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f. 15) ; the part (si) between these grooves sometimes tnberculiform ; laterally the 

 ridge joiniug the tergite, the ventral i)art of which (/) is often folded. 



Larva green, with yellowish grannies and seven side-bands. — Food-plant : 

 Qi/rrciis. 



Chrysalis somewliat glossy as in Sphinx ocellata, densely rngose ; olypens and 

 frontal tnbereles rather prominent ; fifth and si.xth abdominal sternite with a small 

 smooth place at each side ; cremaster rough, ending in two points. 



Hab. South Germany (Bavaria), southward to Spain, Central Italy, Greece, 

 S. Russia, Caucasia, Asia Minor, and Mesopotamia. 



In the Tring Mnseum 2 pupae, 4ti odd specimens. 



240. Marumba indicus. 



*Siiieriiill,ux liullitis Walker, List hep. Ina. B. .1/. viii. p. 254. n. 17 (185(1) (N. India ; — Mu.s. Brit.); 



Boisd., .S>ec. Ghi. Lep. Net. i. p. 45. n. M (1875). 

 Tripl:;i„u imiicu, Butler, 7'raH.s-. Zonl. Sm: Lmid. i.\. p. 588. n. 18 (1877) ; Cot. & Swiiili., ^'»/. .Unt/is 



Iml. i. p. 27. n. 150 (1887) (rnctian Mus. 1 spec.) ; Swiiili., Cat. Lep. Hit. Mux. Ox. i. p. 27. 



D. 104 (1892) (India), 

 *Triptnciuii reHiVniea Moore, Prn: Zoid. Sue. Lund. p. .388 (1879) (N. India ;— Mus. Dublin); 



Waterh., Ahl Lieut. Lis. ii. t. 140. f. 5 ((J) (1883) ; Cot. & Swinh., Qil. Moths Lid. i. p. 27. 



n. 149 (1887). 

 Triptoijun hidkiim, Butler, Jlliistr. Typ. Spi;}m. Lrp. Ilet. H. .V. v. p. 1.3. t. 81. f. 2 (1881). 

 Mariimhii (?) hidiciiiii, Kirby, Cat. Le/i. Ilet. i. p. 708. n. 27 (1892). 

 Pnh/plyrlws di/nis, Hampson (mm Walker, ISal'i), in Blanf., Fuiinn Brit. Iiid., Mnths i. p. G9. n. 91 



(1892) (partim). 



cJ. Tibiae with very few spines ; foretibia ending in a long thorn as in 

 Agnosia orneus. Antenna long and stout, similar to that of sperckius. Tenth 

 tergite separated into two rather slender lobes (PI. XXVI. f. 14) ; sternite rounded 

 at the sides, ai)e.\ pointed. Dorso-apical lobe of clasper pointed, curving downwards ; 

 hook of harpe strongly curved (PI. XXXIV. f. 17). 



? and early stages not known. 



Ilab. North India. 



In the British Museum, the Dublin Museum, and the Hope Mnseum at Oxford. 

 In the Tring Museum 1 S received iu exchange from the Hope collection. 



LXV. DAPHNUSA. 



Diiphiiiisu Walker, List Lep. fns. B. M. viii. p. 2.37 (185G) (partim ; type : ncellnih). 

 Smerinlhiis, Boisduval (mm Latreille, 1802), Sim: Gen. Lip. Ilet. i. 28 (1875). 

 Allvdiijihiiiisii Huwe, BerL Kid. Zeitschr. xl. p. 368 (1895) (type : ncellwiis). 



(J ?. Tongue very weak and short, the two halves filiform, separated, the fringe 

 not always developed. Pilifers closer together than in other Spliingidac, and 

 standing together with the triangular epistome on a kind of lobe or pedestal 

 (PI. LXII. f. 4) ; they are clothed with bristles and some scales ; genal process 

 {gp) high, triangular ; carina of labrnm short, high, almost tuberculiform. Palpus 

 smooth-scaled, large in S , second segment angulate laterally in a ventral view ; 

 end-surface in a plane with the frons, large, rhombiform ; joint open. Antenna 

 grooved in botlj so.xes ; distal segments (PI. LX. f. 7) narrow and short, the ventral 

 l)art conical, almost cylindrical ; the sensory cone at the tip of these {ffojections 

 long ; scales at apex of last segment long. Tibiae densely si)inose ; hind-tibiae 

 with one pair of short spurs ; pulvillus and paronychiiuu present, the latter with 

 two rather heavy lobes at each side. Abdominal tergites witli the underscales 



