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and there are no distinct ocellated spots. The horn in 

 Philampelus and its aUies is well marked in the young larva, 

 but in the full-grown larva is replaced by a shining tubercle. 

 The pupa is rather slender, and is formed beneath the surface 

 of the ground. 



The types of the genus Diipo may be recognised by 

 the pale longitudinal and oblique bands on the fore-wings, 

 and by several of the nervures being in part conspicuously 

 pale. 



DUPO VITIS. 

 {Plate cm.) 



SpJmix vitis, Linnc^us, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 491, no. 16 

 (1758); id., Mus. Ludov. Ulricas, p. 354 (1764); Drury, 

 111. Exot. Schmett., i., pi. 28, fig. i (1773) ; Cramer, Pap. 

 Exot, ii., pi. 267, fig. C (1780); Rcemer, Gen. Ins., 

 pi. 20, fig. I (1785); Abbot & Smith, Lepid. Gcorg., i., 

 pi. 40 (1797). 



Sphinx fasciatus, Sulzer, Gesch. Ins., pi. 20, fig. i (1776). 



Eumorpha elegans jussieucc, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett._, 

 i., pi. 168 (1806?). 



Diipo jussieucc,l^\\hnQx, I.e., ii., pi. 163 (1824?); Boisduval, 

 Spec. Gen. Ecpid. Hcter., i., p. 202 (1875). 



The fore-wings are olive-brown, wiih a broad llesh-coloured 

 band running from the tip to the middle of the inner margin. 

 Near the tij) it is bifurcated, throwing a branch upwards to 

 the costa, and below the middle it is united with another 

 broad band running to the base, and connected about its 

 middle with the inner margin by a short straight line. 'Jlie 

 costa and hind margin are bordered with rusty grey, and 

 the three median nervules form conspicuous whitish lines. 

 The inner margin is also narrowly bordered with whitish. 



