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SPHINGID.E. 



Genus CALYMNIA. 

 Calymnia, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 123 (1856). 



Type, C. panopus, Cram. 



Mange. India ; Ceylon ; Java. 



Antennae gradually diminishing to a long hook. Fore wing 

 long, the costa curved, apex rounded and obtuse, the outer margin 

 oblique and excised ; the subcostals of hind wing from the angle 

 of cell; the discocellulars but slightly angled. 



102. Calymnia panopus, Cram. Pap. Exot. in, p. 50 ; Moore, L*-j>. 

 Ceyl. ii, pi. 81, tigs. 1, 1 a, 1 b (pupa and larva) ; C. Sf S. no. 186. 

 Calymnia pavonica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 596; C. fy S. no. 187. 



Head, thorax, and terminal segments of abdomen golden brown ; 

 the proximal segments pale. Pore wing purplish flesh-colour ; 

 some brown waved lines near the base ; then an oblique band ; 

 some waved brown lines from the costa to lower angle of cell ; an 

 oblique postmedial band; a highly waved and irregular whitish 

 submarginal line; a dark ocellus near outer angle. Hind wing 

 flesh-colour, the outer area brown ; the disk suffused with pink ; 

 antemedial, medial, and two postmedial lines, the last two angled 

 below the costa. Underside much mottled with yellow. 



Fig. 48. Calymnia panopus, J. }. 



The Andaman and Burmese form pavonica is much darker, 

 especially the basal segments of the abdomen. 



Larva grey and granulose, with a subdorsal yellow spotted line 

 from the head to the horn ; the 4th to 10th somites with oblique 

 yellow lateral stripes ; horn tubereulate. 



Hob. Throughout India, Cevlou, Burma, and the Andamans. 

 Exp., rf 132, $ 134 millim. 



