452 A.PPENDIX. 



82. Enpterote vialis. 



$ black-brown ; thorax with the tips of the hairs prominently- 

 white ; abdomen fulvous ; the oblique line very indistinct on fore 

 wing, obsolete on hind wing. 



85 a. Nisaga rufescens, Hmpm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 278. 



cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous; wings pale 

 rufous with a silvery-grey tinge. Fore wing with ill-defined ante- 

 medial, medial, and oblique postmedial dark rufous lines. Hind 

 wing with indistinct broad postmedial dark rufous band composed 

 of diffused lines. 



Hob. Shimoga, Mysore. Eccp. 50 millim. 



SPHINGID.E 

 Genus DEGMAPTERA, nov. 



Type, D. mirabilis, Eoths. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis. 



Differs from Polyptychus in the fore wing having the apex acute ; 

 the outer margin crenulate and produced to a point at vein 7 ; 

 the inner margin deeply excised before outer angle. Hind wing 

 with the costa slightly excised before middle, very deeply at 

 middle, and expanding into a large lobe before apex ; the anal 

 angle lobed ; veins 6, 7 hardly stalked ; 8 almost touching 7 near 

 its origin. 



92 a. Degmaptera mirabilis, Roths. Nov. Zool p. 542. 



Deep ferruginous red, variegated with ochreous and orange- 

 yellow. Fore wing with sinuous subbasal and antemedial lines 

 with yellow between them ; a fuscous-brown medial band from 



Fig. 240. Degmaptera mirabilis, $ . \. 



costa to vein 2 ; a small annulus at end of cell ; an obliquely 

 crenulate postmedial line ; traces of an irregularly crenulate sub- 

 marginal line ; the area at apex and between lower angle of cell 

 and outer angle variegated with ochreous and yellow and irrorated 

 with ferruginous. Hind wing deep red-brown, with traces of 

 red medial and submarginal bands. Underside variegated with 

 ochreous and irrorated with ferruginous ; both wings with distinct 

 postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 60 millim. 



