THE PROSERPINA MOTH. 

 Phalcena Proserpina. 



PLATE XXVI. 



Phalaena Proserpina, Shaw's Naturalises Miscellany, pi. 998. 



THE whole wings of this interesting phalaena are" 

 of a deep black, which changes into a beautiful 

 glossy blue by the reflection of light; both the 

 upper and lower wings are provided with a very 

 broad sesquialterous waved band of pale straw 

 yellow, which is greatly broader on the lower ones ; 

 both sets of wings have a crescent-shaped black 

 spot, with an ochre coloured centre, situated in 

 the bands ; those of the superior wings are placed 

 near the top of the upper inner margins, and those 

 of the lower wings towards the interior margins ; 

 the entire exterior margins of the wings, are sup- 

 plied with a fine fringe ; the body is the same colour 

 as the wings, with four transverse tufts of a colour 

 between scarlet and orange. The head and upper 

 part of the thorax is pale straw yellow j the an- 

 tennae are fringed, and of an ochre yellow. 



The caterpillar is of a pale gamboge yellow, with 

 a crimson head and tail, and each side of the upper 

 surface furnished with an undulated, longitudinal, 



