DOLBINA. 



95 



patch of modified scales on clasper ; the latter small, very 

 strong ventro-basally ; harpe large, with broad ventro- distal 

 process and three rounded dorsal lobes. 



" $. Vaginal plate feebly chitinized, except at the large 

 vaginal cavity ; the edge of this cavitv armed with two 

 processes " (Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 159). 



Hab. W. and E. Himalayas to China and Japan. One 

 Indian species. 



15. Dolbina inexacta (Walker). (Fig. 18 A, imago, B-D, 

 genitalia ; PI. VIII, fig. 4, larva). 



Macrosila inexacta, Walker, 1856, p. 208 (N. India). 



Pseudo sphinx inexacta, Butler, 1877 A, p. 611 (N. India, Mussooree) ; 

 id., 1881 B, p. 16, pi. lxxxi, fig. 8 ; Sampson, 1892, p. 104. 



Dolbina inexacta, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 160 ; Mell, 1922, p. 59, 

 pi. ii, figs. 9-25, pi. xxii, fig. 3 (larva), pi. xiii, fig. 5, pi. xv, 

 figs. 20-22 (pupa), pi. xxii, fig. 4 (<J) ; Seitz, 1928, p. 532, t, 61 a. 



Meganoton hhasianum, Rothschild, 1894 A, p. 90 (Khasi Hills). 



Imago , — <£$. Head and thorax dark brown grizzled with 

 white ; - thorax with some white marks at sides and round- 



Fig. 18.— Dolbina Stgr. 



A, D. inexacta (Walk.) : B, clasper and harpe ; C, penis-sheath ; 



D, $, vaginal plate. 



vertex ; abdomen golden-brown above, brown at sides, 

 a black streak on the dorsum of each segment. Fore wing 

 variegated with grey, dark brown and golden-brown ; some- 

 what indistinct dark waved antemedian, median, postmedian 

 and submarginal lines, of which the median is the most strongly 

 marked ; a conspicuous white spot at end of cell. Distal 



