14 SPHINGIDA, 
CLANIS *, Hiibner. 
Clanis pudorina, (Plate LXXXI. fig. 3.) 
Smerinthus pudorinus, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 253. n. 16 (1856), 
Basiana pudorina, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ix. p. 596 (1876), 
Primaries above brownish grey, crossed near the base by an olive-brown line; an ill- 
defined dark-edged irregular broad central belt, a subapical costal oblique dash, and a series 
of three or four dots upon the veins, also olive-brown: secondaries rose-pink, darkest on 
abdominal area; outer border slightly brownish ; an oblique abbreviated black line at anal 
angle ; thorax olivaceous, pinky brown at the sides ; abdomen pinky brownish. Wings below 
rosy, the primaries darker than the secondaries ; a faint subangulated submarginal red-brown 
line; marginal edge ferruginous : primaries with slightly yellowish costal border: body below 
corresponding in colour with the wings, the pectus beimg darker than the venter. Expanse 
of wings 2 inches. 
Almora, N. India. 
Clanis bilineata. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 4.) 
Basiana bilineata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1857 (1866). 
Primaries yellowish olivaceous, with external area broadly washed with grey; a bright 
diffused olivaceous belt cutting obliquely across the end of the cell and limited by the third 
median branch; a second transverse olivaceous belt, bordering externally the fourth transverse 
line, towards the costa; an apical costal cuneiform olivaceous patch limited externally by the 
submarginal line ; wing crossed by seven more or less undulated grey lines, the fourth to 
sixth discal, parallel, and regularly undulated ; submarginal line irregular and indistinct ; 
veins reddish : secondaries dull blood-red, with a large black interno-basal patch ; abdominal 
border pale silvery brownish; anal area greyish olivaceous; costa and fringe ochraceous : 
body sandy brown, thorax with a red-brown longitudinal central stripe, antenne flesh- 
coloured. Under surface sandy ochraceous: primaries slightly reddish in the cell; a broad 
black interno-median streak ; indications of three shghtly undulated dusky discal lines ; sub- 
apical costal area whitish, limited externally by a slender oblique dark-brown line from apex 
to second median branch ; fringe dark brown: secondaries whitish at the base; frmge brown, 
with yellow external edge. Expanse of wings 5 inches. 
Darjiling (Russell & Lidderdale). 
* The type of this genus is C. nicobarensis of Schwarz, a species identical with Basiana phalaris ; 
therefore Walker’s genus Bastana will have to be cancelled. The Sphinw achemenides of Cramer (placed 
in Clanis by Hiibner) is an Oryba, 
