( T22 ) 



area, less rouiid(.'d than iu cuiih. titlii/mali, more so than iti costata, edged witb black 

 behiud ; veins traversing discal band pale like median area as in costata, ; marginal 

 band pale. 



Vndi'ixide of wings speckled with brown ; cell of forewing brown, the area 

 ending in a blackish patch ; disc of forewing slightly pink, that of hindvving pale 

 pink. 



Ilab. Sabathu, N.W. India. 



Two c? (? in the British Museum. 



IJesombling (•i/jihorl)i<u' cox/ata : third abdominal segment without indication of 

 a black patch ; underside of wings more pink. 



k. C. e.uphorbiae codata (PI. IX. f. 10, ?). 



Sphinx {DetUphild) coshita Nordmann, Bull, Moscou xxiv. 2. p. 444. 1. 11. f. .1. 4 (18.51) (Kiachta). 

 DeihjMta coxlata, Staiidinger & Wocke, Cat. Lep. ed. ii. p. 37. n. 470 (1871) ; Butl., Tnins. Zool. 



Soc. Loud. ix. p. 569. n. 10 (1877); Graes., Berl. Ent. Zeit.-a-hr. xxxv. p. 211 (1892) (Raddefka, ^); 



Kirby, Cut. Lep. Het. i. p. 66.'). n. 10 (1892) ; Bartel, in Eiihl, GroissAm. ii. p. 95 (1899) (Gouv. 



Jeuisseisk and Irkutsk ; Kiachta ; Raddefka) ; Staud. & Reb., Cat. Lep. ed. iii. p. 103. n. 751 



(1901) (Kiachta ; " Amur false "). 



c? ?. We do not believe that this insect is specifically distinct. We have seen 

 only a few. Nordmann's figure is not very exact. Mesothoracic tegula with white 

 upper border. Body above and forewing deep cinnamon-brown ; abdomen with a 

 small brownish black side-patch on fourth segment as in dahU. Costal area of 

 forewing broadly brown, sharply marked, pmtch bej'ond ape.x of cell merged together 

 with it, narrower than in most forms of euphorh'me ; veins traversing brown discal 

 band pale as in nercosa and certain mauretanica ; inner edge of brown band more 

 straight behind than in the other forms of euplwvhiac. Hindwing below with the 

 black submarginal liand (so sharply marked iu Nordmann's figure) vestigial ; body 

 and wings with little red on the under surface. 



Early stages not known. 



Hub. Transbaikalia ; Kiachta ; Raddefka. 



In the Paris Museum I ? from Kiachta (Popoff), here figured. 



675. Celerio gallii. 



Sphinx gallii Rottenburg, Naturf. vii. p. 107 (1775). 



Drilephila ijalii, Walker, List Lrp. Inn. B. .1/. viii. p. 1G6. u. 4 (1856) (partiui) ; lioisd., iS/icc. Gin. 

 Lip. Hit. i. p. 169. n. 12 (1875). 



£??. Confounded with cuplwrhiac by the early writers. First protarsal 

 segment with the external row of spines comi)lete, double at base, the spines little 

 jirolonged. Pnlvillus present. Antenna above white only at end. 



(J. Harpe more curved than in euphorbiac. 



Early stages similar to those of eiiphorbiac. 



Larva very variable, with few dots on back ; pale spot near base of horn 

 always elongate : j)ronotal shield often cjuite red. — Food-j)lants : Epilobixm, 

 Asperula, etc. ; said to occnr also on Jiuphorbia. 



llab. Palaearctic and Neartic Kcgions, as far south as the Himalayas and 

 Cieorgia. 



Two sulispecies. 



The larvae Ibund on KHphorbin may be the product of hybridisation between 

 ijdllii and eiijiliorbide. 



