Volume 1

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson.

Date:: 1892-1896

Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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$Head green, rufous in front; a grey band on vertex. Thorax green, the colhir outhned in grey ; a triangular grey patch on the vertex. Abdomen paler green, with oblique lines at the side; Fig. 64.—Laphiiis nerii, 5. \. paired dark green lateral blotches on penultimate, and a single dorsal blotch on ultimate segment. Tore vt^ing dark green \ ' a white patch with a black spot on it at base; some medial whitish conjoined bands, rosy towards hind margin ; an outwardly oblique band from costa to vein 4; an oblique streak from apex to A^ein 6; a triangular purplish patch from below the cell to near outer- margin. Hind wing fuscous, with a pale curved submarginal line, beyond which the area is olivaceous. Underside suffused with chestnut; a white submarginal Une to both wings ; a white speck at end of cell of hind wing. Larva green, with a bluish lateral band from 4th somite to horn, with white oval spots on it, and others above and below it; 3rd somite with a blue ocellus ; horn yellow. Hah. Europe: S.Africa; Mauritius; Aden; throughout India and Ceylon. Exp. 70-120 millim. 147. Daphnis liypothous Cram. Pap. Exot. in, p. 165; Moore, Lep. LeijL 11, pi. as, hgs. 1, 1 a (larva and pupa) ; C. ^' S. no. 113. Differs from nerii in having the head and collar uniformly dark purple-brown; thoraxandfirst two segments of abdomen dark green with a white fringe to the first; the other segments dark olive- brown with the streaks and spots as in nern. AVings similarly marked, but very much darker on both upper and uncler side • a white spot at apex of fore wing and at end of ceU of fore wing on the underside. ^$