Volume 1

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson.

Date:
1892-1896
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Larva green, with yellow dots at sides ; a darker dorsal line; a subdorsal purple-red band, edged with yellow on thoracic somites and with white from 4th somite; a blue ocellus on 3rd somite ; a series of blue white-centred ocelli from 5th to 10th somites; horn ])urple-brown, with white tubercles. Before changing the larva becomes blotched with dark red ; in the early stages the ground- colour is pale red or green. Hab. Throughout India and Ceylon; Java; Borneo. Exi). 98- 124 millim. 148. Daphnis andamanus, Druce, Ent. Mo. Mat/, xix, p. 16; C. 8f S. no. 11(3. Differs from liypothous in the head, thorax, and abdomen being uniform red-brown without markings. Eore wing red-brown, the subbasal and postmedial bands narrower, the latter with the angles at veins 1 and 5, but not produced outwards along vein 4. Hmd wing red-brown. • u *. AUied to Jiorsfieldi, But!., from Java and New Guinea, but redder and without the body-markings. Eab. Audamans. Exjj. 68 millim. 149. Daphnis layardi, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 16, pi. 84, fig. 1; C.8i S. no. 117. Differs from hypothous in being ruddy brown, not olive in hue ; abdomen with a pale fringe to each segment. U^^^f'^/^ ^^^ ^^'^ white spots at apex of fore wing and at end of cell of each wmg minute. Eab. Ceylon. Exp. 86 millim. 150. Daphnis ernestinus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 534, pi. 211, fig. 1. Differs from layardi in being pale greyish brown; sides of thorax but shghtly darker; no dark patches at end of abdomen Eore wing with the basal black spot on a grey patch; the pale antemedial area wider; the dark postmedial area with a diffused and not angulate outer margin; the markings tow^ards outer margin very faint. Hind win| uniform dark brown, with a pale submarginal line. ira6. Pundaloya, Ceylon. Exj^. 64 millim. 151. Daphnis bhaga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 794; C. 4' S. no. 115. Differs from layardi in the head, thorax, and abdomen being .nSorm brow., ex'cept that the last two -^-^^^^^^^^^^ t^^:^ ^^^^^^^^ -