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Smerinthus horsfieldii, Moore Cat. Lep. E. I. 0., p. 264 (1857) non descr. 



Habitat.— Philippines ; Java, 



91a. Marumba sperchius. 



Smerinthus sper ■chius, Men. Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Petr. Lep., II. p. 137, 

 pi. 13, f. 5 (1857). 



Triptogon piceipennis, Butl. A. M. N. H, (4), XX. p. 393 (1877). 



Smerinthus michcclis, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1886, p. 56. 



Habitat. — Amurland ; Manchuria ; Japan ; China ; Loo Choo Is. 



Subsp. 1, gigas, Butl. P. Z. S., 1875, p. 253. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Subsp. 2, albicans, Butl. P. Z. S., 1875, p. 254. 



Habitat. — Punjab. 



916. Marumba indicus. 



Smerinthus indicus, Wlk., VIII. 254 (1856). 



Triptogon rectilinea, Moore P. Z. S., 1879, p. 388. 



Habitat. — N. India. 



91c. Marumba nympha (pi. D f. 17). 



Marumba nympha, Roths. Nov. Zool., IX., Suppl., p. 806 (1903). 



£. Head and thorax red-brown tinged with pink except on dorsum of 

 thorax and abdomen and on ventral surface ; palpi at sides, tibia? and tarsi 

 fuscous. Forewing red-brown ; the basal area suffused with pink and whitish, 

 except on costal area crossed by the indistinct rufous subbasal and antemedial 

 slightly incurved lines ; a medial oblique rufous band edged by rather darker 

 lines and with a wedge-shaped pinkish band beyond it from below costa to inner 

 margin with a slight whitish discoidal spot on it ; a postmedial pinkish band not 

 extending to costa, edged by darker lines which extend to costa, towards which 

 they are incurved, also incurved slightly at middle and strongly below vein 3, 

 and with a dark-brown ocellate spot with grey annulus above vein 1 ; the inner 

 margin grey towards tornus with a black-brown semicircular mark on it ; the 

 costal area tinged with pink before apex. Hindwing dark red-brown tinged 

 with grey towards inner margin ; traces of a curved subterminal line and of a 

 dark spot in submedian fold ; a more distinct black lunule at tornus ; the under- 

 side pale red-brown suffused with pink on basal area and grey on inner area ; 

 two nearly straight oblique medial rufous lines. 



Habitat.— N. Kanara ; Karwar (T. R. Bell), Exp. 80 mill. Type in B. M. 



Larva like that of P. dyras, but stouter. Food-plant Alseodaphne semi- 

 carpifolia (Laurineai). 



Genus Daphnusa. 



Type. 



Daphnusa, Wlk., VIII, 237 (1856) ocellaris. 



AUodaphnusa, Huwe Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., XL. p. 368 (1895). ocellaris. 



97. Daphnusa ocellaris. 



Daphnusa ocellaris, Wlk., VIII. 237 (1856). 



orbifera, Wlk.. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., VI., p. 85 (1862). 



