416 LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 



Deep black. Head and pectus with white spots. Antennae 

 blue, tinged with green and purple. Thorax with a blue stripe 

 along each side. Abdomen with a row of white spots along each 

 side ; tip blue, testaceous beneath. Wings with some red spost 

 towards the base, and with some blue and white spots along the fore 

 border and towards the tips ; these spots are larger and more nume- 

 rous on the under side, and extend there over the whole wing. 

 Hind wings bright blue towards the tips. Length of the body 

 10 — 12 lines ; of the wings 34 — 38 lines. 



a, b. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



c. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



d. North India. From Mr. L. James' collection. 



4. Cyclosia venusta. 



Mas. Atra ; corpus, antenna et pedes cyanea ; caput et pedes 

 subtus alba; abdomen subtus albo fasciatum ; aloe maculis 

 apices versus albis, apice cyanece. Fcem. Alee posticce areolis 

 plerumque albidis. 



Male. Deep black. Body, antennae and legs metallic blue or 

 green. Head and legs white beneath. Proboscis piceous. Abdo- 

 men beneath with white bands, which are dilated on each side; tip 

 white beneath. Wings with a slight cupreous tinge which is most 

 apparent beneath, with white spots from about the middle to the 

 tips, towards which they are brilliant blue, as is also the costa be- 

 neath. Female. Differs from the male in the white spots which 

 are larger and more numerous, in the brilliant blue tinge which is 

 mostly wanting, and in the areolets of the hind wings which are 

 more or less whitish. Length of the body 9 — 10 lines ; of the wings 

 30—34 lines. 



a, b. Silhet. From Mr. Argent's collection. 

 c. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



5. Cyclosia Papilionaeis. 



Alee albido-flavoe, margine venisque dilatatis ramosis nigris et versus 

 medium coalitis, maculas albas efformantibus. 



Heleona Papilionaris, Westiv. ed. Drury. ii. 4, pi. 2, f. 4. 

 Drury, Ins. Exot. ii. 4, pi. 2, f. 4. 



Phalaena (Noctua) Papilionaris, Drury, App. ii. 



