30 



BRAHM^ID^E. 



Larva. The 2nd and 3rd somites swollen and armed with a pair 

 of forwardly projecting lateral spines, which turn into warts at 

 the last moult. 



Pupa naked. 



32. Brahmaea wallichii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 39 ; C. $ S. no. 1579. 

 Brahmaea conchifera, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v, 1880, p. 188; 111. 



Het. v, pi. 95, figs. 3, 4 ; C. 8r S. no. 1577. 

 Bombva spectabilis, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 443. 

 Brahmaea rufescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi. 1880, p. 62 ; C. <§• S. 



no. 1578. 



c? . Head black ; antennae brown, with a brown band between 

 their bases ; thorax brown, with three pairs of black lines ; collar 

 with a pair of black spots ; abdomen brown, with paired square 



Fig. 15. — BrahmmawaUichii, <$ , i. 



segmental black spots : underside of head and thorax black ; of abdo- 

 men brown, with black lines. Tore wing pale olive-brown ; seven 

 waved black lines before the middle ; two black medial lines 

 enclosing an irregular space below the costa, then approaching 

 each other at vein 2, and enclosing a round space above inner 

 margin ; in these spaces the veins are marked with white and black ; 

 eight black lunulate lines on the outer area between vein 5 and the 

 inner margin, some of them in the form of " brackets," the outer 

 series forming ring-marks ; apical area with veins 6, 7, 8 marked 

 with white lunules ; a black subapical patch, with some fine black 

 lunules from it to vein 6 ; a yellow streak above vein 5. Hind 

 wing : the basal area deep black, with some brown streaks towards 

 inner margin ; outer area yellowish, shading to olive-brown; nine 

 waved lines, expanding into blue-black marks on the veins, with 

 white spots between them ; a submarginal broken line. Underside 



