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N0CTUIDJ5. 



Sk.ct. II. {Eligiiui). Antenna; of male almost simple. 



A. Hind wing yoUow with blue-black terminal band narcissus. 



B. Hind wing wholly black-brown orthoxantha. 



6635. Eligma narcissus. 



Bomhyx narcissus, Cra.m. Pap. Exot. 1. pi. 73. ff. E, F (1775); Hnipsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 43 ; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Hat. p. 383. 

 Eligma indica, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 57 (1896). 

 Eligma javanica, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 58 (189G). 

 Eligma pJiilijJ2Mnensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 58 (189(5). 



Head and thorax grey -brown with a faint purplish tinge ; palpi 

 with black streak at sides and patch at tips ; lower part of irons 

 with black spot ; a pair of spots at base of antennae ; tegulae with 

 pair of dorsal spots near base and spots at sides ; patagia with spots 

 near base and at tips ; mesothorax with a pair of spots, the meta- 

 thorax with two pairs ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore legs grey- 

 brown above, the tibiae with two pairs of black spots, the tarsi with 

 black bands at base and near tips, the mid and hind tibiae with 

 black spots, the tarsi brown tinged with grey ; abdomen yellow, the 

 basal crests grey -brown tipped with black, the other segments with 



Fig. 120. — Eligma narcissus, cJ. j. 



dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Pore wing with the costal 

 area dark slate-brown with an olive tinge, at middle extending to 

 discal fold and narrowing to points at base and apex, a curved 

 while fascia below this area, its upper edge slightly angled before 

 middle and at lower angle of cell and its lower edge somewhat 

 diffused, the rest of wing grey -brown with a purplish tinge ; three 

 black points at base with a curved series of three points beyond it ; 

 an oblique black streak from cosla on the upper edge of the white 

 fascia; an antemedial black point in cell, two below it defined by 

 white and a point above inner margin ; a black line from median 



