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Hampson to the beautiful Moth described below, which has a 

 very stout body, clothed, as is also the inner margin in the 

 male, with long hair.; and the abdomen is also heavily tufted 

 at the extremity. The markings of the moth are so conspicuous 

 that it cannot be mistaken for any other species. 



LAGOPTERA JUNO. 

 (Plate CXLII., Fig. 2.) 



Nociua juno, Dalman, Anal. Ent. p. 52 (1823). 



Ophideres elegans, Van der Hoeven, Nat. Tijdschr. vii. p. 280, 



pi. 5, figs. 6 a, b (1840). 

 Lagoptera multicolor, Guene'e, Spec. Ge'n. Le*pid. Noct. iii. 



p. 226 (1852). 

 Lagoptera elegans, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 1352, no. 4 (1858). 

 Lagoptera juno, Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 508, 



fig. 281 (1894). 



This Moth is a native of China and Japan, Java and 

 Northern India. It expands from about three inches to three 

 inches and a quarter. 



The fore-wings are reddish-brown, with four fine transverse 

 lines ; the three inner lines are brown, and the fourth, which is 

 submarginal, curving from the apex to the inner margin near 

 the hinder angle, is pale yellow. The reniform stigma is 

 black, bordered with yellowish, and is incomplete. There are 

 some black dots marked with white on the hind margin. 

 The hind-wings are pale red on the marginal area and grey at 

 the base, with two broad black median bands, separated from 

 one another by a much narrower pale bluish band. The 

 abdomen is red, and the thorax is of the same colour as the 

 fore-wings. 



