372 NOCTTJID^E. 



with orange segmental bands. Fore wing greyish red-brown, 

 irrorated with a few dark specks. Hind wing black-brown, with 

 curved orange band with scarlet edges from upper angle of cell to 

 near anal angle ; a band on the margin from vein 2 to anal angle. 

 Underside of fore wing black, with orange fascia ia cell and far 



Fig. 204. Hyblcea . puera, 



beyond it ; the costa and apex pale brownish with dark specks ; 

 the inner margin yellow. Hind wing pale brownish with dark 

 specks ; orange towards anal angle with two large black spots. 



Larva with a few short hairs ; dark purple-grey above, olive- 

 green below, with dorsal and lateral white lines ; a subdorsal series 

 of minute white dots and rings, a series of black dots on lateral 

 line ; head and 1st somite black. Food-plant Bignoniacecc. 



Hab. W. Indies; S. Africa; throughout India, Burma, and 

 Ceylon ; Java ; New Guinea ; Cape York. Encp. 32-40 millim. 



SECT. II. Fore wing with the outer margin excised below 

 apex and excurved at centre. 



2205. Hyblaea constellata, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 391 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 154, figs. 3, 3 a ; C. $ S. no. 2230. 



Head and thorax dark olive-green ; abdomen black, with orange 

 segmental rings and crimson at sides towards extremity. Fore 

 wing dark olive-green with dark specks ; often with two ante- 

 medial yellowish-white diffused patches ; a subapical bar, and brown 

 apical patch on costa. Hind wing black-brown, with two orange 

 spots beyond lower angle of cell and two towards anal angle. 

 Underside of fore wing black, with the costa and inner margin 

 orange ; the base of cell, a band at end of it, and one beyond it 

 orange. Hind wing orange, suffused with crimson and with 

 numerous black spots ; a black spot at anal angle. 



Hab. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Malacca ; 

 Borneo ; Australia. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



2206. Hyblsea hypocyanea, Swirih. MS. 



Differs from constellata in the abdomen being without crim- 

 son. Fore wing uniform dark brown speckled with black. Hind 

 wing with the orange spots obsolescent except the one beyond 

 cell. Underside of fore wing with the costa very slightly red- 



