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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    scales, and continued along the costa to the apex, an indistinct double waved postmedial line; the outer area from vein 4 to outer angle suffused with red-browu. Hind wing pure white. Pig. 93.—Liparopsis postalbida, S- t- Hah. Naga Hills, 6000 feet (DolerUf). Exp. 38 millim. Tvpe in coll. Elwes. ^ i n Genus CERURA. Cerura, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 2 Abth. p. 155 (1802). Harpyia, Ochs. Hur. Schmett. iii, p. 19 (1810). Type, C. furcula, Schr., from Europe. Sange. N. America ; Europe ; China; throughout India and Ueylon. Palpi slight and porrect; antennae with the branches long and reachmg the apex. Legs hairy. Fore wing broad; veins 6 and 10 given off from end of areole, which is short and formed by 9 anastomosing with 8. Hind wing with veins 6 and 7 stalked; 8 running close along 7 to near the end of the cell, 276. Cerura lit^^^^ta.^^J]|^ea^ v, p. 988; Butl. III. Ret. vi, pi. 106, Cerura damodara, Moore^P. Z. S. 1865, p. 812 ; C. & S. no. 112.3 Harpyia kandjia Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 108, pi. 120 fio-s 1 la (larva and pupa) ; C. ^ ^. no. 1126. ^ ' ° ' Harpyia wisei, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 139, pi. viii, fig. 3. Pure white; palpi black; collar, tegul^, and thorax spotted with b ack; abdomen either banded or al.aost completely suffused with black, leaving a white patch with a black semicircular mark on the last segment, lore wing with two waved subbasal lines from the costa to median nervure, some black spots below the median nervure; a highly waved antemedial band; a waved medial hne • a black line on discoeellulars surrounded by a hlack ring-mark- three waved postmedial lines; the last with some black spots be-' yond It; a marginal and cilial series of black spots. Hii d Mdng more or less suffused with fuscous; two indis inct medial lines and a series of marginal black spots.