108 SPHINGIDiE. 



in this position the moth is a wonderful example of protective 

 colouring. The broad, clear-cut, parallel-sided ashy-pink 

 band runs across the wings and abdomen, dividing the insect 

 into a chocolate-coloured apical triangle and a distal trans- 

 verse trapeze of grey, pink and broAvn in a variegated pattern, 

 and produces the impression of two different objects uncon- 

 nected with each other. 



Attempts to breed this species at first failed, the males and 

 females refusing to pair. When captive females were exposed 

 at Karwar, on the low-lying coast, wild males never came to 

 them, although caterpillars had been found there. The 

 experiment was repeated at an elevation of about 1,500 feet 

 above sea-level, and during the course of four nights eight 

 males were captured, at about 3 to 4 a.m. One of the wild 

 males paired with a captive female after they had been left 

 together for several days, and the female laid eighty-eight eggs 

 on the 1st September and more on succeeding days, laying 

 over a hundred altogether. The eggs commenced to hatch 

 on the 7th September. The larvae pupated in due course 

 and a fine series of moths was obtained. 



17. Compsogene mansoni Clark. (Fig. 20). 



Compsogene mansoni, Clark, 1924, p. 17 (<$) (Sikkim). 



$. Palpi yellow, bordered with brown along the eye to the 

 tips. Fore wing dark brown, median area extending straight 

 across the wing basally more obliquely than in C. panopus. 



Fig. 20. — Compsogene mansoni Clark, J. 



On the costal margin it is 11 mm. in Avidth, thence it broadens 

 to a width of 16 mm. on R 1 . Between R 1 and R 2 it narrows 

 sharply to 6 mm. Its narrowest point is between R 2 and R 3 , 

 where it is but 5 mm. wide. From this point it broadens 



