CANXA. 19 



Genus CANNA. 



Type. 

 Canna, Wlk. xxxm. 790 (1865) pulchripicta. 



Proboscis fully deT eloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of fronsand moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna laminate; thorax clothed with elongate scales, the 

 prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with paired tufts of scales, the meta- 

 thorax with spreading crest ; the patagia with upturned tufts of scales at 

 exti-emity ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, 

 the crest on 4th segment large. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, 

 the termen excurved at middle and excised below apex and towards tornus 

 which is somewhat lobed ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



A. Abdomen with the crest on 4th segment formed of long 



black scales. 



a. Fore wing with the medial band green tinged w-ith 



fuscous ^jra«»arzff . 



b. Fore wing with the medial band red-brown mcdachitis. 



B. Abdomen with the crest on 4th segment formed of ochreous 



hair indchrificia. 



3592. Canna prasinaria. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 18.) 



Diphthera praainaria, Wlk. xxxii. 615 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths lud ii. 

 p. 294. 



Head and thorax bright emerald-green ; palpi black with some 

 white in front and at extremity of 2nd joint ; fions white below and 

 with lateral black bars ; some black behind the ej-es ; antennge 

 blackish ; tips of tegulye and outer edge of patagia with some white, 

 the patagia tipped with black ; a pair of black-tipped tufts of hair 

 from mesothorax ; pectus and legs with some white, the tibi^ 

 marked with black, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen 

 white, with diffused dorsal black bands, the crest on 4th seg- 

 ment very large and black, the ventral surface black at base, white 

 at extremity. Fore wing bright emerald-green ; subbasal line 

 black, defined by white on outer side, excurved at median nervure 

 and angled outwards as a triangular bla( k mark on vein 1, a black 

 streak beyond it on costa ; antemedial line black defined by white 

 on inner side, slightly angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, and 

 very strongly excurved between those points, the area between it 

 and medial line suffused with fuscous except below costa and cell 

 and above inner margin ; the medial line black defined by white on 

 outer side, incurved below costa, slightly angled outwards in cell 

 and inwards on median nervure, then bent outwards and angled iu 

 submedian fold, then incurved ; reniforra represented by an elliptical 

 white patch, some slight fuscous suff'asion beyond lower angle of 

 cell ; pGstmedial part of costa with white spots with black marks 

 between them ; the postmedial line almost subterminal, black 



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