56 EUPTEEOTLD^.— SPHINGID^. 



Tagora murina, Moore. (Plate CXLI. fig. 18.) 

 Tagora murina, Moore, Ann. N. H. (4) xs. p. 347. 



Expanse ? 3| inches. 



Female. Ruddy brown, instead of gi'eyish fawn-colour as in male. Fore wing with two 

 small obliquely superposed transparent spots at the end of the cell ; the double outer line 

 nearly straight and not slightly convex as in the male. 



SPHINGID^. 



CH^nOCAMPlNM. 



Chserocampa theylia, Linn. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 1.) 

 Sphinx theyUa, Linn. Si/sf. Xat. xii. p. 803. 24. 



Larva (adult). Dorsal area brown, lateral whitish, ventral grey; a dorso-lateral ochreous 

 streak with darker outlines from first to end of third somite ; a lai'ge ocellus ou fourth 

 somite, ochreous, outlined in black and centred with pink above, black below ; a series of six 

 decreasing ocelli on an ochreous line from fifth to tenth somites, ochreous, outlined in black 

 and centred with brown ; the eleventh somite bears a short pale-coloured horn, which is thick 

 at base and rapidly runs to a point ; an ochreous streak from each side of the horn to the 

 posterior end ; numerous short dark brown strigoe on the dorsal and lateral areas from 

 the fifth to anal somite. Stigmata oiitlined in brown and somewhat inconspicuous. Legs 

 brown. 



Length 2^ inches. 



Feeds on Rubiacece of several species, Anotis, Hedyotis, &c. 



Chaerocampa rafflesii, Butl. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 3.) 

 Cha;rocampa rafflesii, Butl. Tr. L. Soc. 1870, p. 556, 



Larva (adult). Rich dark chocolate-brown; paired scries of some seven dorso-lateral 

 irregular ochrcous-whitc spots on the thoracic somites, increasing in size posteriorly ; a paired 

 series of seven dorso-lateral ocelli on fourth to tenth somites, the first largest, ochreous 

 white, outlined in black and centred with black spotted with ochreous, the other six centred 

 with brown ; the eleventh somite bears a long, straight, blunt horn, which is dark brown with 

 the tip ochreous, from the base of which two crimson streaks extend antero-latcrally, forming 

 a V-raark with black between the arms ; on each side of the anal somite is a crimson streak, 

 the two meeting posteriorly, with black between them ; a lateral band of numerous small 



