98 SPHINGID.E. 



Fore wing olive-green, with a black and white patch at hase ; a 

 white patch at lower end of cell ; an oblique whitish band from 

 apex to near base of inner margin ; a grey marginal band ; nervules 

 beyond the cell white. Hind wing pink, with the basal area black ; 

 a submarginal black band ; anal area white. 



Lawa black with numerous yellow dots ; head dull pink ; a pink 

 semicircular mark on 1st somite ; dorsal line yellow ; each somite 

 blotched with red and bordered with black, which expands into a 

 subquadrate patch on 4th to 10th somites; a series of semicircular 

 yellow ocelli on a subdorsal yellow line with pink centres ; horn 

 black, with red tip. 



Jink. Europe; N. Africa; Aden; X.AV. Himalayas; China. 

 E.*'jt. 74-94 millim. 



154. Dilephila euphorbias, Linn. Si/*f. Nat. i,pt.2, p. 802; Kirby, Eur. 



Butt. 8> Moths, pi. 18, %. 1 a (larva). 



Deilephila lathyrus, Wlh. Cut. viii, p. 172 ; C. # S. no. 110; Butl. 

 III. Het. v, pi. 80, fig. 1. 



Differs from Uvomiea in wanting the white lines from vertex of 

 thorax ; abdomen without dorsal marks and with the black and 



white lateral marks only on the first t\\o segments. Fore wing 

 with a \\liitisli band narrowing to the inner margin and rxl<Miding 

 on the costa from before the middle to the apex; speckled with 

 brown and sometimes \\ith a rosy tinge, and enclosing an oval olive 

 patch beyond the cell. 



The Himalayan form lutli ;//".< averages rather larger than the 

 European euphorbia!. 



Larva black, dotted with yellow; a dorsal red stripe; a lateral 

 red stripe spotted with yellow; a series of equal-sized yellow 

 ocelli. 



//nb. Europe; N. AY. Himalayas to Xaini Tal. Ri'p. (eupJiorbice) 

 60-80 millim., (lathyrtis) 76-82 millim. 



155. Dilephila gain, llofh. Natnr. vii, p. 107 (1775) ; Kirby, Ear. 



Butt. \ Mot hx, pi. IS. tir. 20 (larva). 



Differs from euphorbia? in the thorax having a black line above 

 the lateral white streak; the abdomen with white segmeutai specks 

 on the vertex, more or less joined by a white line ; the fifth and 

 sixth segments with prominent lateral white bands ; the 3rd seg- 

 ment in some specimens with a black band behind the lateral 

 white band. Fore wing with the oblique pale band not reaching 

 the apex, and the projections from it at centre and near apex not 

 reaching the costa. Hind wing with the submarginal black band 

 broader. 



Larva green, with a yellow dorsal line ; large black-ringed yellow 

 lateral spots on each segment; claspers and anal segment reddish; 

 ventral surface yellow. 



I /fib. Europe ; Gurais Valley, Kashmir, 6000 feet. Exp. $ 64- 

 72 millim., $ 84 millim. 



