1885.] ON LEPIDOPTERA OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 287 



5. On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and tlie Deccan. — 

 Heterocera. Part II. By Lf.-Col. C. Swinhoe, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. 



[Continued from p. 148.] 



[Eeceived March 5, 1885.] 



(Plates XX. & XXI.) 



HETEROCERA. 

 Sphingid^. 



1. Cephonodes hylas. 



Sphinx hylas, Linn. Mant. i. p. 539. 



Poona, November, February, and Mnrcb ; Sattara, June ; 

 Belgaum ; Bombay, Jnly ; var. S. cunninghatni also occasionally 

 taken in Bombay and Poona. 



2. Macroglossa gyrans. 

 Macroglossa gyrans, WaTker, viii. p. 91. 

 Poona, May; Bombay. 



3. Macroglossa belts. 



Sphinx belis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 94. f. C. 

 Belgaum ; Sattara, June ; Bombay. 



4. Nephele hespera. 



Sphinx hespera, Fabr. Sp. Ins, ii. pp. 152-54. 

 Poona, July, September, October, and November ; Sattara, June 

 and November ; Bombay, October, November, and December. 



5. Panacra vigil. 



Beilephila vigil, Gnerin-Me'neville, in Deles. Souv. Voy. dans 

 I'Inde, pt. ii. p. 80, pi. 23. f. 1 (1843). 



Poona, February ; Bombay, September. 



Larvae feed on the lettuce-tree, pupal stage from 7 to 19 days. 

 Tlie larva spins no silk whatever, but buries itself under the fallen 

 leaves at the foot of the tree wlien ready to turn chrysalis. 



Larva is light green, then light chocolate-brown ; some of the larvae 

 changed coluur just before transformation, some quite early, when 

 only an inch long : out of one lot of 7 that turned pupa, 27th, 29th, 

 30th October, 2nd, 6th, lltli, and 12th November, they emerged 

 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 29th November, and 1st December. 



6. Deilephila livornica. 



Sphinx livornica, Esper, Ausl. Schniett. ii. pp. 87, 196, pi. 8. f. 4 

 (1785). 

 Bombay. 



