14 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus DAPHNIS. 

 Baphnis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 134(1818-25) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 187(1856). 

 Forewing long, costa sliglatly arched ; apex acute, exterior margin oblique, 

 posterior margin deeply recurved ; cell extending to half the wing ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-third and second at one-eighth before end of the cell, fourth at one- 

 third beyond the cell, fifth immediately beyond the cell ; discocellular inwardly 

 oblique, concave below the radial ; middle median at one-fifth and lower at two-fifths 

 before end of the cell ; submedian and basal branch much recurved : hindwing 

 couvexly pointed at the apex, anal angle prominent ; cell extending to one-third the 

 wing ; a short oblique subcostal spur joined to costal at one-third from the base, two 

 subcostal branches on a short footstalk beyond the cell ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, radial from above the middle ; the middle median at one-sixth and lower at 

 three-sixths before end of the cell. Body very stout, fusiform, abdomen thick ; palpi 

 compact, rounded in front ; eyes stout ; antennse long, thick (D. Nerii). 



DAPHNIS NERII (Plate 82, Fig. 1, la, larva). 

 Spliinx Nerii, Linneeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 798 (1766) ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 224, fig. D. 

 Baphnis Nerii, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134 (1818-25); Stephens, Illustr. Brit. Lep. Haust. 



iv. p. 405 (1835); Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. p. 29 (1850); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. 



p. 188 ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. i. p. 272, pi. 10, f. 3, 3a. 

 Chcerocampa Nerii, Curtis, Brit. Ent. xiii. pi. 626 (1837); Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. p. 224. 



Green : fore wing crossed by a broad dark olive-green waved-bordered transverse 

 subbasal band, a similar coloured narrow discal band with the inner border ill-defined 

 and the outer border irregularly angulated, the apical area also olive-green with a 

 darker angular patch below the apex ; a circular basal spot ; medial and upper discal 

 interspaces between the bands very pale ochreous olive-green, suffused more or less 

 with pink, the lower discal area being piokish-grey ; a dark olive-green spot at base 

 of wing and some streaks traversing the pale medial area : hindwing dark olive- 

 green, basal area suffused with pinkish-brown; crossed by a medial slender undulated 

 pale fascia. Body ohve-green, with pale olivaceous-grey fringe to tegulee and 

 abdominal segments ; tegulse, a band on front of thorax, basal and anal segments, 

 and lateral oblique streaks darker olive-green ; thorax, head, palpi, and legs above 

 olive-grey ; antenna ochreous. 



Expanse 3|- to 4 inches. 



Larva green, with a prominent whitish bluish-bordered longitudinal lateral band 

 from sixth segment to base of horn ; the band traversed by white oval spots ; above 

 and below is a clustered series of white spots and others bordering the segments 

 over the back ; a large purple-centred black-ringed blind ocellus on side of fourth 

 segment ; spiracles small, black ; horn yellow. Before changing the larvee become 

 pale brownish-red, with the back, lateral ocellus, a spot on second segment, and the 



