164 Col. C. Swinhoe on new Eastern Heterocera. 



XX. New Eastern Heterocera. 

 By Col. C. SWINHOE, M.A., F.L.S. 



Fam. Sphingidae. 



Genus PHYLLOSPHINGIA, nov. 



J . Palpi broadly scaled, upturned, and not reaching vertex 

 of head, which has a somewhat pointed crest ; antennae fasci- 

 culate ; thorax with sharp dorsal crest. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, outer margin oblique, evenly and deeply crenulate, 

 hinder angle lobed and the inner margin excised before it. 

 Hind wing with the costa excised to middle, then produced 

 upwards to a lobe ; outer margin deeply and evenly crenu- 

 late ; veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



Allied to Cypa, Walker, and Degmaptera, Hampson j 

 differs from the former in the broadly scaled palpi, the evenly 

 crenulate outer margins, and the excised lobed costa of hind 

 wing ; from the latter in the broadly scaled palpi, the evenly 

 crenulate outer margin, the less excised inner margin of fore 

 wing and costa of hind wing : and from both in veins 6 and 

 7 of hind wing being from angle of cell. 



Type P. perundulans mihi. 



1. PnyllospMngia perundulans^ sp. n. 



. Eosy chestnut-brown; shaft of antennse, upperside of 

 palpi, top of head, and a thin dorsal band on thorax dark 

 brown. Fore wings with the costa dark brown, broadly 

 brown on the basal third, and with some brown marks on the 

 apical third, from whence to the apex there are some whitish 

 suffusions ; the disk crossed by three or four very indistinct 

 brown lines ; a dark and bright chestnut band on fascia from 

 the middle of the cell, broad and lobed beneath the outer half 

 of the median vein, and haHway outwards beneath vein 4, and 

 another similar fascia nearly joining it from the outer margin 

 below the apex, its upperside limited by the whitish apical 

 suffusion. Hind wings coloured like the fore wings, with 

 indications of faint transverse bands. Underside brighter 

 chestnut- colour, the white suffusions near the costa towards 

 the apex being developed into white bands ; the hind wings 

 brighter coloured than the fore wings, being of a red-chestnut, 

 with a rosy- white band before the middle. 



Expanse of wings 4/Q inches. 



Jaintia Hills. 



