26 SPHINGID.*:.— PSTCHID.E. 



nallv witli ochreous and whitish : secondaries more ochreous aud with tlie markings grey 

 instead of rufous brown : abdomen without a dorsal line. Expanse of wings 114 millim. 

 Solon, Himalaya. 



Said to be a rare species. 



Ambulyx rubescens. (Plate CXXI. lig. 2.) 



Dahira rubesceng, Moore, MS. 



Dahira rubiginosa, Jloorc, Free. Zool. Soc. ISSS, p. 391. 



Most like the A. eos group : primaries rosy brown with cupreous-browu apical border and 

 bands, the latter ill-defined, six or seven in number, four or five of which are undulated aud 

 cross the disc from the end of the cell to the apical border ; two or three basal spots, three 

 costal between the discal bauds, an oblique angular apical dash and a series of dots on the 

 fringe whitish grey : secondaries dark lurid orange, the abdominal half and margin dusky ; 

 abdominal and costal borders whitish ; fringe white : body purplish brown, the margins of the 

 antennae, eyes, and sides of abdominal segments whitish. Primaries below dull brick-red, with 

 grey external border tapering to apex and external angle and with undulated inner edge : 

 secondaries paler red, whitish on abdominal border, traversed from this border to the costa by 

 four equidistant slightly sinuous parallel deeper red lines : body below bright chrome-yellow ; 

 palpi reddish J legs greyish white, middle and posterior tibiaj reddish, posterior tarsi barred with 

 reddish ; venter reddish barred with segmental grey lines at the sides ; two series of reddish 

 spots ; anal claspers reddish with white bases. Expanse of wings 75 millim. 



Muudi, an iudependent native state in the Himalayas. Taken in ^lareii at sugar. 



Apparently most nearly allied to A. tnrbala; though slightly dill'ering in the contour of 

 the secondaries, it scarcely can be regarded as a distinct genus from Ambiihjx. 



The description of this species was prepared aud the Plate illustrating^it printed off before 

 Mr. Moore's paper was received, and therefore it has been necessary to retain the name written 

 by him on the type-label. 



PSYCHID^. 



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MAHASENA, Moure. 



Allied to Bambalina, IMoore, from Ceylon : costal vein of primaries terminating at second 

 third of costal margin; subcostal (piiuqueramose ; the first branch emitted from outer tliird 

 of the main vein aud reaching the costal margin just beyond the costal vein; second branch 

 emitted just before the end of the cell and terminating near to the apex ; third and fourth 

 l)ranches emitted from a long footstalk at the upper angle of the cell ; fifth branch emitted 

 close to the latter; discocellulars strongly angulated ; upper radial emitted from a little 



