( 283 ) 



f. 15) ; the part (si) between these grooves sometimes tuberculiform ; laterally the 

 ritlge joining the tergite, the ventral part of which (/) is often folded. 



Larva green, with yellowish granules and seven side-bands. — Food-plant : 

 Q//rrrlt.s. 



dlirysalis somewliat glossy as in Sjj/ii/hr orellfifa, densely rngose ; clyi>eus and 

 frontal tubercles rather prominent ; fifth and si.xth abdominal sternite with a small 

 smooth place at each side ; cremaster rough, ending in two points. 



Ila//. South Germany (Bavaria), southward to Spain, ( 'entral Italy, Greece, 

 S. Hussia, Caucasia, Asia Minor, and Mesojiotamia. 



In tiie Tring Museum 2 pupae, 4n odd specimens. 



240. Marumba indicus. 



*Si,>eri)i/liiis hulh-iis Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. .U. viii. p. '254. n. 17 (18,5i;) (N. India ;— Mus. Brit); 



Boisd., Sjiei: (ihi. Up. IIH. i. p. 45. o. 30 (1875). 

 Trlploijon hulicu, Butler, Trans. Zoal. Soc. Loml. is. p. 588. ii. 18 (1877) : Cot. & Swiali., T,,/. .)/„(/,« 



hid. i. p. 27. n. 150 (1887) (Indian Uw. 1 .spec.) ; .Swinb., Cat. Lep. ffi/. .]fiis. O.r. i. p. 27. 



E. 104 (1892) (India). 

 *Tnj)l(Hjoii rei'tilinea Moore, Proc. Zim}. Soi: Luml. p. 388 (1879) (N. India ;— Mus. Dublin); 



Waterh., Aid Iih„t. Ins. ii. t. 140. f. 5 (cj) (1883) ; Cot. & Swinb., Cut. Moths I ml. i. p. 27. 



n. 149 (1887). 

 Tripinijun iiidknm, Butler, ///».s7r. Typ. Sp,nm. Lep. Ilet.B. M. v. p. 13. t. 81. f. 2 (1881). 

 Manimha (V) hidinim. Kirby, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 708. n. 27 (1892). 

 I'oliiptijchis di/ras, Hampso'n (imii Walker, 185li), in Blanf., Fauna Brit. Ind., Muths i. p. (39. n. 91 



(1892) (partim). 



cj. Tibiae with very few spines ; foretibia ending in a long thorn as in 

 Ai/nosia ornetts. Antenna long and stout, similar to that of spercltiuK. Tenth 

 tergile separated into two rather slender lobes (PI. XXVI. f. 14) ; sternite rounded 

 at the sides, aj)ex pointed. Dorso-apical lobe of clasper pointed, curving downwards ; 

 hook of harpe strongly curved (PI. XXXIV. f. 17). 



? and early stages not known. 



Ilab. North India. 



In the Britisli Museum, tlie Dublin Museum, and the Hope Museum at 0.\l'ord. 

 In till' Tring Museum 1 S received in e.xchange from tlie Ilojie collection. 



LXV. DAPHNUSA. 



Daphnnna Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 237 (185G) (partim ; type : ncellaris). 

 Smerinlhiis, Boisduval (nan Latreille, 1802), Spe,: Gen. Lep. HH. 1. 28 (1875). 

 Allodapliniisa Huwe, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. xl. p. 308 (1895) (type : aeella ris) . 



c? ?. Tongue very weak and short, the two halves filiform, separated, the fringe 

 not always developed. Pilifers closer together than in other Sphingidae, and 

 standing together with the triangular epistome on a kind of lobe or pedestal 

 (PI. LXII. f. 4); they are clothed with bristles and some scales; genal process 

 {(jp) high, triangular ; carina of labrum short, high, almost tuberculiform. Palpus 

 smooth-scaled, large in c?, second segment angulate laterally iu a ventral view ; 

 end-surface in a plane with the frons, large, rhombiform ; joint open. Antenna 

 grooved in both sexes ; distal segments (PI. LX. f. 7) narrow and short, the ventral 

 part conical, almost cylindrical ; the sensory cone at the tip of these projections 

 long ; scales at apex of last segment long. Tibiae densely spinose ; hind-tibiae 

 with one pair of short spurs ; pulvillus and paronychium present, the latter with 

 two rather heavy lobes at each side. Abdominal tergites with the uuderscales 



