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 . k brunneous, underside brunneous, with the middle of the fore wings paler, some-what straw-coloured. Expansion of the fore vimgs of the female rather more than U inches. Inhabits Ceylon. In the Collection of Dr. Templeton. Colonel Hearsey has brought home a male specimen of this genus from Central India, which I con-sider as the male of L. graciosa, which diff
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 . k brunneous, underside brunneous, with the middle of the fore wings paler, some-what straw-coloured. Expansion of the fore vimgs of the female rather more than U inches. Inhabits Ceylon. In the Collection of Dr. Templeton. Colonel Hearsey has brought home a male specimen of this genus from Central India, which I con-sider as the male of L. graciosa, which differs only from the female in having the upper side of thehead and thorax entirely pale green, and the hind wings pale buff, with the outer margin ratherdarker. Dr. Templeton has also sent another species from Ceylon, closely allied to the two preceding, whichmay be thus characterised. Limacodes lata, Westw., capite et prothorace supra fasciaque tenui sub-mediana alarum anticarumparum undata viridibus, harum basi apiceque late brunneis, macula parva alba versus basin alarum,alis posticis basi stramineis apiceque obscuriori. Exp. alar, antic. 1 unc. The plant represented in this plate is the Vanda teretifolia of Lindley, from PLATE XXV. (ORDER—ORTHOPTERA. Section—Saltatouia. Family—, Leach. Lath.) FIGURE LACANTHODIS IJIPERIALIS White, (Ann. Nat. Hist. Vol. xviii., pi. 1, fig. 1.) Acanthodis nigricans, pronoto riridi-flavescente ; tegminibus costa brunnua nigro albotjue maculata, parte posticanigi-icanti maculis tiibus magnis (raargine iuterno connexis) viridibus; alls uigris venis transversis viridi-albis,pedibus anticis nigricantibus, posticis viridibus. Acanthodis with the body black, the prouotum yellowish green, the costa of tlie tegmina rich brunneous with blackand white spots, the hind part blackish with three large beautiful gieen spots which are united together on the innermargin ; the wings black with the transverse veins of greenish whi
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