i)6 SPHINGIDJE. 



margin of fore wing almost straight in $, somewhat sinuate 

 before hinder angle. Hind wing bfown, cilia chequered brown 

 and white. Underside of abdomen with large black and white 

 mesial patches ; legs, breast and wings mummy-brown , con- 

 trasting strongly with the white scaling in the middle of meso- 

 and metasternum and at the edges of the abdominal sternites ; 

 the greyish-white tips of the tarsal segments and the tibiae 

 also conspicuous. Pilifer with a few bristles, no scales. 

 Expanse : 86 mm. 



<$. Tenth abdominal tergite flat, curved, short, medially 

 membranaceous to near the end, dilated before end, then 

 triangularly narrowed. Lobes of sternite farther apart than 

 in P. fequalis (fig. 16 D), shorter and more oblique. Ventral 

 process of harpe (fig. 18 B) dorsally rounded- sinuate, the tip 

 blunt ; dorsal process divided into a rounded, single, basal 

 lobe, and double distal lobe. Hook of penis-sheath (fig. 18 C) 

 long ; inner side of sheath with small apical patch of spines 

 ventrally. 



5 (fig. 18 D). The lobes at the edge of the vaginal cavity 

 stand in front of the cavity ; they are triangular and about 

 as long as the sinus between them is broad. 



Hab. W. and E. Himalayas and S. India, also China. 

 We have bred the species in the E. Himalayas and S. India, 

 where it is confined to wooded hills and is fairly common. 



Egg. — A nearly perfect ovoid ; surface smooth and shining ; 

 colour pale yellowish -green. Length 2 mm., breadth and 

 height 1-25 mm. 



Larva : — 



1st instar. Head round ; body cylindrical ; horn straight, 

 long, tip bifid ; anal flap tumid dorsally ; colour pale yellow, 

 horn reddish. 2nd instar. Head triangular, with a small 

 tubercle at the vertex of each lobe ; horn straight, of medium 

 length, with bifid tip ; colour of head green with a broad yellow 

 cheek- stripe from vertex to base of antenna. Body grass- 

 green, with a transverse row of pointed yellow tubercles on 

 each secondary ring ; large yellow dots on the subspiracular 

 line of 2 to 4 ; seven oblique stripes formed of yellow tubercles, 

 those on 5 and 11 better defined than the rest, that on 10 

 obsolescent ; horn dark red, tip black. True legs carmine 

 ringed with white. 3rd instar. Tubercles more prominent, 

 those on the oblique stripes multi -pointed. \th instar. 

 Horn straight, tip shortly bifid : head and body bluish-green, 

 the stripes white or yellow; horn green dotted with black, tip 

 black. 



5th instar. Head shortly triangular, a little higher than 

 broad ; true clypeus one- third length of head, each basal 

 angle with a small tumidity ; false clypeus with acute apex 

 reaching to one -half length of head ; labrum less than half 



