TKIPTOGON. 13 



Triptogon florale. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 1.) 



cJ . Ambulyx floralis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p, 639 (1876). 



? . Primaries above bright bluish green, with two oblique subbasal stripes and two 

 slightly divergent subangulated discal stripes sap-green ; outer border broadly washed with a 

 tint of silvery greyish, its inner edge defined by an undulated sap-green line ; inner margin 

 tinted with pinky brown, with a large deep rose-coloured tuft at base ; fringe yellow, tipped 

 with black : secondaries bright rose-red, with pale costal area and broad diffused green 

 external area, darkest at anal angle ; fringe yellow, dotted with black at the extremities of the 

 veins ; extreme base white : thorax bright velvety grass-green ; abdomen sap-green ; antennae 

 pink. Under surface green, wings crossed by two parallel silvery white discal stripes, 

 bounded outwardly by diffused sap-green stripes, the inner one of primaries abbreviated owing 

 to its passing into a broad carmine patch, which covers the basal three fifths of the wing 

 excepting upon the borders ; anal areas of both wings tinted with lilac-grey, the commence- 

 ment of the submarginal undulated line of primaries indicated in this colour : secondaries 

 with a third oblique white stripe near the base. Expanse of wings 4 inches 8 lines. 

 Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



The only female known previous to the arrival of the present one was so much faded as 

 to render its definition impossible ; it had become yellow in tint on both surfaces. It is 

 probable that fresh examples of the male would show a similar uniformity of colouring in the 

 primaries to that exhibited by the female. 



Triptogon indicum. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 2.) 

 Smerinfchus indicus, Walker, Cat. Lejo. Het. viii. p. 254. n. 17 (1856). 



Primaries above brownish grey, with an olive-brown apical external patch ; four lines 

 across the basal area (the second very indistinct), two across the middle, the outer one sub- 

 angulated, widely diverging from the inner one towards the costa, and followed by traces of 

 a third parallel to it, and a very sinuous discal line, all pale olive-brown ; a blackish dot near 

 external angle ; fringe grey, spotted with black : secondaries pale ferruginous, whitish on 

 costal border ; a white anal patch crossed by a dark ferruginous streak ; fringe grey, with two 

 or three blackish spots : body brownish grey. Under surface altogether paler ; palpi ferru- 

 ginous, anterior coxae reddish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 



North India. 



