72 SPHINGID.E. 



95. Cypa ferruginea, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 42 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl ii, 



pi. 79, tig. 3 ; C. $ S. no. 78. 



Fore wing with the outer margin hardly angulated or crenulate 

 and more uniform in colour. 



C. decolor and ferruginea may prove to be varieties of the same 

 species. 



Hal. Ceylon. Exp. $ 60 millim. 



96. Cypa floralis, Butl. Trans'. Z S. ix, p. 639 ; III. Het. v, pi. 81, 



fig. 1 ; C. fy S. no. 138. 



Antennae pink ; head and thorax green ; abdomen olive. Fore 

 wing with outer margin evenly curved, green with a pink patch on 

 base of inner margin ; an oblique postmedial dark line ; some 

 brown on the nervules beyond the cell and at outer angle. Hind 

 wing bright pink ; the outer margin broadly olive ; cilia whitish 

 towards anal angle. Underside green ; fore wing with the whole 

 basal half except the costa pink, an indistinct line beyond the cell 

 from the costa to vein 5, an oblique white and green postmedial 

 line, an indistinct Bubmarginal lunulate line; hind wing crossed 

 by three oblique white and green lines. 



Hob. Sikhiin. Exp. $ 114 millim. 



Genus DAPHNUSA. 

 Daphnusa, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 237 (1856). 



Type, D. ocellaris, Wlk. 



Itani/t'. tSikhim ; Burma ; Borneo. 



The apex of fore wing more rounded and truncate ; the outer 

 margin straight and but slightly oblique ; hind wing with the apex 

 rounded ; the anal angle with a rounded lobe ; the outer margin 

 not crenulate ; the tuft on vertex of head highly developed. 

 Spurs very short, hind tibia? with only the terminal pair. 



SECT. I. Veins 6 and 7 of hind wing on a long footstalk. 



97. Daphnusa ocellaris, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 238. 



Daphnusa orbifera, Wlk. Joum. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 85. 



c? . Pale reddish brown or dark olive-brown ; collar and vertex 

 of thorax darker. Fore wing with two waved subbasal lines 

 angled outwards at vein 1, where they join an oblique aritemedial 

 band ; a crenulated postmedial baud with a large pale spot on it 

 at inner margin, the inner side having some red dentate marks 

 on it ; two crenulated sub marginal lines ; a chestnut patch on 

 the costa before apex. Hind wing red-brown, with some bright 

 chestnut lines above anal angle. Underside : fore wing with 



