in the antemedial line of the fore wing 

 being waved; the space between that and the postmedialline 

 darker ; the ocellus large, but only the lunulate inner part pro- 

 minent. Hind wing with the antemedial line straight ; the ocellus 

 with the black ring narrow ; the postmedial lines less waved, the 

 outer one prominent. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 110 millim. 



23. Saturnia cachara, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 578 ; C. $ S. no. 1570. 



J . Differs from simla in being without the red tinge. Tore 

 wing without the basal brown patch ; the hyaline spot surrounded 

 by a circular flesh-coloured ocellus, inwardly edged by pink, out- 

 wardly by black ; the waved lines dark. Hind wing with the red 

 and black margins to the ocellus broad ; the waved postmedial 

 lines dark ; the submarginal pale fine waved. 



Hab. Cachar. Exp. 106 millim. 



Sect. III. The branches of antennae in $ much longer ; palpi 

 moderate. 



24. Saturnia stoliczkana, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 87, fig. 3 ; C. # S. 

 no. 1553. 

 Neoris shadulla, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 577; C. $ S. no. 1552. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red, the collar white : 

 metathorax fringed with white. Wings with the ground-colour 

 grey. Fore wing with the costa grey ; a brick-red basal patch ; a 

 dark antemedial line slightly angled at the median nervure ; a. 

 hyaline lunule bordered inwardly with yellow, black, and white, 

 pink and black outwardly with two waved postmedial diffused lines, 

 beyond which the colour is pale ; marginal area pale red. Hind 

 wing similar to fore wing; the white ring extending all round the 

 ocellus. 



The Cis-Himalayan form has the ground-colour of the wings 

 pinkish grey. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas ; Tarkand ; Ladak, 12,000 feet. Exp. 

 16-132 millim. 



