92 SPHINGID^E. 



the fore wing obsolescent ; the yellow submarginal band of the hind 

 wing narrow but continued to the costa. The form teyrota is 

 similarly coloured, but has a dark brown blotch on the antemedial 

 baud of the fore wing below the costa and blotches on the postmedial 

 lines ; the hind wing has the submarginal band broader, its outer 

 edge being denned by a black line. 



Hah. Sikhiin ; Sylhet. Exp. 68-88 millim. 



138. Chaerocampa castanea, Moore, P.Z.S. 1872, p. 507; C. $ S 



no. 57. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown, with lateral grey stripes ; 

 abdomen paler. Fore wing dark red-brown ; two faint antemedial 

 curved lines; two nearly straight post medial oblique lines; an 

 irregular grey marginal band. Hind wing uniform dark brown. 

 Underside red-brown ; each wing with two postmedial waved lines 

 and irregular dark border. 



Halt. Bombay ; Satara. E.rp. 66 millim. 



139. Chaerocampa helops, ink. Cat, viii, p. 180. 



Phikinpelus ork-ululis, Ft-ltl. Jiri*. Nov. pi. 77, fig. 1; C. $ S. 

 no. 130. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-brown ; thorax with a pale 

 lateral streak; abdomen with a pale patch on vertex of 1st segment 

 and black lateral patches on 1st two segments. Fore wing givy- 

 lirown ; a large olive-brown basal patch with a pale edge; a Mack 

 speck at end of cell, beyond which the area is suffused with brown ; 

 a subapical olive-brown patch, with a waved black line on its outer 

 edge continued as an obsolescent line to outer angle. Hind wing 

 smoky black, with a pale patch at anal angle. Underside ochreous, 

 suffused and speckled with black. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Penang ; Borneo. Exp. 116 millim. 



140. Chserocampa lucasi, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 141; Moore, Lep. E. I. C. 



pl. xi, lijis. 3, 3 a (larva and pupa) ; C. $ S. no. '.>.">. 

 Chserocampa tenebrosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 595; id. Lep. Ceyl. 



ii, pl. 80, fi-rs. -2, '2 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 96. 

 Chaerocampa rhesus, Boisd. Sphing. p. 254. 



Ochreous brown ; the antennae, front of head, and sides of thorax 

 paler. Fore wing with a black speck at end of cell ; two oblique 

 indistinct lines from near the apex to near base of inner margin ; 

 three similar lines from the apex nearly parallel to outer margin. 

 Hind wing smoky black, paler towards anal angle. Underside 

 with a slight rosy tinge. 



The form tenebrosa is darker on both upper and under sides than 

 lucasii, which again is darker than rhesus, but these differences are 

 varietal, not local. 



Larva brown with darker specks ; a pale lateral line on thoracic 

 somites ; an ocellus on 4th somite, which is white, centred with 



