120 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



When the costal spots are present, they form the commence- 

 ment of two slightly marked transverse bands. The hind-winS 

 are black, with a curved orange band, more or less divided into 

 three, and bordered with red, and another orange spot on the 

 hind margin towards the anal angle. On the under side the 

 fore-wings are largely orange, and the hind-wings have two 

 black spots towards the anal angle. The abdomen is black, 

 with the segments narrowly bordered with fulvous. 



"Larva with a few short silky hairs, dark purplish-grey 

 above, olive-green below ; with dorsal and lateral white lines ; a 

 sub-dorsal row of minute white dots and rings ; a row of black 

 dots on lateral line ; head, and second segment, and front legs, 

 black. Feeds on Bignoniacecz (Thwaites). Pupa dark reddish- 

 brown " (Moore). 



This is one of the most widely-ranging of all the tropical 

 Nocfua, being found in India, Burma, China, Ceylon, Java, to 

 North Australia, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, South 

 and Central America, and the West Indies : Hiibner has even 

 figured it as European, but probably in error. 



FAMILY GONOPTERID^:. 



GENUS SCOLIOPTERYX. 



Scoliopteryx, Germar, Prodr. Ent. p. 14 (1810); Walker, List 



Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1009 (1857). 

 Gonoptera^ Latreille, Fam. Nat. p. 476 (1825); Guenee, Spec. 



Gen. Lpid. Noct. ii. p. 405 (1852). 



The GonopteridcB are a small family remarkable for the 

 irregular outline of the fore-wings. Sco/wpteryx, which includes 

 the only European representative, has short antennae, ciliated 

 in the male ; straight, woolly, thick palpi ; a prominent frontal 

 tuft ; short, strong, legs ; and broad, angulated, and strongly 

 clentated and excavated fore- wings. The larvae are long and 



