DESCRIPTIONS 



INDIAN LEPIDOPTIJIA IIETEROCERA 



FKOM THE 



COLLECTION OF THE LATE MK. W. S. ATKINSON. 



BY 



FREDERIC MOORE, F.Z.S. etc., 



ASSISTANT CURATOR, INDIA MUSEUM, LONDON. 



Family SPHINGID Jil *. 



Genus APOCALYPSIS, Butkr. 

 Apocahjpsis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. pt. x. p. Gil (1876). 



Allied to Eurygluttis ; similar iu pattern, but at once distinguished by the much 

 smoother thorax, shorter and more slender antennae, more prominent and less crested head. 



Apocalyi'sis velox. 

 Apocahjpsis velox, Butler, /. c. p. GM (1876). 



Fore wing long and pointed, sepia-brown, with the veins, a chain-like discal excavated 

 transverse band, and some oblique lines connecting its outer border with the apices of the 

 radial veins pale brown ; an oblique white streak from the apex to the upper radial : hind 

 wing smoky brown, the costal and abdominal areas paler ; a basal hairy patch, two diiFused 

 abbreviated discal bands distinct towards abdominal area, and a broad outer border deep 

 brown, darkest at the anal angle ; margin blackish, the fringe and a diffused narrower streak 

 at anal angle white. Body smoky brown, head and collar darker ; a central longitudinal 



* The new species of Sphingidic were luinded over to Mr. Butler for description, he heing then engaged in writinfc 

 a revision of that family. They therefore appear hero as doscrihed by that author. — F. M. 



