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SPHINGID^. 



Genus Phyllosphingia. 



Phyllosphingia, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6), XIX, p. 164(1897). 



Type. — P. dissimilis, Brem. 



Range. — Siberia, China, Assam. 



Palpi upturned, broadly scaled and not reaching vertex of head, 

 which has a somewhat pointed crest ; antennse fasciculate, recurved at 

 tip ; thorax with sharp dorsal crest. Forewing long and narrow ; 

 the outer margin oblique, evenly and deeply crenulate ; the outer 

 angle lobed, the outer margin excised before it. Hindwing with the 

 costa excised to middle, then produced upwards to a lobe ; the outer 

 margin deeply and evenly crenulate ; veins 6*7 from upper angle. 



Phyllosphingia dissimilis $ 



926. Phyllosphingia dissimilis. Brem., ' Bull. Acad,' Pet., 

 III. p. 475., and Lep. Ost. Sib., pi. 3, f. 12. perundulans, Swinh., 

 A.M.N.H. (6), XIX, p. 164. 



$. Red -brown, crest on head and thorax blackish. Forewing with 

 the basal costal area suffused with fuscous, the inner area and costal area 

 towards apex with gray ; an obscure dark line from costa before middle 

 to below end of cell then running obliquely to apex before which it is 

 incurved, the wedge-shape area between it and lower end of cell and 

 vein 4 dark rufous ; the area between apex of wedge and outer angle 

 fuscous-brown ; the apical part of outer area bright rufous ; a dark spot 

 on costa beyond middle ; traces of two pairs of postmedial lines meeting 

 towards inner margin. Hindwing with faint traces of postmedial lines; 

 some fuscous suffusion near upper angle of cell and anal angle. 

 Underside of forewing with three ill-defined whitish bands from costa 



