EUCHROMIA, 297 



8ubsp. 1. splcndens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 113, pi. 4. f. 4 ; Kirby, 

 €at. Het. p. 117. 



Hind wiug with the patch below the cell extending to origin of 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Cameroons, type; Old Calabar (Cocl-hum, Steadleij). 



G55. Euchromia horsfieldi. 



Phalanna JwrsfiehU, Mooi-e, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 200, pi. 60. f. 13 ; id. Lep. 

 E. I. C. p. 328, pi. xiv, flP. 9, 9a ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 118. 



(S . Black ; vertex of head and thorax largely suffused with 

 metallic blue ; frons, a line behind eyes, spots on shoulders, sides of 

 thorax, and coxae white ; abdomen with bands on 1st and 4th seg- 

 ments varying from pale orange to white, the other segments with 

 metallic blue bands. Fore wing with metallic blue spots at base of 

 costa and on discocellulars ; a wedge-shaped orange-yellow patch in 

 cell ; an elongate patch below the cell often indented by a small or 

 large spot at middle of its lower edge, or divided into two patches ; 

 a series of four elongate spots beyond the cell between veins 3 

 and 7. Hind wing with orange patch in base of cell ; patches below 

 the cell and on inner area which are usually white, but sometimes 

 partly orange ; a large orange patch beyond the cell between veins 

 2 and 7. 



$ without white on coxa). 



Hah. Borneo (Hose); Java (liorsjield)^ type; Sambawa ; Bali 

 {Doherty). Exp. 42-44 millim. 



Larva reddish ochrcous, with long paired black dorsal tufts on 

 2nd and 3rd somites ; a lateral series of tubercles bearing black 

 hairs; somites 4-11 with dorsal ridges of black and blue hair 

 extending to above lateral tubercles ; the last two somites with 

 dorsal setiferous tubercles. Food-plant Dioscorea. 



Cocoon thickly clothed with black and blue hairs. 



G5G. Euchromia polymelia. 



Spldnx polymena, Linu. Syst. Nat. i. p. 494 (1858); Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 

 pi. 13. D ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 39, pi. 94. ff. G,6a ; Hmpsu. Motli.- 

 Ind. i. p. 227 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 118. 



J . Black ; white patches on frons, shoulders, sides of thorax, 

 and coxse ; vertex of head and thorax suffused with metallic blue ; 



Fig. 137. — Euchromia polymcno, ^. \. (From Moths lud., vol. i.) 



tegulse crimson ; abdomen with crimson bands on 4th and 5th seg- 

 ments ; slight blue bands on 2nd and 3rd segments, becoming white 



