DEILEPHILA CLOTHO. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. 1. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Crepuscularia. Familt : Sphingidae, Leach. 



Genus. Deilephila, Ochs. Spectrum p. Scop. Sphinx p. Linn. 



Deilephila Clotho. Alis cinereo-olivaceis, linea rectil e margine postico ad apicem ducta nigra ; posticis 

 nigris externe fuscis, angulo ani pallidiori. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc.) 



Syn. Sphinx Clotho. Drury, App. vol. 2. 

 Sphinx Butus, Cram. tab. 152. A. 

 Sphinx Gnoma, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111.1. 376. No. Gl. (nee Clotho, Fabr. Joe. cit. No. 60.) 



Habitat : Madras. 



Upper Side. Antennae cream-coloured. Head brown olive, with a cream-coloured stripe running 

 on each side to the abdomen. Thorax brown olive. Abdomen paler, having a black spot on each side 

 near the thorax. Anterior wings light olive brown, with a line running from the tips to the middle of 

 the posterior edges, and a small black spot next the shoulders. Posterior wings, next the body, black ; 

 but along the external edges brown, and palest at the abdominal corners. 



Under Side. Tongue curled up. Breast and sides cream-coloured. Abdomen darker. Wings 

 •yellowish clay-coloured and freckled. The anterior having a dark cloud in the middle of each, near the 

 shoulders ; and the posterior having a faint indented line crossing them from the anterior to the abdo- 

 minal edges. 



.^GERIA TIBIALIS. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. 2. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Crepuscularia? Familk : Mgefiidx, Stepk. 



Genus. vEgeria, Fabr. Sesia, Latr. Sphinx, Drury. Zygfena, Fabr. 



jEoeria Tibialis. Alis anticis fuscis imraaculatis, posticis hyalinis ; tibiis postieis plumosis testaceis. (E,\pans. 

 Alar. 1 unc. IJ lin.) 



Syn. Sphinx tibialis, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Zygajna tibialis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111.1. 404. No. 62. Ginel. Linn. S. N. 2399. 151. 



Habitat : Sierra Leone. 



Upper Side. Antennae black, slightly pectinated ; being thickest towards the extremities, and end- 

 ing in a point; where, by the assistance of a microscope, may be observed a small tuft of hairs. Head 

 ash-coloured. Thorax and abdomen dark hair colour ; the latter being encircled with small white rings. 

 Anterior wings narrow, and of a dark hair colour, without any marks or spots. Posterior hyaline. 

 Cilia dark brown. 



Under Side. Palpi yellowish. Tongue curled uj). Breast and abdomen yellowish, having some 

 grey hairs placed between them. Fore and middle legs dark brown. Hinder legs remarkably hairy; 

 being scarlet on the out sides, and black on the inner and under sides, with some white tufts intennixed. 

 Wings as on the upper side. 



