10 . SPHINGID^. 



third more broadly suffused with, grey; the apex of the same pale-green tint as the rest of the 

 ground-colour ; the external border wider in the middle, blackish, limited internally by a 

 sinuated, instead of undulated, black line and not spotted or clouded with silver-grey ; post- 

 median band barely indicated, the outer line sinuous and indistinct, the inner line only repre^ 

 sented by the discocellulars ; stigma small and blackish ; oblique stripe from costa to near 

 external angle less defined than in A. rubricosa : secondaries bright rose-red ; costal border 

 yellow ; outer margin lilacine grey ; anal half of abdominal border lilacine grey ; a large 

 rounded black patch, with pupil and crescent of lilac scales upon it, across the median 

 branches ; outer border of black patch bounded by a stripe of bright sap-green : thorax olive- 

 green, clouded with brownish ; antennae, apical half of tegulae, and fringe lilacine grey ; abdomen 

 sap-green, with a central longitudinal grey belt enclosing a black dorsal line and a series of 

 cuneiform grey patches on each side. Under surface bright chrome-yellow ; wings crossed 

 by two red-brown lines : primaries with a large diffused interno-basal rose-red patch ; a large 

 triangular grey discal patch which loses itself outwardly in the external border, which is 

 blackish; ^two subapical parallel squamose lines; a streak of marginal grey scales; costal 

 border sordid white : secondaries sordid white at base ; external border slightly greyish : sides 

 of pectus and base of venter greenish; legs grey. Expanse of wings 4 inches 2 lines. 

 Bhotan (Lidderdale) . 



Ambulyx maculifera. (Plate LXXX. fig. 3.) 



Ambulyx maculifera, Walker, 'Gat. Lep. Set. Svppl. v. p. 1851 (1866), 



Primaries above laky brown, washed with grey ; a small brown spot near the base of 

 costal border, two large rounded olive-brown subbasal spots, one costal the other internal, 

 and a similarly coloured spot on the costa opposite to the origin of the second median branch, 

 commencing an outline belt formed by two parallel zigzag brown lines which run to inner 

 margin ; a second belt formed by four blackish undulated discal lines which diverge widely 

 towards the costa, the two outer ones indistinct excepting at their extremities ; a stripe from 

 extremity of first median branch to apex, its inner half yellow, its outer half black ; marginal 

 line slenderly black ; veins red-brown ■: secondaries dull red, mottled with yellow, pale and 

 brownish at base and on abdominal area ; anal area sandy whitish ; a blackish transverse 

 stripe across the middle from subcostal vein to near anal angle, the commencement of a second 

 stripe or line parallel to outer margin near anal angle, its continuation indicated by undulated 

 congregations of blackish dots ; outer border dark laky brown : body lilacine grey ; head and 

 palpi whitish; crest, shoulders, and posterior borders of metathorax occupied by large 

 cupreous-brown patches ; segments of abdomen fringed with cupreous brown. Wings below 

 yellow, washed with burnt-sienna and mottled with laky brown and black : primaries with a 

 spot at end of cell, an undulated stripe beyond the middle, and three oblique subcostal dashes 

 towards apex lilac-brown ; outer border grey, limited internally by a purplish-black stripe : 

 secondaries with markings nearly as above. Body below flesh-coloured ; the coxa?, anus, and 



