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and outer laostmedial line indistinct; a slight black short streak below the apex : 

 hind wing ferruginous-red, with slightly darker brown marginal border. Body greyish 

 purplish-brown ; sides of three basal segments ferruginous-red, anal segments black 

 streaked ; tuft black, fringed with white at the base. 

 Expanse ll to If inch. 



Genus CEPHONODES. 



CepJionodes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 131 (1818-25). 



Potidcea, Wallengren, (ifvers. Kongl. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. 1858, p. 139. 



Sesia (part), Fabricius. 



Forewing shorter than in Hemaris {E. fuciformis), costa much less arched 

 towards end, exterior margin long, very oblique, posterior margin shorter ; second 

 subcostal emitted immediately before end of the cell, fifth at some distance beyond 

 the end ; no scaled pseudo-vein emitted within the cell ; submedian much arched, its 

 basal branch confluent : hindwing broader, apex more rounded ; cell very short, 

 extending only to about one-eighth of the wing ; two subcostal branches on a long 

 footstalk beyond the cell ; discocellular inwardly concave, radial from the middle ; 

 two upper medians on a very long footstalk one-third beyond the cell ; lower at a 

 short distance before end of the cell ; submediau and internal vein curved. Body 

 large, broad, very compactly clothed ; palpi clothed with adpressed scales ; antenase 

 slender. {Type, C. Hjlas.) 



CEPHONODES HYLAS (Plate 93, Fig. 4 a, I, larva). 



Sphinx Sylas, Linnaeus, Mant. i. p. 539 (1771). 



Sesia Eylas, Fabricius, Eat. Syst. Hi. 1, p. 379 (1793) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 84; 



Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I.'c. i. p. 260, pi 8, f. 1, 1 a. 

 Ceplionodes Eylas, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 131. 

 Sphinx Ficus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 83, pi. 148, fig. B (1779). 



Wings transparent, hyaline, purplish-olivaceous ; the veins, costal border, and a 

 very slender apical band purphsh-black ; base of anterior and posterior margins of 

 both wings covered with olive-green scales. Body olive-green, anal segments 

 yellowish-ohve, the fourth and frequently also the fifth anal segment banded with 

 chestnut-red ; each segment more or less black margined and fringed with white ; 

 anal lateral tuft black ; palpi white, streaked with black in front ; legs ochreous- 

 white, streaked with brown above; tarsi brown. 



Expanse 2i to 2| inches. 



Larva. (Earhj stage)— Pale bluish-green; second segment yellow dotted; a 

 subdorsal black-dotted duplex line ; a lateral row of black transverse spots ; spiracles 

 and abdominal line, and legs brownish-ochreous ; head blue-green ; horn with black 

 granular dots. (Adult) — Brighter green, with a white-bordered blue dorsal line, and 



