14 SPHINGID^:. 



CLANIS * Hubner. 



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 being 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, antennae flesh- 

 coloured. Under surface sandy ochraceous : primaries slightly reddish in the cell; abroad 

 black interno-median streak ; indications of three slightly 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 ; fringe brown, 

 with yellow external edge. Expanse of wings 5 inches. 



Darjiling (Russell £f Lidderdale). 



* The type of this genus is C. nicobarensis of Schwarz, a species identical with Basiana phalaris ; 

 therefore Walker's genus Basiana will have to be cancelled. The Sphinx achemenides of Cramer (placed 

 in Clanis by Hubner) is an Oryba. 



