Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3

by Dru Drury

Habitat: Africa.

Upper Side. Antennæ black, smallest at the tips. Eyes grey and shining. Palpi black. Head and thorax black. Abdomen black, with orange-coloured rings; the extremity being very small and long, and furnished with a tuft of hairs expanding like a star.

Under Side. Tongue spiral. Head and palpi orange. Breast black. Legs orange, furnished with long tibial spurs; the two hinder thighs having tufts of black hairs issuing from the tips above. Abdomen orange, sides black.

PLATE III.

COSSUS LAOCOON.

Plate [III]. fig. 1.

Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Hepialidæ, Steph.

Genus. Cossus, Fabr. Phalæna (Bombyx), Linn.

Cossus Laocoon. Alis rufo-badiis, apice obscurioribus maculâ mediâ albidâ, nigro punctatâ, lunulisque submarginalibus pallidis. (Expans. Alar. 6 unc. 3 lin.)