_Upper Side._ Antennæ small, filiform. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark hair-coloured. Wings dark hair-coloured. Anterior having a narrow white line crossing them, about the middle, from the anterior to the posterior edges; between this and the tips is another short white streak placed on the anterior edge. Posterior wings immaculate. Cilia ash-coloured. _Under Side._ Palpi, breast, legs, and abdomen russet-coloured. Wings also russet-coloured, with some faint marks, occasioned by the white lines on the upper side appearing through. Margins of the wings entire. NEMEOPHILA FIGURATA. Plate XII. fig. 4. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Arctiidæ, _Steph._ GENUS. NEMEOPHILA, _Stephens_. Eyprepia p. _Ochs_. Chelonia p. _God._ NEMEOPHILA FIGURATA. Alis anticis nigris, fasciâ longitudinali duabus alteris convergentibus connexâ, albis, posticis sanguineis margine maculâque externâ nigris. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 6 lin.) SYN. Phalæna (Bombyx) figurata, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Pal. Bauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Lep. pl._ 24. _f._ 4. [female]. (Alis posticis nigris puncto rufo.) HABITAT: Virginia. _Upper Side._ Antennæ dark brown and pectinated. Thorax cream-coloured and black. Abdomen black, the sides red. Anterior wings black; having a cream-coloured line running from the shoulders, {24}parallel to and at a small distance from the posterior edge, towards the lower corner; stopping at about one-third from the external edge, from whence near the end of this line arises two others, which run almost to the anterior edges. Posterior wings red in the middle; surrounded, except on the abdominal edges, by a broad black margin. _Under Side._ Palpi hairy and black. Breast, legs, and abdomen black. Wings as on the other side; but the colours are not so bright and distinct. Margins of the wings entire. PLATE XIII. [Illustration] SATURNIA EPIMETHEA. Plate XIII. fig. 1. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Bombycidæ, _Steph._ GENUS. SATURNIA, _Schrank._ Attacus, _Germar._ Phalæna (Attacus), _Linn._ SATURNIA EPIMETHEA. Alis subfuscis strigâ communi subapicali albâ, posticis acutè angulatis, ocello disci fulvo margine nigro. SYN. Phalæna (Attacus) Epimethea, _Drury_, _Append. vol._ 2. _Fab. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 414. _No._ 23. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2404. 472. _Cramer_, _Ins._ 15. _tab._ 176. _f._ A. _Oliv. Enc. Méth._ 5. 29. 21. HABITAT: New Calabar, Coast of Guinea.