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Habitat. — N. & S. India ; Ceylon ; Sumatra ; Java ; Celebes. 



122. HlPPOTION BOERHAVLffi. 



Sphinx boerJiavice, Fabr. Syst. Enfc., p. 542 (1775). 



vampyrus, Fabr. Mant. Ins. II., p. 98 (1787). 

 „ octopunctata, Gmel. Syst. Nat., I., 5, p. 2386 (1790). 

 Cheer ocampa rosetla, Swinh. Cat. Het. IV! us. Oxon., p. 16 (1892). 

 Habitat. — N. & S. India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Malacca ; Penang ; Bunguran ; 

 Natuna Is. ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; Java ; Lombok ; Sumba ; Celebes ; 

 Kisser ; Larat ; Key Is. ; New Guinea ; Trobriand Is. ; Louisiades ; 

 Woodlark ; N. Pommern ; N. Lanenberg ; N. Hanover ; Solomons ; 

 Queensland. 



Genus Theretra. 



Type. 



Theretra, Hiibn., Verz., p. 135 (1827) nessus. 



Oreus, Hiibn., Verz., p. 136 (1827) gnoma. 



Gnathostypsis, Wllgrn. (Efv. Vet. Ak. Forh., XV., p. 137 (1858) capensis. 



Hathia, Moore, Lep. CeyJ. II., p. 19 (1882) latreilei. 



A. Hindwing red. 



a. Hindwing with the base black. 



a 1 . Thorax with dorsal grey stripe ; abdomen without 



lateral basal black patches mffusa. 



&'. Thorax without dorsal grey stripe; abdomen with 



lateral basal black patches alecto. 



b. Hindwing with the base red pallicosta, 



B. Hindwing not red or with narrow, ill-defined reddish 



tawny band. 

 a. Abdomen with dorsal lines or tawny or ochreous sub- 

 dorsal stripes arising from segment 3 and no pro- 

 minent lateral basal black patches. 

 a\ Palpus with the cavity large and sharply defined, nessus. 

 b'. Palpus with the cavity more or less concealed or 

 made irregular by rough scaling. 

 a- . Forewing with broad grey subterminal band ... griseomarginata 

 b~. Forewing without broad grey subterminal band. 

 a 3 . Forewing with the stigma situated on an ill- 

 defined dark patch, postmedial band curved 

 or indistinct except at inner margin where 

 with the antemedial band it forms a square 



patch, or the wing nearly all brown insignis. 



b° . Forewing with the stigma isolated, followed 

 by a straight oblique dark band, formed 

 of two or three distinct lines. 

 a 4 . Abdomen with the pale dorsal line simple, 



white pinasirina. 



