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with a curved white line, the outer part being liver-coloured, edged 

 with a black ring. Outside the ocellus the wings bear a darker ful- 

 vous, ill-defined, very oblique fascia, followed by two slender very 

 strongly undulating dark lines ; the undulations being much stronger 

 towards the tip of the wing, where the outer one is connected with a 

 white curved line, like a U, which ends on the costa in an oval black 

 patch, and is bounded on its outside by a slender rich red-brown 

 line ; parallel and near the apical margin is an interrupted slender 

 black striga, followed by a row of submarginal oblong fulvous spots. 

 The ocellus of the hind-wing is preceded by a curved dark brown 

 line, and is followed by three slender very much undulated lines, the 

 two next the ocellus being chestnut and the outer one black ; beyond 

 the last is a broad greyish fascia, edged outwardly with a slender 

 interrupted black line, followed by a row of oblong subhmulated 

 fulvous spots. Antennae, body, and legs fulvous-yellow ; front of 

 thorax with a grey band. 

 Hah. Thibet (TFestivood). 



Genus Actias, Leach. 



Actias, Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 25 (1815) ; Macleay. 

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

 Plectropteron, Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. 45 (1847). 

 Phalcena-attacus, pt., Linnaeus. 



1, Actias selene (Macleay). 



Actias selene, Macleay, Leach's Zool. Misc. ii. p. 26. pi. 70 (1815); 

 Hutton, P. Z. S. Lond. (1856) p. 5 ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. Ind. 

 House, ii. p. 400. 



Tropcea selene, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 158; Walker, 

 List Lep. Het. B.M. pt. 6. p. 1262. 



Plectropteron selene, Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. 85. 



Plectropteron diance, Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. 45 

 (1847) ; Ann. Nat. Hist. xvii. p. 60. 



Phalcena attacus luna, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 31. f. A, B (nec 

 Drury). 



Bab. N. India ; Darjeeling ; Masuri. 



The larva of this curious species is figured by Capt. Hutton in the 

 * Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,' vol. v. pi. 5. 

 He remarks, "A specimen of this splendid Moth was brought 

 to me on the 13th April 1842, by a boy who had captured it in a 

 deep and warmly sheltered glen at Mussooree. The specimen was 

 a female, and was found clinging to the branches of a tree, or rather 

 shrub, very similar to the Tartarian honeysuckle ; it was accom- 

 panied by a male (in coitu), which effected its escape. As the spe- 

 cimen was much injured by her rough captor, I suffered her to live 

 and deposit her eggs, which she did on the evening of the. same day, 

 to the number of thirty-two, each being of the size of a large mus- 

 tard seed, and of a mottled brownish colour. During the whole of 

 the succeeding day she remained perfectly stationary, but in the 



