490 noctuidjE. 



margin ; a white speck in cell ; a postmedial broad chocolate band, 

 ill-defined on inner side, outwardly edged by a fine white line 

 excurved beyond cell, and sending long teeth inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; a broken submarginal sinuous black line. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous, with slight black marks near anal angle. 

 Hab. Murree ; Sikhim. Ewp. 40 millim. 



Genus SPHINGOMORPHA. 



Sphingomorpha, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 220 (1852). 



Type, S. chlorea, Cram. 



Range. Africa ; Aden ; throughout the Indian region ; Java. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, smoothly 

 scaled and somewhat thickened, the 3rd long and very slender ; 

 antennae of male with slight fasciculated cilia on underside ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; the tibiae fringed with hair ; the 

 fore tibiae clothed with tufts of immensely long hair in male. 

 Pore wing long and narrow ; the costa arched before the apex ; 

 the outer margin obliquely rounded, with the cilia crenulate. 

 Hind wing with the outer margin excised from vein 2 to anal 

 angle. 



2477. Sphmgomorpha chlorea, Cram. Pap. Riot, ii, pi. 104, fig. C ; 

 C. 8r S. no. 2593. 

 Sphingomorpha sipyla, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 222, pi. 21, fig. 4. 

 Sphingomorpha monteironis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi, p. 406. 



Head ochreous white, the basal joint of palpi dark brown ; thorax 

 dark brown above, with a broad ochreous-white stripe on vertex ; 



Fig. 276. — Sphingomorpha chlorea, <$. |. 



abdomen dark brown above, with a series of dorsal ochreous-white 

 spots. Fore wing red-brown with dark striae ; a pale patch at 

 base of inner margin ; an indistinct antemedial angulate line, an 

 irregularly waved medial line with pale outer edge, and sometimes 

 tinged with purple and rufous ; some vinous patches beyond it ; 



