The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . hich terminates above the ocellusnearest the tail. A rather broad pale striga and a very narrow submarginal pale line run close tothe apical margin of all the wings, preceded in the hind wings by the two ocelli, the innermost beingthe largest, ha\ang a white dot in the centre and a slender black circular outline. The tail is broad,with two black dots edged abo
The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . hich terminates above the ocellusnearest the tail. A rather broad pale striga and a very narrow submarginal pale line run close tothe apical margin of all the wings, preceded in the hind wings by the two ocelli, the innermost beingthe largest, ha\ang a white dot in the centre and a slender black circular outline. The tail is broad,with two black dots edged above with white. The body is fulvous-brown. The under side of the abdomenis furnished with long setae, and the anal vein of the hind wings has a fascicle of short hairs oppositethe extremity of the abdomen : the body and antennse are fulvous-brown. FIGURE outhne figure represents the fore wing of Zeuxidia Luxerii, mentioned above, in order to showthe very curious ai-rangement of the veins, whereby it will be seen that the folding of the wing marked *(which in Amathusia follows the long branch marked f) is here converted into a fourth branch of thegreat median vein by means of a distinct twig J which connects it therewith. za. PLATE XX. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Nocturna. Family—Bombyctdj!, Leach.) FIGURE SIMLA. Westw. Satumia alis anticis carneo-fulvis, costa fasciaque obliqua ante medium, postice attenuata sub albidis, striga puniceaprope basin alteraque obliqua medians magis fusca, oeello obscuriori mediana margiueque postico late griseo-fulvo ;posticis basi pallida puniceis, fascia tenui ante alterisque duabus undatis pone medium obscurioribus, oeello magnonigro fulvo et albo vario, interjecto, margine postico giiseo-fulvescenti. Saturnia with the fore \vings of a very pale fulvous bro\vn, thickly irrorated with reddish scales ; the costa andan oblique fascia, before the middle of the wings, very much attenuated behind, of a very pale pinlcish-white ;
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