A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...ferruginous, with a broadish blackish border from the anterior angle along the exterior margin of both wings, and having narrow blackish lunular marks disposed along the inner margin of the border, also three black spots on each posterior wing from the anal angle. Undeb-side paler, with a tapering fascia crossing both wings, this being white on the posterior wing; also two ranges of lunular markings along the exterior margin, and six spots disposed across the posterior wing, near the white fascia. The female differs above, in being of a brighter colour, and in having the border blacker, the anterior wings having a narrow blackish disco-cellular mark; the lunular marks of the posterior wings being darker and more suffused, and having six spots disposed from anal to anterior angle. Beneath, the colours and markings are stronger. a.b. $?. Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 310. CIRROCHROA RAVANA, Moore. Cirrochroa Havana, n. sp.--Female: Uppeb-side, with base of both wings, to irregular transverse black line from middle of costal margin to a little above the anal angle, dull ferruginous, the rest being paler and brighter, and almost yellow on the fore-wing; exterior margin of fore-wing broadly from the apex to posterior angle, and narrowly along exterior margin of hind-wing black, the former with an indistinct pale spot on the apex, the latter with marginal and sub-marginal lunulated line and some spots across the disc black. Undeb-side much paler, faintly glossed with pearly-white; a tapering pearly-white band from middle of costal margin to near anal angle, a marginal and a sub-marginal lunulated line, and a row of black spots encircled with ferruginous across disc of hindwing; markings within discoidal cell ferruginous; two small white spots at the apex...