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Male. Body hardly stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi short, 

 stout. Antennae minutely pectinated, longer than the thorax. 

 Abdomen oblanceolate, about twice the length of the thorax. Legs 

 short, stout ; hind tibias with two very short apical spurs. Wings 

 rather long, moderately broad, rounded at the tips. Fore wings 

 straight in front, distinctly denticulated, and very oblique along the 

 exterior border. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly ex- 

 cavated towards the interior angle. 



17. Smerinthus Indicus. 



Mas. Testaceus; palpi subtus et coxce anticce cervina ; alee anticce 

 lineis sex variis transversis obscure testaceis, plagaque apud 

 marginem exteriorem cervina ; posticce striga apud angulum 

 interiorem cervina. 



Smerinthus Indicus, Boisd. MSS. 



Male. Testaceous. Palpi beneath and fore coxee fawn-colour. 

 Fore wings with six various transverse darker testaceous lines, and 

 with a fawn-coloured patch on the exterior border. Hind wings 

 with a fawn-coloured streak by the interior angle. Length of the 

 body 9 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Group 6. 

 Structure of S. ocellatus. 



18. Smerinthus planus. 



Mas. Cervinus ; alee anticce fascia interrupta latissima pallide 

 fusca linea transversa obscuriore, gutta discali albida, lineis 

 duabus exterioribus transversis undulatis obscure fuscis striga- 

 que apud marginem exteriorem dilatata fusca ; posticce antice 

 rosece, ocello magno cyaneo-atro, 



Male. Fawn-colour. Fore wings with a very broad pale 

 brown interrupted band, which contains a whitish discal dot, and is 

 divided by a darker brown line ; two exterior undulating dark 

 brown transverse lines, and an irregular dilated brown streak along 

 part of the exterior border. Hind wings rosy in front of the large 

 black ocellus, which is bordered with blue, and has a deep black 

 outer ring. Length of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



a. North China. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



