( 554 ) 



p. M. n. ISfi (180-.>') (Canara ; Bengal ; Ceylon') ; ITamps., in Blanf., Fniiwi Brit. Iml. Mcilis 

 i. p. 108. D. 172 (18111') (India ; Ceylon) ; Dudg., Jmnii. limiduui .V, //. Nor. xi. p. -lli;. n. ITlJ 

 (1898) (Sikbim, IkOi) ft., iii. iv.). 

 Nephila (!) hesjiera, Butler, Frw: Znol. Noc. Loml. p. :i70. n. IKi (188G) (Campbellpore, xi.). 



cj?. Tlie two Indo-Australian species (wliicli may eventually prove to be 

 geographical forms of one species only) differ from nearly all the others in the short 

 terminal spnr of tlie hindtibia being provided with few and rather thin spines 

 only, which stand in the distal half of the spnr ; comb of hiudtarsus also less 



develojjed than in the African sjjccies of Nephe.U'. Hindwing raw nmlier colour, 



witli a tint of rnsset, or more russet ; outer ninrgiiial area darker in tint. 



There are two forms : — 



u . N. <li<li/ma f. didi/ma. 



Sjjhiiix didi/mii Fabricius, I.,: : fioeze, Eiil. Beiilr. iii. ■>. p. -JOT. n. 14 (1780) ; Fabr., Spec. Ins. ii. 

 p. 148. n. 41 (1781) (syn. excl.) ; id., Mmit. Jiix. ii. p. '.)(;. n. 4,j (1787) ; Gmel., Si/st. X<il. i. b. 

 p. •_'881. n. 7'.» (17110) (syn. excl.) ; Fabr. E/it. S.i/sl. iii. 1 p. :i71. n. 4.s (171i:5) (syn. excl.) 



Sphinx morphenx Cramer, I.e. ; Goeze, I.e. p. '>2i. n. 75 (1780). 



Ncph'le mnrphetis, Hilbner, Verz. hel. Schiii. p. 13:^. n. 14.32 (1822). 



Sphinx (juaUriia Charpentier, in Esp., Aiisliiiid. Srhni., Zim. i. 1. f. 2 (18.'J0). 



Nephila (!) heq^era var. wmphcHn. Butler, Proc. Zool. So,: Loud. p. Sl'X n. 06 (1886) (Campbell- 

 pore, xi.). 



(? ? . Forewing with two silvery spots, separated by D', the second the larger, 

 somewhat elongate and curved, the first rounded ; there is, besides, often a small 



dot in \ipiier angle of cell. 



//. N. didjima f. hespcra. 



Sphinx hexpem. Fabricius, Syst. KnI. p. 546. n. .33 (1875) (Ind. or.) ; Goeze, /.-■. p. 208. n. IS (1780) ; 



Fabr., Spec. Iii«. ii. p. 152. n. 54 (1781) ; id., Mtint. Ins. ii. p. 01. n. 59 (1787) ; Gmel., Syst. Xat. 



i. 5. p. 2384. n. 87 (1700) ; Fabr., Ent. Syst. iii. 1. p. 372. n. 49 (1793) ; Auriv., Ent. Tidsl-r. 



xviii. p. 152 n. 82 (1897). 

 Sphinx chiron Cramer, Pfqi. Exut. ii. p. 62. t. 137. f. v. (1777) (Coromandel) : Goeze, 1.c. p. 222. n. 67 



(1780). 

 Nephele rhiroii, Hubner, /..-., p. 133. n. 1434 (1822). 



ZonUia chiron, Walker, /..•. viii. p. 196. n. 8 (1856) ; Boisd., /.<■. p. 145. n. 11 (1875). 

 Zoniliaiieneus, Walker, I.e. viii. p. 193. n. 2 (1856) (sub syn.). 

 Perigonia ohliterans Walker, I.e. xxxi. p. 28 (1864) (N. Hindostan). 

 Nepiiele ehyroii (!), Smith, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soe. xv. p. 60 (1888). 



c? ?. Forewing without silvery spots, or only with a minute dot. 



Ilab. Ceylon to North West India, eastwards to Java. 



In the Tring Museum : — 



f. didyma 13 cJJ, 11 ?? from: Ceylon; Canara; Peermand ; NilgJtis : 

 Sabathu : Kadakheit ; Java. 



f hr.ipern 11 c?c?, fi ?? from: Ceylon; Nilgiris ; Dalhousie ; Sikhim : 

 Bombay ; Burma ; Peuang ; Java. 



No representative oi Nephele has as yet been found in Borneo, the Philippines, 

 Celebes, the Moluccas, the lesser Suuda Islands, New Guinea and neighbouring 

 groups of islands. In this area occurs perhaps a form connecting didyma with 

 subvaria. 



47.1 Nephele subvaria. 



*Znnilia .<'nhr,iri<i Walker, I.i.it I.ep. Ins. B. M. \\n. p. 196. n. 9 (1856) (Australia ;— Brit. Mus. ) ; 

 Misk., Prne. liny. Sue. Qneeimld. viii. p. 26. n. 45 (1891) (Swan R. ; Brisbane : Rockhampton). 



