CHCEROCAMPIN^. 25 



one-half from base of tlie cell, two subcostal branclies from end of the cell, upper 

 much curved at its base ; discocellular deeply recurved outward, radial from the 

 middle ; the middle median at one-fifth and lower at two-fifths before end of the 

 cell ; submedian and internal slightly curved. Body stout ; palpi pointed in front ; 

 abdomen short. {Type, P. VigiL) 



PANACEA VIGIL (Plate 87, Fig. 3, 3 a, h, larva). 



Sphinx (DeilepMla) Vigil, Guerin, in Delessert's Voj. dans I'lnde, ii. p. 80, pi. 23, f. 1 (1843). 

 Panacra Vigil, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 270 ; Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 551. 

 Panacra lignaria (part), Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 156 (1856) ; Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. p. 288. 

 Sphinx phoenyx, Herr. Schaffer, Samm. Aussereurop. Schmett. pi. 83, f. 478 (1850-8). 



Dark greyish-brown : fore wing with a broad pale ochreous-grey band obliquely 

 undulating from apex to middle of posterior margin, the pale band traversed by four 

 slender wavy brown lines and inwardly bordered by a dark brown irregular fascia ; a 

 dark brown streak from the apex, and speckled lunular marks along exterior margin ; 

 costal area grey and brown speckled ; a black streak below the cell, a spot at end of 

 the cell, and base of lower subcostal branch bordered with pale ochreous-grey: 

 hindwing dusky brown, with a slight pinkish-ochreous lunular fascia bordered 

 outwardly with black. Cilia of both wings alternately pale ochreous-grey and dark 

 brown. Thorax above grey streaked ; side of thorax, head, palpi, and legs in front 

 lilacine-grey ; abdomen with dark brown dorsal streak and a lateral row of pale 

 ochreous-grey segmental streaks. 



Expanse 2| to 2f inches. 



Larva pale green, with a small round yellow blue-ringed ocellus, and a subdorsal 

 whitish-bordered blue-dotted green longitudinal line to base of horn ; spiracles small 

 and centred with reddish-brown ; horn purplish. Another stage : pale brownish- 

 ochreous, with more numerous and distinct dorsal dots, and prominent black-centred 

 ocelli. Pupa pale brownish-ochreous, indistinctly brown streaked ; spiracles blackish. 



"Feeds on Pisonia aculeata." 



Genus ANGONYX. 

 Angonyx, BoisduTal, Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. p. 317 (1874). 

 Forewing arched towards the end, apex acute, exterior margin oblique and 

 convexly angular below the apex, posterior angle pointed; first subcostal nearly 

 one-half and second at one-seventh before end of the cell ; discocellular inwardly 

 oblique, shghtly concave below the radial ; cell extending more than half length of 

 the wing ; middle median at one-fifth and lower at three-fifths before end of the 

 cell ; submedian and its basal branch much recurved : hindwing short ; apex very 

 convex, exterior margin angular towards the end ; cell short, upper end extending 



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