CH^EROCAMPA. 85 



towards apex. Underside with the whole of both wings, except 

 the costa and part of disk, suffused with pink. 



Typical elpenor= lewisii from Europe, Japan, and N.W. India is 

 smaller, with the pink on hind wing and underside rather less 

 developed ; in the form fraterna from the W. Himalayas the colour 

 is rather duller and the pink on underside more evenly disposed 

 over the disk of both wings than in the eastern form macromera. 



Larva brown or green, with numerous black strigae ; some indis- 

 tinct black dorsal lines on first two somites ; a black blotch on 

 third somite ; pale ocelli on black blotches on fourth and fifth 

 somites. 



Hob. Europe ; Japan ; Sind ; Himalayas ; Shillong ; Nagas ; 

 Manipur. Exp. (elpenor} 64 millim., (macromera} 80 millim. 



120. Chaerocampa alecto, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 802 (1767) ; a $ S. 



no. 83 ; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 137 D ; Butt. P. Z. S. 1880, 

 pi. 39, fig. 8 (larva). 

 Spninx cretica, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. 118. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; antennae and sides of 

 thorax whitish ; abdomen with a black lateral patch near base. 

 Fore wing pale brown, with a dark speck at end of cell ; six faint 

 oblique lines from near apex to inner margin. Hind wing pink, 

 with a large black patch at base ; outer margin black ; anal angle 

 flesh-colour, as is the underside. 



The form cretica, Boisd., from Turkey and Afghanistan, is paler. 



Larva green, speckled with yellow ; a dorsal green line ; a sub- 

 dorsal yellow stripe and series of yellow ocelli with green centres 

 on fourth to eleventh somites, decreasing in size posteriorly. 



Nab. Turkey; China; Formosa; throughout India and Ceylon ; 

 Borneo, Java. Exp. 9 3 90, $ 106 millim. 



121. Chaerocampa eson, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii, p. 57. 

 Chaerocampa elegans, Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 8, pi. 2, fig. 1 ; C. 8f S. 



no. 84. 

 Chzerocampa gracilis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 8, pi. 2, fig. 2. 



Differs from alecto in the abdomen having faint ochreous stripes 

 and wanting the black patches ; the black patch at base of hind 

 wing smaller. 



The form eson from S. Africa is rather broader and larger than 

 the N. African and Asiatic form. 



Hab. Throughout Africa ; China ; India ; Java ; Borneo. Exp. 

 70-90 millim. 



122. Chaerocampa theylia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 803 (1767) ; C. 8> S. 



no. 85 ; Moore, Lep. Ceijl. ii, pi. 84, fig. 5 ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, 

 pi. 175, fig. 1 (larva). 



Chserocampa ratflesii, Bull Trans. Z. S. ix, p. 550 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. ii, pi. 84, fig. 3 ; C. # S. no. 86 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, pi. 175, 

 fig. 3 (larva). 



