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by a red ring ; around this runs a broad incomplete circular line, 

 extending from above the ocellus and terminating on the abdominal 

 margin ; an exterior submarginal dark dentated line. 



Expanse A\ inches. 



Hab. Silhet. 



Genus Anther^a, Hubner. 



Anthercea, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 152 (1816). 

 Anthercea (part), Walker, List Lep. Het. B.M. pt. 5 (1855). 

 Phalcena-attacus, pt., Linnaeus. 



Antennae broadly bipectinated in male, less so in female. Pro- 

 boscis invisible or obsolete. Abdomen stout, very thick in female. 

 Wings ample, each with a rounded ocellus, whose disc is partly or 

 wholly vitreous, and is traversed by the discal veinlet ; fore-wing 

 convex along the costa ; tip falcated in the male, more rounded in 

 the female. 



1. Anther^a paphia (Linnaeus). 



Phalcena-attacus paphia, Linnaeus, S. N. i. 2. p. 809 (1767) ; 

 Mus. Lud. Ulr. p, 369 ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pp. 78, 81, 82. 

 pi. 146. f. a 2 , ph 147. f. a, b 2 > pi- 148. f . a <$ . 



Bombyx paphia, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 557; Spec. Ins. ii. p. 168; 

 Mant. Ins. ii. p. 108 ; Ent. Syst. hi. 1. p. 409 ; Sykes, Trans. Asiatic 

 Soc. London, hi. p. 541 (with a plate). 



Phalcena paphia, Roxburgh, Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 33 (1804). 



Anthercea paphia, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 152 (1816) ; 

 Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. Ind. House, ii. p. 385. 



Saturnia paphia, Heifer, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vi. p. 42 (1837). 



Phalcena-attacus mylitta, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. ii. p. 8. pi. 5. f. 1, 

 App. p. (1773). 



Bombyx mylitta, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 558. 



Attacus mylitta, Blanchard, in Jacquernont's Voy. dans l'lnde, 

 Zool. Ins. p. 24. pi. 3. 



Anthercea mylitta, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 152 ; Walker, 

 List Lep. Het. B.M. pt. 5. p. 1247. 



Saturnia mylitta, Westwood, edit. Drury's Ins. ii. p. 10. pi. 5. 

 f. 1 ; Royle, Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibit, pt. 3. p. 216 ; 

 Gue'rin-Meneville, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (1855), p. 297. pi. 6. f. 2. 



Tesser; Folliculus et Eruca bengalensis, vocatur Tesser, Ruiri- 

 phius, Herb. Amb. hi. p. 115 (1750). 



Tusseh Silkworm Moth, Hind., Heifer. 



Bughy Silkworm Moth of the Burbhoom Hills, Roxburgh. 



Kolisurra Silkworm Moth of the Mahrattas, Col. Sykes. ' 



Munga Silkworm Moth of the Meches, B. H. Hodgson. 



Kontkuri Mooga of the Assamese, Hugon*. 



Hab. Difficult to determine; but specimens have been received 

 from N.E. India, Silhet, Assam, S. India, Ceylon, and Java. 



The transformations of the Tusseh Silkworm Moth are figured in 



* J. A. S. Beng. vi. p. 32. 



