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 . et luteo variis ;apice late nigro, macularum albarum duplici serie omato; Ima majorum ovaUum,2nda parvorum rotundatorum ;alis subtus similiter coloratis at pauUo palHdioribus. Acontia with the fore wings luteous at the base, with spots .and margins of black, the apical portion of the wingsbroadly black, with three rows of white markuigs, the first irregular, t
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 . et luteo variis ;apice late nigro, macularum albarum duplici serie omato; Ima majorum ovaUum,2nda parvorum rotundatorum ;alis subtus similiter coloratis at pauUo palHdioribus. Acontia with the fore wings luteous at the base, with spots .and margins of black, the apical portion of the wingsbroadly black, with three rows of white markuigs, the first irregular, the second formed of elongated lunules, andthe third formed of oval spots : the hind wings with the basal half varied with white, black, and luteous, the apicalborder broadly black, with a double row of white spoti, the first larger and oval-shaped, the second smaller androunded, the under side of the wings coloured and marked as above, but rather paler. E.\pansion of the fore wings 4^ inches. Inhabits Sylhet. Unique in the Collection of H. Doubleday, Esq., and commvmicated by E. Doubleday, Esq.,in honour of whom it is named. The plant represented in tlie plate is the Orchidaceous Bolbophyllum macranthum of Lindley, PLATE XXXVIII. (ORDER—ORTHOrTERA. Section—Ambilatoria. Family—rnASJiiDj;.) FIGURE I.—PUASMA (NECROSCIA) HILARE. Westw. Pliasmn lojto viride, alis (nisi area costali viriili) fuscis, tegniinibus cxtcnic flavo-marginatis ; abdomiiie i-ufo,capitc inemii coiivexo, protliorace siinplici, iiKsolhorace (protlioracc vix longiori) bitubereulato ; buincris tcg-miiium in tuberculum clevatis ; alis abdominis longitudine: ijcdibus simplicibus parum elongatis, oviductu brevisiinplici. Phasma of a fine green colour, with the wings (except tlie green costal area) brown, the wing-covers short and out-wardly margined with jcMow, the abdomen red ; head unarmed and convex, prothorax simple, mesothorax scarcelylonger than the prothorax and furnished with two tuber
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