CLANIS.— PSEUDOSPHINX. 15 



Clanis deucalion. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 5.) 

 Basiana deucalion, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 230. n. 1 (1856). 



Primaries above with general coloration of the preceding species, but washed with greyish 

 more or less all over; the ground-tint also somewhat redder, almost flesh-coloured; markings 

 also very similar, but the lines across the basal area twisted together : secondaries reddish 

 testaceous, traversed by four ill-defined dusky undulated discal lines ; outer border washed 

 with grey towards anal angle ; a broad triangular hairy interno-median basal black patch ; 

 costa and fringe buff : thorax flesh-coloured, with the dorsal area pale ferruginous ; abdomen 

 whity brown, with the dorsal region pale ferruginous ; antennae flesh-coloured. Under surface 

 similar to the preceding species, but paler. Expanse of wings 4 inches 7 lines. 



North India (Mauger). 



But for the fact that the sexes of C. bilineata are well known to be alike in pattern and 

 coloration, it would be difficult to regard C. deucalion as a distinct species. 



Clanis cervina. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 6.) 

 Basiana cervina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ret. viii. p. 237. n. 2 (1856). 



Pale sandy buff; primaries faintly shot with pink and crossed by six sandy-yellow lines, 

 of which three are discal, parallel, and regularly undulated : secondaries with the subcostal 

 area broadly suffused with rose-red ; costa whitish. Under surface whity brown ; wings with 

 faint indications of the discal lines ; femora of front legs and base of palpi rosy. Expanse of 

 wings 4 inches 2 lines. 



North India and Madras. 



PSEUDOSPHINX, Burnt. 



Pseudosphinx nyctiphanes. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 7.) 



Macrosila nyctiphanes, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 209. n. 16 (1856). 



Primaries testaceous, washed here and there with grey, particularly at base and apex, 

 crossed by numerous dentate-sinuate and nearly parallel ferruginous lines ; submarginal line 

 dentate-sinuate, black, the second sinuation edged internally with white ; interspace between 

 the second and third discal lines (counting from apex) whitish towards the costa ; a whitish 

 or pale-yellow discoidal stigma with ferruginous edge ; several dusky subbasal spots ; fringe 

 alternately black and whitish ; three oblique black streaks below the median veins : secon- 

 daries purplish black ; costal area and a central streak composed of three or four laterally- 

 confluent hastate spots whity brown ; outer border pale brown ; fringe whitish, varied with, 

 black towards apex ; a whitish-edged subanal conical black spot : body greyish olivaceous 

 varied with reddish; thorax with interrupted black border; basal segments of abdomen 



