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Subfamily Sphingikle. 



Genus Protoparce, Burmeister. 



162. P. convolvuli, Linn. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, up to 7,000 feet. It is a common insect 



attracted to light in June, July and August. The female differs 



from the male by the dark markings on the forewing and thorax 



being obsolete, and the antennae being much thinner and shorter ; 



that of the male being contained under 2^ times in the length of the 



forewing, and that of the female over three times. 



Genus Pseudosphinx, Burmeister. 

 166. P./o,Wlk. 

 Sikhim. I have never received this species. 

 169. P. discistriga, Wlk. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, up to 3,000 feet. It is found from May to 

 August, never commonly. The second form (P. melanomera) is the 

 only one I have seen from the locality. (I took a pair of this species in 

 copula sitting on the hot rocks in the Teesta Valley in August at 1 ,000 

 feet elevation. So far as my experience goes, however, Sphingidce 

 are not nearly so numerous in Sikhim as the number of species which 

 occur would lead one to suppose. Out of the 60 species recorded I do 

 not think I have seen more than ten in life during my four visits 

 there.— H. J. E.) 



Genus Apocalypsis, Butl. 

 171. A. veloxj Butl. 



Sikhim. Neither Mr. Elwes nor I have seen a specimen from 

 Sikhim. 



Genus Nephele, Hiibn. 

 172. N. hespera, Fabr. 



Sikhim. The only specimens I ha%ye seen of this species were taken 

 by me, one flying over a bed of Petunia in March, and the other at 

 light in April, at 1,800 feet elevation. The forewing of one is green, 

 and the double white spot at the end of the cell is conspicuous ; the 

 other is purplish-brown with the spot minute. Mr. Elwes has speci- 

 mens from as higti as 9,000 feet in Kashmir. 



