22 SPIIINGID.E. 



83. Chaerocampa lucasii. 



Deilephila lucasii. Boisd. : MS. 



ChcErocampa lucasii. Walker: viii. 141 (1856). 



Moore: Cat Lep. E. I. C, i. p. 277, pi. 11, figs. 3, 



3 a, larva (1857). 

 Boisd. : Sp. Gen. Lep., p. 254 (1875). 

 Butler: T. Z. S., Lend., ix. p. 560 (1876). 



111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., v. p. 8, pi. 79, 



fig. 5 (1881). 

 Swinhoc : P. Z. S., Lend., 1885, p. 289. 

 Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, i. 17. 95 



(1887). 

 Swinh. : Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1889, p. 164. 



Hathia lucasii. Moore : Lep. Ceyl., ii. p. 20, pi. 86, fig. 3 (1882). 

 Type. North India, in B. M. 



a. Java (Horsfield). b. Java (Kirby). c. Sarawak (Wallace). 



d. Silhet. e. ? (Ashmol. Mus.). 



84. Chserocampa eras. 



Deilephila eras. Boisd. : Voy. de I'Astrolabe, Ent., p. 185 (^1832-35). 



Feisthamel : Mag. de Zool. Ins., pi. 21, fig. 2 (1839J. 



Darapsa eras. Walker: viii. 186 (1856). 



Chcerocampa eras. Butler : T. Z. S., Lond., ix. p. 567 (1876). 



a. Sydney (3). b. Australia (Codrington). 



Genus DEILEPHILA. Osch. : Eur. Schm., iv, p. 42 (1816). 



85. Deilephila euphorbioides, n. sp. 



Above, body chocolate brown, palpi, head and thorax with a white 

 band on each side, abdomen with two square black spots on the 

 sides before the middle, and white bands beneath them, as in D. 

 enphorbice{\Arvci.) ; fore-wings with a pale pinkish grey, slightly sinuous 

 stripe from the centre of the hinder margin to the apex, outside this 

 the colour is of a unifonn dark chocolate brown, on the other side 

 the wing is mostly grey, with indistinct darker spaces, corresponding 

 to the patches in D. euphorbia;., costa brownish, and a brown spot 

 at the end of the cell. 



Hind-wings red, a white space at the end of the abdominal margin, 

 a black basal band with a re-curved outer margin as in D. bigiittata 

 (Walker), a black sub-marginal thin band, and the marginal space 

 beyond pinkish grey. 



Underside, dull grey, with a faint pinkish suffusion, striated with 

 darker grey in the basal costal and outer marginal portions of both 

 wings : darkest on fore- wings, palpi, face and pectus whitish, legs 

 grey. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches. 

 a. Japan (type). 



Intermediate between D. biguttata (Walker), from Africa, and D. 

 euphorbiii: (Linn.) from Europe, nearest to the latter in the pattern 



