Sl'HIKGJFOEMA. 



525 



*6897. Sphingiforma prafcti, 



&phingiforma pratti, Betb .-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 241 (1906). 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown with a greyish tinge ; pectus 

 whitish tinged with brown ; legs brown mixed with w^hite, the 

 fore tibiae and tarsi striped with w^hite in front, the hind tibia? 

 streaked with white above at base, the hair on hind legs white 

 tinged with brown ; abdomen black-brown with a greyish tinge, 

 the extremity and lateral fringes of hair white, the anal tuft 

 rufous, the ventral surface white tinged with ochreous. Pore 

 wing grey-white, the basal half suffused with fuscous brown, the 

 apical half irrorated with brown, the costal edge white ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, double, very oblique from costa to submediau 



Fig. 202. — Siohhigifonna praiii, cT • 



fold, then erect and slightly angled inw^ards on vein 1 ; a black 

 discoidal point; a very indistinct, rather diffused dark medial line, 

 very oblique from costa to vein 1 and bsut inwards to inner 

 margin ; an oblique quadrate fuscous patch on costa beyond middle 

 with the very faint minutely waved postmedial erect line rising 

 from it ; a very indistinct subterminal line with black points on the 

 veins, angled outwards at vein 6 and ending at tornus ; cilia 

 whitish at base with dark line at middle, and red tips w^hitish 

 towards apex. Hind wing fuscous black, the cilia whitish at tips. 

 Underside of fore wing fuscous brown with the apical area 

 greyish, 



FTah. Br. N. Gui.xea, Dinawa (Pratt), type f d in Ooll. 

 Eethune-Baker, Ekeikei, Ecvp, 58 millim. 



