C1LEE0CAMPA.— AMBULTX. 9 



Chaerocampa lineosa. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 7.) 

 Chaerocampa lineosa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 144. n. 28 (1856). 



Primaries above pinky brown, with olive-brown markings in the type*, bright sap-green 

 with olivaceous markings in fresh examples ; seven olivaceous stripes running from the inner 

 margin to the apex, the third and fourth being widest and indicating an oblique belt ;, a black 

 discoidal stigma : secondaries black, with an irregularly-notched discal belt and the fringe 

 cream-coloured ; costal border whitish : body sap-green ; sides of head and prothcrax pinky 

 white j abdomen with four parallel longitudinal dorsal grey stripes, sides greyish. Wings 

 below yellow, washed with red and speckled with black, with faint indications of two or three 

 greyish discal lines ; basal area of primaries streaked with black : pectus yellow, reddish at 

 the sides ; legs white, washed with green ; venter white, yellow at the sides. Expanse of wings 

 3 inches 10 lines. 



Silhet (Stainsforth) ; Darjiling (Lidderdale] . 



DEILEPHILA, Ochs. 



Deilepmla lathyrus. (Plate LXXX. fig. 1.) 



Deilephila lathyrus, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 172. n, 16 (1856) ; Boisduval, Hist. Nat. Ins. Lip. 

 Het. i. pi. 6. fig. 2 (1875), 



Primaries whity brown, irrorated with grey ; base snow-white ; a broad subbasal belt, 

 a patch just beyond the cell, two transverse subapical costal lunular streaks, and a discal belt 

 tapering from inner margin to apex, and limiting the external area, brownish olivaceous ; a 

 black internal spot occupying the inferior fourth of the subbasal belt; costa olivaceous-; 

 external area dusky internally ; fringe blackish : secondaries black, becoming brown towards 

 costa, which is white, outer border sordid white ; an irregular pale rosy discal belt becoming 

 abruptly white on abdominal area : body above olivaceous ; sides of head and thorax white ; 

 abdomen at the sides pale yellow, with two basal black patches. Under surface sandy 

 yellowish, the wings irrorated with fine grey striatums and tinted slightly with pink ; two 

 dusky discal lines, which unite beyond the median vein of secondaries : primaries with a dusky 

 spot at the end of the cell ; pectus white. Expanse of wings 3 inches 3 lines. 



Almora, North India. 



AMBULYX, Walk. 



Ambulyx junonia. (Plate LXXX. fig. 2.) 

 Allied to A. rubricosa, general coloration and pattern of primaries similar, but the basal 



* xis this coloration is simply due to fading, it is clearly incorrect to note it as a character of the 

 species. 



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