SMEBINTHIN^. 7 



Larva (Adult). Green, witli blue-bordered yellow oblique lateral stripes; 

 spiracles black ; head black striped ; horn with yellow tubercles. Pupa dark dusky 

 red. 



" Feeds on Datura.^' 



ACHEEONTIA STYX (Plate 76, Fig. \,\ a,h, larva). 



Acherontia Styx, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Ent. p. 88, pi. 42, fig. 3 (1847) ; Moore, Catal. Lep. 

 Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 266, pi. 9, fig. 1, la ; Boisd. Spec. Gea. Lep. Het. p. 6 (1874) ; Butler, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 597. 



Forewing black, grey speckled ; crossed by three antemedial, three postmedial, 

 and a submarginal black irregular sinuous line, the interspaces of the antemedial 

 lines dull red; a red narrow parallel streak between the veins from the cell to 

 exterior margin, and a red streak within the cell ; upper interspace of postmedial 

 and submarginal lines also red ; a yellow spot at end of the cell : hindwing ochreous- 

 yellow, with a narrow black medial and a submarginal band, the latter crossed by 

 black veins ; cilia with black linear streaks. Thorax, head, and palpi black, grey 

 speckled ; tegulae and thorax black streaked ; middle of thorax reddish-grey with two 

 black spots and indistinct lower streaks ; abdomen ochreous-yellow, with narrow 

 black segmental bands and greyish-blue dorsal band ; legs with black bands. 



Expanse, S 3|-, ? 4i inches. 



Larva (Adult), Green ; fifth to last segment darker spotted, and with a lateral 

 oblique yellow stripe ; horn yellow, tuberculated. Pupa dusky red. 



" Feeds on Solanum melongena, 8. trilobatum, Stachylarplieta indica, Goccinia 

 indica, &c." 



Subfamily SMERINTHIN.^. 



Imago with the head and thorax short and broad ; palpi small ; antennee of 

 male more or less pectinated. 



Larva rugose ; with the anterior segments tapering towards the head, which is 

 abruptly and decidedly larger, flattened in front, and angular above ; horn straight. 

 {Butler.) 



Genus GYPA. 

 Cijpa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xxxi. p. 41 (1864) ; Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. p. 52 (1874). 



Forewing elongate, triangular; apex slightly falcate; exterior margin very 

 oblique and irregularly angulated ; posterior margin concave at the end ; cell long, 

 upper end extending beyond half the wing ; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half 

 and second at one-twelfth before end of the cell, third terminating at apex, fourth 

 from below third at one-half beyond the cell, fifth from immediately beyond the cell ; 



