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Show 1866.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS BRAHMcEA. 121 Note.-In the markings of the front wings this species seems more nearly allied to B. lucina (Drury). The above insect must, I think, be quite distinct from B. certhia ; for, although the figures in Petiver's book are undoubtedly quite out of date, it seems unlikely that any artist in making a representation of a species would go so far out of his way, to make the likeness a bad one, as to neglect characters in the hind which he had not overlooked in the front wings, as, for instance, we find in the figure by Petiver that the submarginal spots, common to the species of this genus, are represented in the front, but not in the hind wings. The numerous other differences will be at once seen by reference to the figures ; and I think, taken in conjunction with the locality in which this species was captured, they fully justify its separation as a species. Section 2. 4. BRAHM/EA LUCINA. (Fig. 4.) Phalarna attacus lucina, Drury, Illustr. iii. pi. 34. f. 1. Bombyx lucina, Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins. v. p. 31. 27. Saturnia lucina, Westw. ed. Drury, iii. p. 45, pi. 34. f. 1 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1849) p. 56. n. 25. Brahmara llucina. Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. vi. p. 1316. n. 2. Hab. Sierra Leone. Fig. 4. Brahmaea lucina. |
