. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CANNA. 21 black points ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with a few black scales except towards base, the subterminal patch emittino- teeth on the veins to termen, a terminal series of small black lunules from apex to vein 2. 5 . Hind wing- with the brown subterminal band entire, narrow- ing to tornus. Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, 2 c?; W. China, Moupin {KricJieldorf\ 1 S ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanjjur {O. Toi:ng), 1 $ , Simla (Hen-ford), 1 c?, Murree (Harford), 1 ($, Dharmsala (Hoclcing), 4 2 type sphiidens ; Sikhim.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CANNA. 21 black points ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with a few black scales except towards base, the subterminal patch emittino- teeth on the veins to termen, a terminal series of small black lunules from apex to vein 2. 5 . Hind wing- with the brown subterminal band entire, narrow- ing to tornus. Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, 2 c?; W. China, Moupin {KricJieldorf\ 1 S ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanjjur {O. Toi:ng), 1 $ , Simla (Hen-ford), 1 c?, Murree (Harford), 1 ($, Dharmsala (Hoclcing), 4 2 type sphiidens ; Sikhim. ^.17:). 32-40 millim. 3594. Canna pulchripicta. Canora pulchripicta, Wlk. sxxiii. 790 (ISfif)); Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 61, pi. 6. f. 10 ; limpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 293. S. Head and tegulse bright apple-green, the latter edged with white ; palpi red-brown; frons with red-brown marks at sides ; antennae red-brown ; thorax bright rufous, blackish behind, the pro- thorax with white patch ; pectus whitish; legs rufous, with green patches on fore tibiae ; abdomen whitish, tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright emerald-green; a rufous band from base of costa ex- tending as a fascia along inner margin to beyond middle, where it. Fig. 2.— Canna pulchripicta, (^. \. ends in a point; a medial rufous band very oblique from costa to vein 2, then bent inwards to the fascia on inner margin, these rufous markings defined by fine white lines ; a faint oblique darker green fascia from costa just before apex to the angle of medial band ; a terminal white band from apex to vein 5, its lower part tinged with rufous ; a rufous lunule slightly edged v/ith white on termen in sub- median interspace ; cilia rufous, white at apex. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with brown from apex to vein 4, some slight black points on termen towards apex; cilia tinged with rufous ; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous. Hah. Sikhim (Eussell, Atkinson, Dudgeon), 8 cJ type. Exj). 34- 36 mil
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