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iircii, less rciiiiKlcil lliaii in riijili. litli)/iii(ili, more so tluui in ro.stafii, eilgeil with liiaclc 

 licliiiiil ; veins t nivcrsinu' disoai liund pale lii<(' inodiiui area as in rostata ; marginal 

 liand jjaic. 



I'm/nsiife of wings speckled with brown ; cell of forewing brown, the area 

 ending in a blackisii jiatcli ; disc of forewing slightly pink, that of hindwing pale 

 pink. 



JIal). Sabathn, X.W. India. 



Two 6 6 in the British Museum. 



HesemMing rnjihorhim- co-sfafa ; (liird ali<lominal segment williout indication of 

 a liluck palcli ; underside of wings more pink. 



/■. ('. cKphorhiae co^taid (PI. IX. f. 10, ?). 



Sphinx {IhilrtMa) c^Ktala Nordmann, IMI. .Uosron xxiv. 2. p. 444. t. 11. f. :i. 4 (1«.")1) (Kiaohta). 

 Dei/v/i/iilii nixlala, Staudiuger \- Wocke, Cut. Lep. ed. ii. p. 37. n. 470 (1H71) ; IJutl., Tnnix. Z„„l. 



Hoi: Uml. i.x. p. 5(19. u. 10 (1K77); Graes., Berl. K„t. ZeiUrhi: x.\.\v. p. 211 (1892) (Raddefka, ^); 



Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. G65. n. 10 (18it2) ; Bartel, in Riihl, Gronsurhm. ii. p. 95 (1899) (Gouv. 



Jenisseisk and Irkutsk ; Kiachta ; Raddefka) ; Stand. & Reb., tWf. Lep. ed. iii. p. 103. n. 7:')! 



(1901) (Kiachta ; " Amur false "). 



6 ?. We do uot believe that this insect is specifically distinct. We have seen 

 only a few. Nordmann's figure is not very exact. Mesothoracic tegula with white 

 upper border. Body above and forewing deep cinnamon-brown ; abdomen with a 

 small brownish black side-patch on fourth segment as in dahli. Costal area of 

 forewing broadly brown, sharply marked, patch beyond apex of cell merged together 

 with it, narrower than in most forms of euphorhiae ; veins traversing brown discal 

 band pale as in nervosa and certain maureUouca ; inner edge of brown band more 

 straight behind than in tlie other forms of euphorhiae. Hindwing below with the 

 black submarginal band (so sharply marked in Nordmann's figure) vestigial ; body 

 and wings with little red on the under surface. 



Early stages not known. 



Jlab. Transbaikalia ; Kiachta ; Raddefka. 



In the Paris Museum 1 ? from Kiachta (Popotf), here figured. 



675. Celerio gallii. 



S/iliiiix giilli'i Rottenburg, Xaiurf. vii. p. 107 (177i'i). 



Diitephila galii, Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. [). KUJ. u. 4 (1856) (parlim) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. 

 Lep. Het. i. p. 169. n. 12 (1875). 



c? ? . Confounded with cuphorbiue by the early writers. First protarsal 

 segment with the external row of spines comj)lete, double at base, the sj)ines little 

 prolonged. Pnl villus present. Antenna above white only at end. ■ 



6. Harpe more curved than in eiiphorbiae. 



Early stages similar to those of eupJiorbiae. 



Larva very variable, with few dots on l)ack ; pale spot near base of horn 

 always elongate ; ])rouotal shield often quite red. — Food-plants : Epilobium, 

 Asperula, etc. ; said to occur also on Euphorbia. 



Hub. Palaearctic and Neartic Regions, as far south as the Himalayas and 

 (ieorgia. 



Two suljspecies. 



The larvae found on Kxjihorbia may lie the product of liybridisation between 

 yallii and euphorhiae. 



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