524 NOCTUID®. 
tibixe and tarsi rufous; abdomen rufous with the ventral surface 
white. Fore wing bright yellow, the terminal area rufous, the 
costal edge tinged with rufous; antemedial line pale greenish, 
oblique, slightly sinuous; an elliptical discoidal spot with flesh- 
coloured centre and rufous annulus; postmedial line pale greenish, 
excurved below costa, then rather oblique; the rufous terminal 
area defined on inner side by the dark somewhat punctiform sub- 
terminal line, angled outwards below vein 7 and inwards at discal 
~e 
Fig. 201.— Pseudelydna rufoflava, 3. 
and submedian folds, bent outwards to tornus ; the veins of terminal 
area with sligkt dark streaks ; a fine dark terminal line: cilia with 
some dark scales at tips. Hind wing fiery red, the interspaces 
somewhat semihyaline to beyond middle; cilia whitish at tips. 
Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing apple-green. 
Ab. 2. diurna. Head, thorax, and fore wing rufous. 
Hab. Puysas, Almorah (Boys), 1 ¢, 1 @ type; Bomsay, 
Kanara (Wise), 1 2 type diurna; Manpras, Belgaum (7. 2. Bell), 
24,2 92. EKvp. 38-40 millim. 
Genus SPHINGIFORMA. 
Sphingiforma, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 241 (1906) ............. . pratti. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to just 
above vertex of head, the 3rd long and somewhat dilated at extremity; frons 
smooth ; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with 
hair and hair-like scales and with slight ridge-like crest; fore and mid tibie 
slightly fringed with hair, the hind tibiw, spurs and first two joints of tarsus 
fringed with very long hair on both sides; abdomen very long, clothed with 
rough hair and without crests, with lateral fringes of hair curved over on 
ventral surface, the claspers very long and tufted with hair. Fore wing very 
long and narrow; the costa arched near base, the apex rounded, the termen 
very obliquely curved and not crenulate, the inner margin lobed at middle; 
veins J and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from the areole which is formed by 
9 from 10 anastomosing with 8; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen 
excised before tornus which is lobed ; the discocellulars strongly incurved and 
the angles of cell very much produced ; veins 3, 4, 5 from lower angle and 6, 7 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
