44 STNTOMIDJE. 



bands at base and beyond middle. Fore wing black, with large 

 wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell ; an elongate patch below cell 

 and vein 2 ; large spots in the interspaces between veins 2 and 5 ; 

 an elongate spot above 6 and small spot above 7. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins, cost a, and terminal band black, the last narrow 

 at apex, then tapering to a fine line ; inner margin yellow. 



Hah. SiKHiM ; Assam ; Calcittta, type cuiireipennis ; S. India ; 

 Ceylon ; Burma {E. Y. Watson, L. de Niceville) ; Yunnan, type 

 fytchei ; Malacca ; Sumatka. Eonp. 26-32 millim. T}pe t libera 

 in Mus. Oxon. 



It may be an extreme form of imaon. 



30. Ceryx imaon. 



Sphinx imaon. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 94, pi. 248. E( 1780); Hmpsn. 



Motha Ind. i. p. 210; VVlk. i. 127 ; Kirby. Cat. Het. p. 92. 

 8ynto7ms fusiformis, Wlk. vii. 1595 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 102. 

 Syntcmiis approximata, Wlk. xxxi. 79 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 

 Syntomis sargania, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 92. 

 Syntomis artina, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 347 (1876) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 92. 

 Syntomis mota, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 134. 



Black ; frons yellowish or dirty white ; antennae white at tips ; 

 collar orange ; tarsi banded with white ; abdomen with two orange 

 bands, at base and beyond middle. Fore wing with wedge-shaped 



hyaline patch in end of cell ; an 

 elongate patch below the cell and 

 vein 2 ; a spot between veins 2 

 and 3 and larger spots in the 

 interspaces between veins 3 and 

 5 ; an elongate spot below vein 7 

 ^ ^ ^, . with smaller spot above it. Hind 



"^fi'ot-MXlX'ol^i;) '• -ins with hyaline spot below 



cell, in end ot cell, and usually 

 between veins 2 and 5, leaving a large black apical area running 

 obliquely across the wing ; inner margin yellow. 



Ab. 1. sargania, has an elongate hyaline streak between veins 5 and 

 6 of fore wing, sometimes reduced to a small spot. 



Ab. 2. artina^ the hyaline spot between veins 2 aud 5 of hind 

 wing is large, leaving, however, an oblique apical black area. 



Ab, 3. mota, this spot is absent, and in other specimens the spot 

 in the cell is reduced or absent. 



Ab. 4. A specimen from Ceylon has all the spots reduced and the 

 spot between veins 2 and 3 absent. 



Hnh. Hongkong {Harrington) ; Kangea {J. Hocking) ; Sikhim ; 

 Khasis ; Calcutta (J. Mothney), type artina ; Cachar ( W. Grant), 

 type sargania ; Bombay ; Nilgims {Hampson), type mota; Ceylon 

 (E. E. Green, J. Terhnry) ; Burma, Karen Hills {E. Y. Watson), 

 Tenasserim {L. de Niceville). Exjp. 24-42 millim. 



