SPHINGIFORMA. 525 
*6897. Sphingiforma pratti. 
Sphingiforma pratti, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool, xiii. p. 241 (1906). 
¢. Head and thorax black-brown with a greyish tinge; pectus 
whitish tinged with brown; legs brown mixed with white, the 
fore tibie and tarsi striped with white in front, the hind tibize 
streaked with white above at base, the hair on hind legs white 
tinged with brown; abdomen black-brown with a greyish tinge, 
the extremity and lateral fringes of hair white, the anal tuft 
rufous, the ventral surface white tinged with ochreous. Fore 
wing grey-white, the basal half suffused with fuscous brown, the 
apical half irrorated with brown, the costal edge white ; antemedial 
line very indistinct, double, very oblique from costa to submedian 
Fig. 202.—Sphingiforma pratti, 3. }. 
fold, then erect and slightly angled inwards on vei 1; a black 
discoidal point; a very indistinct, rather diffused dark medial line, 
very oblique from costa to vein 1 and bent inwards to inner 
margin ; an oblique quadrate fuscous patch on costa beyond middle 
with the very faint minutely waved postmedial erect line rising 
from it ; a very indistinct subterminal line with black points on the 
veins, angled outwards at vein 6 and ending at tornus; cilia 
whitish at base with dark line at middle, and red tips whitish 
towards apex. Hind wing fuscous black, the cilia whitish at tips. 
Underside of fore wing fuscous brown with the apical area 
greyish. 
Hab. Br. N. Gurtnea, Dinawa (Pratt), typef & in Coll. 
Bethune-Baker, Ekeikei. Hap. 58 millim, 
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