Vlll AUTHORS PREFACE. 



We have also used some paintings made by Indian artists,, 

 some under the supervision of the late J. Davidson, Esq., 

 I.C.S., and some under our own supervision. 



A Bibliography is included giving a list of the principal 

 literature of the subject. This should be consulted for 

 author and year to which reference is made under each species 

 in the body of the work. 



The principal works consulted by us, and repeatedly cited, 

 are as follows : — 



F. Moore, F.Z.S., ' The Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' vol. ii (1882). 



Sir George F. Hampson, ' Fauna of British India.- — Moths,' 

 vol. i (1892), vol. iv (1896). 



Professor Dr. Ernst Hofman, ' Die Raupen der Gross- 

 schmetterling ' (1893). 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild and Dr. Karl Jordan, "A 

 Revision of the Lepidopterous Family Sphingidse." 

 ' Novitates Zoologicse,' vol. ix, Supplement (1903). 



Richard South, ' The Moths of the British Isles ' (1907). 



The Rev. A. Miles Moss, " Sphingidae of Para, Brazil." 

 'Novitates Zoologicse,' vol. xxvii, pp. 333-424 (1920). 



Rudolph Mell, ' Biologie und Systematik der Sudchine- 

 sischen Sphingiden ' (1922). 



Adalbert Seitz, ' The Macrolepidoptera of the World,' 

 vol. ii (1911), vol. x (1928). 



Also numerous papers in ' The Journal of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society.' 



Hampson 's work was extremely useful in giving the first 

 description of Indian Hawk-Moths in a form available to 

 the public in India, but was entirely superseded on the 

 publication of Rothschild and Jordan's ' Revision ' in 1903. 

 This outstanding work is a complete monograph of the whole 

 family known to exist at the time of publication, and has 

 many plates of the moths and their structure ; later volumes 

 of ' Novitates Zoologicae ' give descriptions of some of the 



