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PLATE XXIV.
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SECTION—NOCTURNA.
F I G U R E 1.
SATURNIA LARISSA. WESTW.
FAMILY—BOMBYCID/E. LEACII.)
Satin-nia alis supra fulvis disco anticamm in medio saturariori, strigis tribus griseo-brunneis valde undatis singulaque
ocello griseo, antioe rufo-brunneo, medio -vitreo ornata, costa anticarum grisea, apicibusque luteo-cinereis,
eorpore fulvo-rufescenti tliorace antice griseo.
Satm'nia with the upper surface of the wiugs fulvous, the middle of the disc of the anterior pair darker, aud
traversed by thi'ee very waved greyish-purple-browu streaks, each wing being marked with a greyish ocellus, M'hich
; is anteriorly browiiish-red, and in the middle glassy ; the costa of the fore wings gray, and the outer margins broadly
V luteous-ashy ; the body fulvous red, with the front of the thorax grey.
^ Expansion of the fore \vings inches.
Inhabits the Island of Java. In the Collection of M, Dalen,
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O B S E R V A T I O N S . — I am indebted for drawüigs of the two beautiful species of Saturnia, represented
j. in the present Plate, to M. Dalen, of Rotterdam, the possessor of a fine Collection of exotic LepidopÍ
tera, the drawings themselves harág been executed by Colonel Ver Huell, an excellent Lepidopterist
of liolland.
The present species is remarkable for the very sickle-shaped fore wings, the middle of which is
1 traversed by three darker very waved strigaj, varying in intensity of colour, being darkest and ricli
pnrphsh-brown in the neighbourhood of the ocellus, w-hich are circular in the fore wings, and connected
with the costa by a short Mvous twig, edged with black, which extends round the outer half of the
ocellus, within which is a fulvous line, which is replaced towards the base by a very slender white one;
the centre is occupied by a vitreous space, edged with a fine yellowish line, traversed also by a slender
one of the same coloiu-; towards the base of the wing is also a pale semicircular streak, and beyond
this a pale patch next the costa; towards the apex of the wing is a purplish-ljlack streak, much irrorated
with white scales; the outer margin of tlie wing is broadly ashy clay-coloured, the fringe itself
fulvous. The hind wings are similarly coloured, but the waved streaks ai-e paler, and between the
ocellus (which is oval, but coloured as in the fore brings) and the base of the wing is a very obscure duskv
fascia; the thorax and base of the wings are much clothed with reddish hairs, the abdominal margin
of the hind wings with grey ones. The specimen is a male.
F I G U R E 2.
SATURNIA PYRETORUM. BOISDUVAL, MSS.
Saturnia alis rotundatis albo-lacteis singula oceUo nictitanti lunula tenui vitrea inclusa ornata ; strigis duabus
posticis vakle dontatis fascifi latà sub-apicaU fusca connexis, limboque postico fusco ; anticis basi fasciaque fuseis.
Saturnia with the wiugs rounded aud milky-white, each with a moderate-sized oval black ocellus, having a slender
ova) fulvous line surmounted by a slender pale-blue liuuile, and with a curved ritreous central streak ; beyond the