KUCHROMIA. 297 



Subsp. 1. spknclcns, Biitl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188S, p. 113, pi. 4. f. 4 ; Kirby, 

 Oat. Het. p. 117. 



Hind wiug with the patch below the cell extending to origin of 

 vein 2. 



Hab. Camekoons, type; Old Calabar (Cochhurn, Steadley). 



Goo. Euchromia horsfieldi. 



Thalanna hvrsficldi, Mooi-e, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 200, pi. 00. f. l^ ; id. Lep. 

 E. I. C. p. 328, pi. xiv, IF. 9, 9a ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 118. 



(^ . Black ; vertex of head and thorax largely suffused with 

 metallic blue ; frons, a line behind eyes, spots on shoulders, sides of 

 thorax, and coxoe white ; abdomen with bands on 1st and -ith seg- 

 ments varying from pale orange to white, the other segments with 

 metallic blue bands. Fore wing with metallic blue spots at base of 

 costa and on discocellulars ; a wedge-shaped orange-yellow patch in 

 cell; an elongate patch below the cell often indented by a small or 

 large spot at middle of its lower edge, or divided into two patches ; 

 a series of four elongate spots beyond the cell between veins 3 

 and 7. Hind wing with orange patch in base of cell ; patches below 

 the cell and on inner area which are usually white, but sometimes 

 partly orange ; a large orange patch beyond the cell between veins 

 2 and 7. 



5 without white on coxtic. 



Hah. Borneo {Hose) ; Java (Iforsjleld), type ; Sambawa ; Bali 

 (DoJierty). Exp. 42-44 millim. 



Larva reddish ochreous, with long paired black dorsal tufts on 

 2nd and 3rd somites ; a lateral series of tubercles bearing black 

 hairs; somites 4-11 with dorsal ridges of black and blue hair 

 extending to above lateral tubercles ; the last two somites with 

 dorsal setiferous tubercles. Food-plant Dioscorea. 



Cocoon thickly clothed with black and blue hairs. 



056, Euchromia polymena. 



Sphinx poly mena, Linn. Sy.st. Nat. i. p. 494 (1858) ; Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 

 pi. 13. D; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 39, pi. 94. ff. (3,6a; Hmpsu. Motlis 

 Ind. i. p. 227 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 118. 



cj" . Black; white patches on frons, shoulders, sides of thorax, 

 and coxae ; vertex of head and thorax suffused with metallic blue ; 



Fig. 137. — Euchromia polyjucna, (^ . \. (From Moths Ind., vol. i.) 



tegula) crimson ; abdomen wifh crimson bands on 4th and 5th seg- 

 ments ; slight blue bands on 2nd and 3rd segments, becoming white 



