158 CATALOGUE OF 



Var. 8. (Java). Eeddish fawn-colour. Thorax with two ferru- 

 ginous stripes. Fore wings with the markings ferruginous instead 

 of brown. 



a — c. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



d. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



e. Java. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



/. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



Group 2. 



Fore wings deeply excavated on the exterior border near the 

 tip. 



6. Panacea Busiris. 



Cervina, subtus testacea ; caput magnum, conicum, subtus albidum, 

 disco viridi, lateribus subroseo trilineatis ; thorax lineis dua- 

 bus anticis et lateralibus undulosis subroseis, lateribus postice 

 fuscescentibus ; abdomen basi viride-fusco bivittatum ; alee 

 basi albido fasciculate ; antice subacuminate, basi oblique 

 fusee lineis nonnullis pallidioribus, fascia apud marginem 

 exteriorem latissima cervina nigro lineata fusco ex parte nebu- 

 losa, margine exteriore antice excavato postice perobliquo ; 

 postice obscure fusee, margine exteriore testaceo, subtus 

 virides aut cervine, 



Deilephila Busiris, Boisd. MSS. 



Fawn-colour, testaceous beneath. Disk of the head and of the 

 thorax green. Head large, prominent, conical, whitish beneath, 

 with three pinkish lines on each side above. Eyes large. Thorax 

 with two pinkish lines in front, and two along each side of it, the 

 lateral lines much curved; hind part brownish on each side. Ab- 

 domen green and with a short brown stripe on each side towards the 

 base. Wings with a whitish tuft on each at the base. Fore wings 

 slightly acuminated, brown, with several paler lines at the base, the 

 brown part much wider in front than behind ; a very broad fawn- 

 coloured band along the exterior border, freckled and interlined 

 with black and partly shaded with brown ; exterior border deeply 

 excavated and hardly oblique behind the tip, extremely oblique 

 from thence to the interior angle. Hind wings dark brown above, 

 mostly green or fawn-colour beneath, testaceous along the exterior 



