MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGIDZ 639 
Subfamily AMBULICIN &. 
Genus AmMBULYX, Walker. 
AMBULYX FLORALIS, 0. sp. 
Allied to A. superba, but smaller, and clouded with bronze and green. 
3 shining bronzy clay-colour: primaries with the apical half of costal area, the 
central and internodiscal areas washed with green; subbasal area dusky olivaceous, 
limited externally by an oblique olive line, a second parallel line crossing the wing over 
the base of the first median branch; three ill-defined oblique waved lines, the outer- 
most, undulated, crossing the disk ; between the second and third a very indistinct diffused 
sinuous line; inner margin and the lines as they approach it blackish; a white-pupilled 
rounded black spot on the lower discocellular ; a tuft of rose-red hairs at the base of 
inner margin: secondaries with the basal two thirds rose-red; costal area whitish ; 
external third washed with green, especially towards apex, brownish towards the anal 
border; fringe for the most part white: head and collar brown, tegule and abdomen 
washed with green; antennz testaceous, pectinations brown; anterior tibie and tarsi 
above brown. Wings below much paler, testaceous, washed with pale green: primaries 
with the internodiscoidal area rose-red ; costal area greenish; a transverse brown litura 
beyond the cell; a transverse oblique, nearly straight white-bordered olive discal line ; 
a zigzag line nearer to the outer margin, becoming black towards inner margin; a sub- 
marginal series of spots, only distinct and blackish at the external angle: secondaries 
crossed by three parallel white-bordered olive lines; a squamose brown submarginal 
spot near anal angle: body below whity brown; palpi, pectus, and legs slightly dusky. 
Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 
2 much larger, altogether less lively in colour, the green colouring less perceptible. 
Expanse of wings 4 inches 11 lines. 
Darjeeling (Atkinson). Coll. O. Staudinger. 
One of the handsomest species in the genus. 
Subfamily SMERINTHIN &. 
Genus LrEvcoPHLEBIA, Westwood. 
LEUCOPHLEBIA DAMASCENA. 
Leucophlebia damascena, Butler, P. Z.S. 1875, p. 392. 
Sikkim (Whitely). Type, B.M. 
VOL. Ix.—PART x. No. 17.—November, 1876. 4Q 
