330 NOCLUID. 
Secr. IT. (Ligma). Antenne of male almost simple. 
A. Hind wing yellow with b)ue-black terminal band ......... narcissus. 
B. Hind wing wholly black-brown ..............ssceceeseoseerenses orthoxantha, 
6635. Eligma narcissus. 
Bombyx narcissus, Cram. Pap. Exot. 1. pl. 73. ff. E, F (1775); Hmpsn. 
Moths Ind. ii. p. 43; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 383. 
Eligma indica, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 57 (1896). 
Eligma javanica, Roths. Nov, Zool. iii. p. 58 (1896). 
Eligma philippinensis, Roths. Noy. Zool. iii. p. 58 (1896). 
Head and thorax grey-brown with a faint purplish tinge; palpi 
with black streak at sides and patch at tips; lower part of frons 
with black spot; a pair of spots at base of antenne; tegule with 
pair of dorsal spots near base and spots at sides; patagia with spots 
near base and at tips; mesothorax with a pair of spots, the meta- 
thorax with two pairs; pectus and legs yellow, the fore legs grey- 
brown above, the tibie with two pairs of black spots, the tarsi with 
black bands at base and near tips, the mid and hind tibie with 
black spots, the tarsi brown tinged with grey ; abdomen yellow, the 
basal crests grey-brown tipped with black, the other segments with 
oS 
ee 
A 
ra 
Ly 
Fig. 120.—Eligma nareissus, 3. }. 
dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Fore wing with the costal 
area dark slate-brown with an olive tinge, at middle extending to 
discal fold and narrowing to points at base and apex, a curved 
white fascia below this area, its upper edge slightly angled before 
middle and at lower angle of cell and its lower edge somewhat 
diffused, the rest of wing grey-brown with a purplish tinge ; three 
black points at base with a curved series of three points beyond it ; 
an oblique black streak from costa on the upper edge of the white 
fascia; an antemedial black point in cell, two below it defined by 
white and a point above inner margin ; a black line from median 
