CHCEROCAMPm^. 13 



the middle median at one-sistli and lower at one-half before end of the cell ; 

 submedian and internal vein nearly straight. Body large, very stout, abdomen very 

 thick, apes attenuated ; antennge moderate ; head small, projected in front ; palpi 

 pointed ; legs short, very thick. 



AMBLYPTfRTJS PANOPUS (Plate 81, Fig. 1, 1 a, h, larva). 

 Sphinx Panopits, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 224, fig. A, B (1782). 

 Amblypterus Panopus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmetfc. p. 133 (1818-23). 

 Smerinthus Panopus, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 13, pi. 6, fig. 2 (1847). 

 Calymnia Panopus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 124 (1856); Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. 

 p. 13 (1874). 



Pinkish brownish-ochreous : forewing crossed by a subbasal oblique straight 

 dark purplish-brown band, which is basally traversed by grey waved sinuous lines, a 

 discal parallel similar but narrower band with irregular suffused olive-brown outer 

 border, and a marginal olive-brown angulated. baud traversed by a blackish sinuous 

 line ; a brown spot at end of the cell ; the medial area of the wing crossed by grey- 

 bordered, brown more or less indistinct sinuous lines, and the discal area more or less 

 speckled with, brown spots and adorned with a large black, grey-centred, olive-brown 

 bordered ocellate spot before the posterior angle, the inner border of this spot 

 traversed by slender sinuous grey lines, which are continued indistinctly across the 

 disc and ascend parallel to the marginal angular band up to the apex of the wing ; 

 some grey-bordered blackish streaks on costa before the apex : hindwing with a 

 broad olive-brown outer marginal band, crossed by three discal sinuous darker lines, 

 the outer line and the veins being black ; the subbasal area pink and crossed by two 

 darker pink fascise. Thorax and head purplish ferruginous-brown, abdomen with 

 blackish dorsal spots, anal segments with a dorsal blackish band bordei'ed laterally 

 by ferruginous-brown ; palpi and legs beneath ferruginous. 



Expanse, S 4|, ? 6 inches. 



Larva grey ; granulose ; with a subdorsal yellowish-spotted line extending from 

 head to the horn ; fifth to last segment with a lateral prominent yellow oblique stripe ; 

 horn granulose. Pupa dusky purplish-brown, with paler segmental bands. 



" Feeds on Mangifera indica." 



Subfamily CHCEROCAMPIN.^. 



Imago generally with externally rounded palpi ; antennas generally rather 

 slender; eyes salient ; thorax large and prominent ; abdomen without an anal tuft. 



Larva with, the anterior segments retractile, the fifth somewhat abruptly broader ; 

 the fifth, and sometimes all the segments laterally ocellated ; horn variable ; head 

 rather large. (Butler.) 



