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Show 144 PROF. 3. O. WESTWOOD ON NEW EXOTIC MOTHS. [Jatt. 4, {fere angulum apicalem anticarum attingente), margine alarum pone hancfasciam magisfusco-vinoso; antennis rufescentibus, pectinatis; collo albo; corpore alis concolori. Affinis S. mylittae. Expans. alarum anticarum unc. 6^. Hab. in Japonia. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxoniae. SATURNIA IOLE, sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) S. alis anticis subfalcatis, apice rotundato, posticis elongatis omnibus basi cinereo-fusca ; anticis fascia lata mediana, lunula media angusta curvata alba, medio vitreo, spatio pone fasciam magis rufescente, ocello ovali prope (da? parvo nigro, albo anguste cincto, strigaque tenui ab apice fere ad angulum posticum extensa cum margine ipso paral-lela; alis posticis inter basin et medium lunula alba, postice fasciam latam pallidam dilatata, ad angulum analem extensa, ocelloque lunato albo, linea media vitrea, margineque luteo, in margine supero fascia? insidente; alis posticis fasciam pallide fuscis, striga pallidiore marginiparallela fuscum, collari albo, abdomine albido, segmentis in media fuscis; antennis subfulvis, satis late bipectinatis. Expans. alarum unc. A\. Hub. iii Assama Indiae orientalis. In Musaoo Hopeiano Oxoniae. SATURNIA (EUD^MONIA) ARGIPHONTES. (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) Eudcemonia argiphontes, Maassen in litt., Kirbv, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 20. Affinis Bombyci brachyurae, Drury (argus, Stoll), at major alisque posticis in mare multo longioribus. Faunicolor, alis anticis fusca valde obliqua prope basin, fere ad medium costce extensa, alteraque fere recta inter medium et apicem per alas posticas marginem analem extensa, spatio pone hanc fasciam in anticis albo, cervino extus pallide tincto; spatio inter medium fasciam guttis 5 vel 6 favisfusco cinctis, medio cujusque vitreo; cauda alarum posticarum inter medium et partem dila-tatam albida; alis anticis foemina? medio magis fulvescentibus, fasciis duabus purpurea -fuscis, externa extus anguste marginata, colore albo ad costam parum dilatato ; alis posticis foemina cauda tantum dimidium ejus in mare a?quante, et media ejusdem magis fusca inst metis. Expans. alarum unc. 3-3L Long. caud. alar. post. S unc. 5|, $ unc. 2f. Hab. Sierra Leone Africae tropicalis. In Mus. reg. Dubliuensi. The preceding description of both sexes and accompanying figure of the male of this extraordinary species were made from the pair of typical specimens in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, kindly submitted to me by Mr. \V. F. Kirby in 1877, since which period that gentleman has published the following description of the species in the ' Transactions of the Entomological Society of London':- "Allied to brachyura, Drury {Argus, Stoll). Brown, $ paler. Wings shaped as in braychura, and slightly scalloped as in that species |