. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 330 N0CTUIDJ5. II. {Eligiiui). Antenna; of male almost simple. A. Hind wing yoUow with blue-black terminal band narcissus. B. Hind wing wholly black-brown orthoxantha. 6635. Eligma narcissus. Bomhyx narcissus, Pap. Exot. 1. pi. 73. ff. E, F (1775); Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 43; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Hat. p. 383. Eligma indica, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 57 (1896). Eligma javanica, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 58 (189G). Eligma pJiilijJ2Mnensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 58 (189(5). Head and thorax grey-brown with a faint
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 330 N0CTUIDJ5. II. {Eligiiui). Antenna; of male almost simple. A. Hind wing yoUow with blue-black terminal band narcissus. B. Hind wing wholly black-brown orthoxantha. 6635. Eligma narcissus. Bomhyx narcissus, Pap. Exot. 1. pi. 73. ff. E, F (1775); Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 43; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Hat. p. 383. Eligma indica, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 57 (1896). Eligma javanica, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 58 (189G). Eligma pJiilijJ2Mnensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 58 (189(5). Head and thorax grey-brown with a faint purplish tinge; palpi with black streak at sides and patch at tips ; lower part of irons with black spot; a pair of spots at base of antennae ; tegulae with pair of dorsal spots near base and spots at sides; patagia with spots near base and at tips ; mesothorax with a pair of spots, the meta- thorax with two pairs ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore legs grey- brown above, the tibiae with two pairs of black spots, the tarsi with black bands at base and near tips, the mid and hind tibiae with black spots, the tarsi brown tinged with grey ; abdomen yellow, the basal crests grey-brown tipped with black, the other segments with. Fig. 120.—Eligma narcissus, cJ. j. dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Pore wing with the costal area dark slate-brown with an olive tinge, at middle extending to discal fold and narrowing to points at base and apex, a curved while fascia below this area, its upper edge slightly angled before middle and at lower angle of cell and its lower edge somewhat diffused, the rest of wing grey-brown with a purplish tinge ; three black points at base with a curved series of three points beyond it; an oblique black streak from cosla on the upper edge of the white fascia; an antemedial black point in cell, two below it defined by white and a point above inner margin ; a black line from median. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page imag
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