BBAHMvEIILE. 



Larva. The 2nd and 3rd somites swollen and armed with a pnir 

 of forwardly projecting lateral spines, which turn into warts at 

 the last moult. 



Pupa naked. 



32. Brahmaea wallichii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 39 ; C. # S. no. 1579. 

 Brahmsea conchifera, Eutl. A. M. N. H. (5) v, 1880, p. 188; 111. 



Het. v, pi. 95, tigs. 3, 4 ; C. $ S. no. 1577. 

 Bombva spectabilis, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 44-1. 

 Brahmgea rufescens, Butl. A. M. N. II. (5) vi, 1880, p. 62 ; C. $ S, 



no. 1578. 



c? . Head black ; antennae brown, with a brown band between 

 their bases ; thorax brown, with three pairs of black lines ; collar 

 with a pair of black spots ; abdomen brown, with paired square 



Fig. 15. Brahmcea wallichii, <3 . ^. 



segmeutal black spots : underside of head and thorax black ; of abdo- 

 men brown, with black lines. Fore wing pale olive-brown; seven 

 waved black lines before the middle ; two black medial lines 

 enclosing an irregular space below the costa, then approaching 

 each other at vein 2, and enclosing a round space above inner 

 margin ; in these spaces the veins are marked with white and black ; 

 eight black lunulate lines on the outer area between vein 5 and the 

 inner margin, some of them in the form of "brackets/' the outer 

 series forming ring-marks ; apical area witli veins 6, 7, 8 marked 

 with white lunules ; a black subapical patch, with some fine black 

 lunules from it to vein 6 ; a yellow streak above vein 5. Hind 

 wing: the basal area deep black, with some brown streaks towards 

 inner margin ; outer area yellowish, shading to olive-brown ; nine 

 waved lines, expanding into blue-black marks on the veins, with 

 white spots between them ; a submarginal broken line. Underside 



