SPHINGID/E. 37 



Antennas rather long, moderately stout throughout, white, 

 with the lower side, and pectinations in the male, faintly 

 brownish ; head bluntly pointed, olive-brown, with a white 

 stripe over each eye ; thorax very broad, olive-brown, with a 

 broad white stripe continued from that over the eyes along 

 each side of the thorax, above the insertions of the wings, to 

 the abdomen, where it turns up a little towards the back at 

 the tip of the shoulder lappets, thence shading off to light 

 reddish brown at the back of the thorax. Abdomen round, 

 stout, tapering from the middle to a point at the tail ; olive- 

 brown with a broad black bar on each side of the first segment, 

 a large black spot on each side of the second, a white bar 

 between them, and a large white spot on the third, beyond 

 which are white lines at the edges of the remaining segments 

 except the last. Legs all white. Fore wings rather short 

 and broad, but pointed, with the costal margin hardly curved 

 except towards the tip ; hind margin oblique, nearly straight ; 

 dorsal margin waved. Hind wings rather broad with the 

 apex nearly rectangular, hind margin slightly curved and 

 with a hollow before the anal angle, which is broad and 

 rounded off. Fore wings very pale rosy-grey, or rosy- white, 

 faintly sprinkled with grey atoms, having at the base a large 

 blotch of olive-brown, the edge of which, arising on the costa 

 a short distance from the base and curving broadly, attains 

 the base of the dorsal margin. At this spot the olive-brown 

 blotch shades into black, and touching it is a large tuft of 

 long white scales covering the base of the wing. Dorsal 

 margin narrowly white. Beyond the discal cell is a pear- 

 shaped olive-brown blotch usually united with a cloud of the 

 same colour along the costa, which in some cases forms also 

 a second, smaller, blotch beyond. Upon the dorsal margin 

 from the middle to near the anal angle, as from a wide base, 

 arises a broad olive-brown stripe which, narrowing rapidly as 

 it crosses the wing, attains the apex as a mere point. Outside 

 this oblique stripe the hind margin is pale rosy-grey, a little 

 darker than the ground colour. Hind wings rosy pink, with 



