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Remark. — As yet we have no example of this species in England, 

 but its distinguishing character is its small size ; the ocelli being 

 nearly opake ; and the hind- wing has, besides the usual submarginal 

 line, two additional undulated wider lines proceeding from the abdo- 

 minal margin, the first extending round the ocellus, and the other 

 only to the ocellus. 



Expanse of wings 4-| inches. 



6. Anther^a perrotteti, Guerin. 



Bombyx perrottetii, Guerin-Meneville, Mag. de Zool.1843, pi. 123. 

 Anthercea perrottetii, Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. 6. 

 p. 1379. 



Hab. Pondicherry (Guerin). Non vidi. 



Deep yellow ; base of costal margin of fore-wing grey, with indi- 

 stinct darker submarginal line ; ocelli small, round, red, the exterior 

 ring black, the inner whitish, with a small medial yellow spot; 

 thorax in front grey ; abdomen deep yellow. 



7. Antherm simla (Westwood). 



Saturnia simla, Westwood, Cabinet Orient. Ent. p. 41. pi. 20. f. 1 

 (1847). 



Anthercea simla, Walker, List Lep. Het. B.M. pt. 5. p. 1249 ; 

 Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. Ind. House, ii. p. 399. 



Hab. Simla (Capt. Boys) ; neighbourhood of Darjeeling. In 

 Museum, India House, London, and British Museum. 



"-Fore-wings very pale fulvous-brown, thickly irrorated with red 

 scales ; the costa and an oblique fascia, before the middle of the 

 wings, very much attenuated posteriorly, of a pale pinkish white ; 

 the basal portion of the wing reddish, terminated by a dark pink 

 line ; the pale fascia is succeeded by a very oblique streak of reddish- 

 brown, which rests on the anterior edge of the ocellus, which is rather 

 small and of a dusky colour, with a slender curved white line on its 

 inner side ; the succeeding space is thickly irrorated with red-brown 

 scales, followed by two rather indistinct slender and much waved 

 strigee, which terminate at the apex of the wing in a white angulated 

 mark and a small black patch ; the outer margin of the wing is 

 widely ashy-fulvous, followed by a narrow ashy-coloured edging ; 

 the hind-wings have the greater portion of a pink colour, traversed 

 basally by a dark pink fascia, which is recurved towards the inner 

 margin ; the middle of the wing is occupied by a large black ocellus 

 bearing a dull yellow circle with a slender white curved line, and a 

 dark pink one at its base ; between the ocellus and the exterior mar- 

 gin of the wing are two waved red-brown lines, beyond which the 

 colour is of a fulvous red, with a dull pale greyish-buff edging." 



Expanse of wings nearly 6 inches. 



8. Anthercea helferi, Moore. (Animlosa, PI. LXIV. fig. 2.) 

 Anthercea helferi, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. Ind. House, ii. p. 397 



(1858). 



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