12 . SPHINGID^E. 



and costal area stramineous : head and thorax deep damson or plum-coloured ; a dorsal 

 ochreous thoracic streak ; antennae whity brown : abdomen greyish rose-colour, with central 

 longitudinal buff streak ; segments with deep ochreous hinder margins and whitish fringe. 

 Wings and body below almost as in L. bicolor. Expanse of wings 2 inches 5 lines. 

 Sikkim (Whitely). 



CTPA, Walk. 



Cypa incongruens. (Plate LXXX. figs. 8 & 9.) 



$ . Primaries above brownish grey, tinted with lilac ; subapical area whity brown ; veins 

 pale ; two curved stripes of dark brown across basal area ; a discal belt of the same colour, 

 limited in front by the subapical area and behind by the external border, interrupted upon 

 inner margin by a spot of the ground-colour ; an abbreviated costal streak on the subapical 

 area and a trisinuate line bounding the outer border towards the apex dark brown ; outer 

 margin narrowly rosy brown; fringe black, varied with cream -colour at the extremities of the 

 veins : secondaries ferruginous, with cream-coloured fringe : thorax greyish brown, becoming 

 ferruginous behind ; abdomen ferruginous, paler at the sides and behind. Under surface pale 

 flesh-colour ; wings with two slender grey discal lines, the outer one dentate-sinuate : 

 primaries washed with ochraceous excepting at apex and on external border, and broadly 

 clouded with ferruginous ; palpi below white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 5 lines. 



$ , Altogether redder, the markings of primaries less distinct ; the primaries and body of 

 an almost uniform colour throughout, more distinctly lilacine or violaceous in tint than in the 

 male ; markings below indistinct. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. 



$ , Darjiling (Lidderdale) ; § , Darjiling (Sadler). 



TRIPTOGON, Brem. 



Triptogon gigas. (Plate LXXX. fig. 5.) 

 Triptogon gigas, Butler, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 253. n. 38. 



Allied to T. sperchius, rather larger ; primaries above paler, excepting at the centre of 

 outer margin ; a blackish discoidal stigma ; four transverse well-defined basal lines : secon- 

 daries red-brown ; anal angle paler, with two obliquely-placed small dark-brown spots. 

 Primaries below with the central lines less distinct : secondaries whity brown, excepting at 

 anal angle, where they are tawny ; three nearly equidistant ferruginous lines. Expanse of 

 wings 5 inches 5 lines. 



Silhet (Stainsforth). 



