130 THE ABBINDY SILKWORM MOTH. 



In other respects the following description applies, 

 to both : 



" Head roundish; eyes large, bright, dark brown 

 antennae pectinated, light brown; those of the malt 

 narrower ; length equal to that of the head anc 

 thorax ; palpi four, as in P. paphia ; mouth none 

 thorax oval, completely covered with long, fine 

 brownish hair, with a band of white down round 

 the neck; abdomen oblong (in the female greatly 

 larger), clothed with much fine white down above., 

 and with alternate triangular spots of white anc 

 brown on the sides and belly; legs six; wings 

 incumbent, expanded when at rest; superior, 

 or first pair, falcated ; prevailing colour brownish 

 gray; a subdiaphanous, curved, white, and rust 

 coloured band crosses from the centre of the anterio| 

 (sector) margin to near the middle of the inner slij 

 or edge ; from nearly the middle of which, on th^ 

 inside, another short white bar runs to the posterior 

 edge of the shoulder, and one to the inner part oi 

 the sector edge, forming a dark angular spot in the 

 centre of the junction of these two small bars witl] 

 the first mentioned long one. Adjoining to the fore 

 part of this angular spot is a semilunar, somewh^ 

 pellucid speck, with a yellowish centre ; near the 

 rounded falcated apex of each wing is a small darl 

 coloured eye, with the anterior margin thereoj 

 white ; their posterior margins are entire, and con 

 cave towards the point ; with a lighter coloured 



