. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. EMPYEEUMA. LEUCOPLEURA. 423 937. Empyreuma lichas. Fabr. Spec. las. ii. App. p. 505 (1781). Splmix sanguinosa, Martyn, Psyche, pi, 26. ff. 18, 19 (ined.); Kirbv, Cat Het. p. 121. ^ Head and thorax black-brown ; antennae bluish, the tips orange : teguloe, shoulders, patagia, and coxse with small white spots ; abdomen metallic greenish, with dorsal white spots on first two. Fig. 223.—Eni-pyrcuma lichas, (^. \. segments, two lateral series, and two ventral
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. EMPYEEUMA. LEUCOPLEURA. 423 937. Empyreuma lichas. Fabr. Spec. las. ii. App. p. 505 (1781). Splmix sanguinosa, Martyn, Psyche, pi, 26. ff. 18, 19 (ined.); Kirbv, Cat Het. p. 121. ^ Head and thorax black-brown ; antennae bluish, the tips orange : teguloe, shoulders, patagia, and coxse with small white spots ; abdomen metallic greenish, with dorsal white spots on first two. Fig. 223.—Eni-pyrcuma lichas, (^. \. segments, two lateral series, and two ventral white spots on first segment. Fore wing crimson-red, suffused with brownish except the costal fascia and base of inner margin. Hind wing crimson, the cilia blackish. Hah. JikiTi {Tiveedie); Cuba; Honduras. ^-^iS miViim. 938. Empyreuma pugione. Sphinx pug ion e, Linu. Syst. Nat. i. 2. p. 807 (17()7); Kirby, Cat. Het. Sphinx lichas, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 45. B (1775). Head and thorax blue-black; antennae fulvous at tips ; abdomen dull metallic bluish, with subdorsal white patches on 3rd and 4th segments. Fore wing crimson suffused with black, the veins and terminal area black Avith a slight bluish gloss. Hind wing crimson, with terminal black band. Hab. Jamaica (Oosse). Exp. 50 millim. Egg. Pale yellow, spherical with flattened base, with fine pen- tagonal reticulations. Larva pale yellow-brown, with subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of small fuscous-edged white spots; the somites bearing subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral warts with radiating hairs, the 2nd to terminal somites also with paired dorsal warts and small warts above the sublateral series ; the 2nd somite with long forwardly- directed hair on subdorsal warts, the subterminal segment with backwardly directed hair. Food-plant., Oleander. Genus LEUCOPLEURA, nov. Type, L. cucadma. Proboscis well developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to vertex of head, the 3rd joint short and porrect; antenni^ bipectin
Size: 2259px × 1106px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherlondonbritishmuseu
