CHCEROCAMPINJE. 15 



head dull black ; tlie wliite lateral clustered sjDots showing out prominently. Forms 

 a loose leafy silky covering on the ground. Pupa pale brownish-red, with a black 

 line dividing the wing-cases, speckles on abdomen and large lateral spots. 



" Feeds on Oleander {Nerium odorum), and on Cinchona." 



DAPHNIS HYPOTHOiJS (Plate 83, Fig. 1, la, larva). 



Sphinx Hypotlioiis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 165, pi. 285, fig. F (1782). 



Daplmis Sypotlious, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134. 



Darapsa Hypothoiis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Tiii. p. 185 ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 



p. 271, pi. 10, fig. 2, 2a. 

 ChcBrocampa Hypothous, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. p. 226 (1874). 



Sap-green : forewing crossed by a broad subbasal dark sap-green curved- bordered 

 band, and a similar coloured discal band with an oblique straight inner border and 

 the outer border angularly produced towards the middle of exterior margin and 

 returning abruptly inward below end of the cell, and again angled acutely on the 

 submedian vein ; beyond this band is an outwardly oblique straight narrow sap-green 

 fascia, and on the exterior margin immediately below the apex is a triangular patch ; 

 a small circular basal area, medial and discal interspaces between the bands pinkish 

 olivaceous-grey powdered with sap-green scales, these scales also more prominently 

 forming a narrow bordering line to the bands ; a small black spot at base of wing, 

 and a transverse streak traversing the pale medial area : hindwing dark brownish 

 sap-green, the outer border dark pinkish-brown, crossed by a waved medial pinkish- 

 grey fascia which extends irregularly up the abdominal margin. Body dark ochreoiis 

 olive-brown; tegul^, two basal and the anal segment above dark sap-green, the 

 abdominal segments with a lateral oblique pale-bordered sap-green streak, the 

 segments also narrowly white fringed ; middle and front of thorax, head, and palpi 

 dark grey, legs and autennge greyish-ochreous. 



Expanse, S 31, ? 4 inches. 



Larva (early stage) pale green — changing to light red — with a subdorsal longitu- 

 dinal yellow band, below which are parallel bluish- white linear streaks and lower yellow 

 dots on sixth to eleventh segments ; a blue ocellated spot on fourth segment ; horn 

 smooth. Adult stage : brighter green, with a darker dorsal line, and a purple-red sub- 

 dorsal band bordered laterally by yellow anteriorly and by white from sixth segment, 

 the lateral spots oblong and prominent, the dots below deeper yellow, the spiracles 

 white, the ocellus blue ; front legs red ; horn purple-brown with white spiny tubercles ; 

 anal plate also purple-brown. Before changing the larvEe are suffused and blotched 

 with dark purple-brown. Forms a loose canopy of leaves. Pupa pale purplish-red, 

 with darker speckles, and large blackish lateral spots. 



" Feeds on Cinchona." {Thwaites.) 



