ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF 



TYPE SPECIMENS 



OF 



LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



SYSTEMATIC LIST 



SPECIES COLLECTED BY Mr. G. F. HAMPSON 

 IN, OR RECORDED FROM, THE NILGIEI DISTRICT OP SOUTHERN INDIA. 



SPHINGID^. 

 MACROGLOSSINM. 



1. Hemaris hylas, Linn. 



N. slopes, 3500 feet. May. 



2. Hemaris cunuinghami, Wall-. 



Hemaris hylas (part.), Cotes & Swinh. 31. I. p. 2. 

 S. slopes, 3000-6000 feet. Apr. * 



3. Rhopalopsyche bifasciata, Buil. 



The plateau, 6000-7000 feet. Jan., Feb., June. 



4. Macroglossa insipida, Butl. 



The plateau, 6000 feet. 



5. Macroglossa affictitia, Butl. 



The plateau and slopes, 3000-7000 feet. May-Aug. 



6. Macroglossa vialis, Butl. 



The plateau, 6000 feet. 



7. Macroglossa gyrans, Walk. 

 The plateau, (iOOO feet. Aug. 



8. Macroglossa fervens, Butl. 



The slopes, 3000-4000 feet. March-Aug. 



9. Macroglossa belis, Cram. 



The plateau and slopes, 3000-7000 feet. May. 



10. Macroglossa taxicolor, Moore. 

 The plateau, 6000 feet. Aug. 



11. Macroglossa sitiene, Boisd. 

 The plateau, 6000 feet. 



12. Macroglossa gilia, Herr.-ScMff. 



The plateau, 0000-8000 feet. May-Aug 



13. Macroglossa imperator, Feld. 

 The plateau, 6000 feet. 



14. Macroglossa rectifascia, Feld. 

 The plateau, 6000 feet. Apr.-Aug. 



ClIMUO CAMFINM. 



15. Panacra vigil, Ouer. 



The plateau, 6000 feet. Aug. 



16. Panacra testacea. Walk. 

 The plateau, 6000 feet. 



17. Chaerocampa alecto, Linn. 



S. slopes, 3000 feet. 



18. Chaerocampa elegans, Biul. 

 W. slopes, 300 feet. Sept. 



* This species has the fourth segment of abdomen red and the anal segments green, while H. lujlas has the 

 third and fourth segments red and anal segments yellow, and the markings of underside of abdomen different. 



