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" It is right to add, upon the authority of Mons. St.-Hilaire, that 

 the interesting acquisition is mainly owing to the assistance given by 

 Mons. Verrolles, Bishop of Colomby, and Vicar-Apostolic in Mant- 

 chouria, to M. de Montigny, the French Consul at Shanghae." (From 

 Journ. Agri.-Hort. Soc. India, 1856, ix. p. 63, and extracted from 

 ' Gardener's Chronicle,' 30th June, 1855.) 



Genus Loepa, Moore. 



Anthercea (Groups II. and III., pt.), Walker, List Lep. Het, 

 B.M. pt. 5. p. 1250. 



Loepa, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. Ind. House, ii. p. 399 (1858). 



Antennee bipectinated. Palpi very short. Proboscis obsolete, 

 Abdomen not very stout. Wings moderately long and broad, each 

 with an ocellus, whose disc is thinly clothed with hairs ; fore- wing 

 convex towards the tip, which, in the male, is somewhat falcated ; 

 hind-wing with the angles rounded. 



1. Loepa katinka (Westwood). 



Saturnia katinka, Westwood, Cabinet Orient. Exit. p. 25. pi. 12, 

 f. 2 (1847). 



Anthercea katinka, Walker, List Lep. Het. B.M. pt. 5. p. 125L 

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

 Hab. Assam ; Silhet ; Java. 



Yellow; costa of fore-wings grey. Each wing with a fulvous- 

 brown ocellus, the middle of which is purplish, and has a curved 

 white streak which is bordered by a slender black line ; across the 

 middle of the wing is an indistinct, waved and bidentated line, 

 beyond which is a double blackish waved line terminating near the 

 apex in a black demi-oval spot, followed by a fulvous apical patch 

 containing two white lunules ; near the exterior margin of the wings 

 is a submarginal row of slender white lunules, and near the base of 

 each wing is a slender rosy zigzag streak. 



Expanse 2f to 3f inches. 



The larva and cocoon of Loepa katinka are figured in Catah 

 Lep. Mus. India House, vol. ii., plate 20. fig. 1, copied from the ori- 

 ginal drawing made by Dr. Horsfield in Java, where the larva " feeds 



on the Galing (Cissus, sp. ) and the Girang {Leea, sp. ), 



Abundant during December, January and February." 



2. Loepa thibeta (Westwood). 



Saturnia thibeta, Westwood, P. Z. S. (1853) p. 166 ; Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. 2nd ser. xv. p. 302 (1855).* 



Anthercea thibeta, Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. 5. 

 p. 1250. 



Fore-wings yellow, much varied with grey scales, especially at the 

 base and beyond the middle ; near the base is a transverse oblique 

 slender red striga. In the middle of all the wings is a moderate- 

 sized oval ocellus, with a black central dot, marked on its inner edge 



