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SATURNIA MYLITTA. 
PLATE XIV. Fig. 2. 
Phal. (Attaeus) Mylitta, Drury's Exot. Ins., vol. i. pi. 5, fig. 1. 
— Plial. Papliia, Cramer, Pap. Exot., pi. 14G, fig. A. ; pi. 147, 
fig. A. B. ; pi. 148, fig. A. — Bombyx Mylitta, Encyc. Meth. 
This species, like several others of its congeners, i3 
liable to considerable variation both in size and 
colour. The expansion of the wings is usually be- 
tween five and six inches, although individuals 
occur exceeding these dimensions (the figure on 
the plate above referred to is somewhat diminished). 
The colour of the wings is yellowish-brown, varying 
a good deal in tint ; each wing with a round tran- 
sparent ocellus in the centre, those on the fore wings 
largest, surrounded first by a yellow ring, then a 
greyish band, and lastly a black line, the transpa- 
rent pupil divided by a fine dark line; the ante- 
rior margin of the superior wings is grey, the base 
with two abbreviated light-coloured bands, and a 
narrow dark streak, commencing near the apical 
angle, runs across all the wings parallel with the 
exterior margin and not far from it ; a faint arched 
black streak is observable over each of the eyes on 
the under wings. The thorax and abdomen are 
