252 CATALOGUE OF 



anticarum margo exterior incisuris quatuor; posticae apud marginem 

 exteriorem vix excavatae. Fcem. — Antennae serratae. Alarum anti- 

 carum margo exterior vix denticulatus, posticarum subinteger. 



Proboscis distinct, very short. Palpi short, stout. Antennae 

 much longer than the thorax. Abdomen more than twice the 

 length of the thorax. Legs stout, rather long ; hind tibiae with four 

 moderately long spurs. Wings long, rather narrow. Fore wings 

 straight along the costa, hardly acuminated at the tips, very oblique 

 along the exterior border ; interior border somewhat concave to- 

 wards the interior angle. Hind wings rounded and slightly trun- 

 cated at the tips, not convex in front. Male. — Antennae slightly 

 pectinated. Exterior border of the fore wings with four excavations 

 which successively increase in size towards the interior angle. 

 Hind wings very slightly excavated on the exterior border. 

 Female. — Antennae serrated. Exterior border of the fore wings 

 hardly denticulated, that of the hind wings almost entire. 



14. Smerinthus dentatus. 



Cinereus ; antenna albidce ; alee antica litura discali, fasciis tribus 

 nebulosis lineisque tribus obliquis fuscis, linea exteriore un- 

 dulata ; posticce apud marginem exteriorem fuscescentes, linea 

 apud angulum interiorem maculisque ciliaribus albis. 



Sphinx dentata, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 42, pi. 125, f. G. Fabr. Sp. 



Ins.ii. 43, 16; Mant. Ins. ii. 94, 18; Ent. Syst. iii. 1,361, 19. 



Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2376, 60. 

 Polyptychus dentatus, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 141, 1514. 



a. Nepaul. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 a, b. North India. Presented by Gen. Hearsay. 

 c, d. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 e. Silhet. From the Bev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



15. Smerinthus Timesius. 



Fuscus ; abdomen fascia basali maculisque pallidioribus ; aim an- 

 ticce apud marginem exteriorem obscuriores, fasciis quatuor 

 nigris duabusque exterioribus pallidis ; posticce nigro-fusca, 

 lunulis marginalibus albidis, basi, plaga apud angulum inte- 

 riorem vittaque discali pallide fuscis. 



Sphinx Timesius, Stoll. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. 172, pi. 40, f. 1. 

 Sphinx dentatus, var. P 



Tranquebar. 



