( ■'5K' ) 



of clasiicr brown or black on luitlrib ami at edge; liarpe (PI. XL VI II. f. IT) sliortet' 

 tlian in the otlier species of the genus, hiyardi excejiteil, distal margin angnlated, 

 npper margin soraewhat flattened, with two rows of teeth (only one row visible 

 in side-view), renis-sheath (PI. LV. f. 27) armed with two slender processes : 

 the left horizontal, tlie right oblicpieiy curved towards the ventral side. 



?. Tlie distal portion of the vaginal plate nearly smooth; the ehitinised 

 lialfring-sliajied phite in front of tlie vaginal aperture not raised to a carina 

 or ridge. 



Larva green (or red), witli small ocellus on third segment, a pale dorso-lateral 

 line from head to horn; the latter grauulose, curved, rather long (mucli longer 

 tlian in adult nerii). — Food-plant : {"nn-hond. 



Pupa less slender than in nerii, lateral sjiots of abdomen lai'ger on segments 

 3 and 4 ; cremaster elongate-triangular, deeply biconcave ventrally, being cariuate 

 mesially ; apex truncate, witli the angles ])ro(luced dorsad and laterad each into 

 a prominent tooth. 



Ilith. Oriental 1{( gion, from Cleylon and North India eastwards to the Solomon 

 Ishuuls. 



Two snl)species : 



(I. D. Injpothivn^ hiipotlions. 



Spltiiix liiz/Killiiiiia Cranior, l.r. 



D,iphiii.'< hipjmllwiis (!), Hiibner, I.e. (1822). 



J)(ij>hiil.f iierii, Walker, List Lei). Lm. B. M. viii. p. 188. n. ] (ISfjO) (partim : Ceylon). 



Dara/Kit Jiyjjolhoiis, id., I.e. viii. p. 186. n. (i. (1856) (.Java ; partim) ; Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, 

 Cfit. Lej>. Ins. Jfii.'i. E. I. C. i. p. '271. n. G27. t. 10. f. 2. 2a (_L, ]>.) (1857) (partim ; Java) ; id., 

 Pioi'. ZdoI. Snc. Loud. p. 67G (18G7) (Calcutta ; /. & p. mentioned). 



Cliiwrorampii hyjiuthoiis, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. 226. n. 3 (1875) (Moluccas ; Philippines ; 

 Java) ; Pagenst., Jnhrh. .V«.w. Ver. Nut. xli. p. 105. n. 199 (1888) (Amboina) ; Piep., TijiUdn: 

 Eiit. xl. p. 98. t. 1. f. 21. 22 (horn of /.), p. 100. t. 2. f. 6. 7 (larva) (1897) (Java). 



DiiplniU h//jiiitlious, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lnml. ix. p. 572. n. 2 (1877) (Ce.vlou ; Java: Labuau : 

 Sarawak) ; Moore, Lqi. Cei/tmi ii. p. 15. t. 8. 3. f. 1. la (I.,]'., i) (1882) (various stages of larva): 

 Cot. i- Swinh., C<it. .Mutlis bid. i. p. 21. n. IDi (1887) (Sikhim ; Sibmger : Calcutta ; Ceylon : 

 Andamans) ; iid., /.,-. p. 727. n. 113(1889) (Andamans) ; Swinh., Gd. Lep. Het. Mux. Or. i. p. 23. 

 n. 88 (1892) (Assam ; Nepaul ; Ceylon ; Amboina) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 672. n. 2 (1892) ; 

 Hamps., in Blanf., Famia Brit. Lid., Mothsi. p. 95. n. i47 (1892) (India; Ceylon ; Java : 

 Borneo) ; Huwe, Berl. Knt. Zeitsrhr. xl. p. 366. n. 34 (1895) (Java) ; Semp., ^chm. PInlipp. ii. 

 p. 401. n 42 (1896) (Cebu, vii.— ix., xii.— xiii. ; Palawan) ; Dudg., .Iniini. Bondiut/ X. H. S..r. xi. 

 p. 415. n. 147 (1898) (Sikhim, Bhutan, up to 6000 ft. ; larva on C'iiirli.,n<i ace. to Ehves). 



Otus hi/pntlKiiix, Snellen, Tijdsrhr. Ent. xx. p. 2. n. II (1877) (Java). 



S ? . The interspace M' — M- of the npperside of the forewing outside the olive- 

 green area more or less greyish, the triangular projection M'- — SM- of the green 

 area bordered by a fine white line, the rhomboidal green spot near anal angle also 

 with a white line at the inuerside. Left process of penis-sheath long (PL LV. 

 f. 27), reaching the base of the right process. 



JIdd. Ceylon to Nortli India, eastwards to the Moluccas and the Teuimber and 

 Key Islands. 



In the Tring Museum 60 c?J', 18 ?? from: Ceylon: Sikhim: Perak ; 

 I'enang ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; Java ; Sumba ; Celebes ; Amboina ; Sjerra (= Seira) 

 and Larat, Teuimber Is. ; Little Key. 



The individual (?) from Sjerra has the white lines of the forewing and the 

 bullish band of the hiudvving prominently marked. 



