192 SPHINGIDJE. 



curved postmedian pink lines, the inner one waved near the 

 inner margin ; some diffused brown streaks near outer angle ; 

 a triangular brown-edged patch on costa before apex, with 

 a short white streak below it. Hind wing with a broad black 

 and narrow pink streak near anal angle. Expanse : 72 mm. 



Hab. E. Himalayas (Sikkim ; Khasi Hills). The $ and 

 early stages not known. This extremely rare insect was first 

 placed by Rothschild and Jordan in the genus Smerinthulus , 

 but it is now considered to be a Marumba. 



Genus DAPHNUSA Walker. (Fig. 42). 



Walker, 1856, p. 237 (part.) ; Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 283 ; id., 



1907, p. 56. 

 Allodaphnusa, Huwe, 1895, p. 368. 



Genotype : ocellaris Walk. 



Imago. — " <£?. Tongue very weak and short, the two halves 

 filiform, separated, the fringe not always developed. Pilifers 

 closer together than in other Sphingid^, and standing- 

 together with the triangular epistome on a kind of lobe or 

 pedestal ; they are clothed with bristles and some scales ; 

 genal process high, triangular ; carina of labrum short, high, 

 almost tuber culiform. Palpus smooth-scaled, large in <£, 

 second segment angulate laterally in a ventral view ; end- 

 surface in a plane with the frons, large, rhombiform ; joint 

 open. Antenna grooved in both sexes ; distal segments 

 narrow and short, the ventral part conical, almost cylindrical ; 

 the sensory cone at the tip of these projections long ; scales 

 at apex of last segment long. Tibiae densely spinose ; hind 

 tibiae with one pair of short spurs ; pulvillus and paronychium 

 present, the latter with two rather heavy lobes at each side. 

 Abdominal tergites with the under scales mostly long, spini- 

 form, but weak ; spines at the edges also long and weak. 

 Distal margin of wings entire, apex of fore wing emarginate 

 in $, often also in £ ; SC 2 and R 1 of hind wing on a long 

 stalk, from near centre of cell, D 2 not or slightly curved ; 

 frenulum and retinaculum present. Clasper without friction- 

 scales. 



" Larva (in Mus. Stettin). — Head large, rounded, thorax and 

 anal segments strongly tuberculate ; horn long, straight, 

 densely tuberculate. Green, a dorso- and a ventro-lateral 

 series of purplish-brown spots, fourth segment [segment 8] 

 almost entirely purple -brown, this belt produced backwards 

 dorsally, forming a large patch on fifth segment [segment 9], 

 a large divided dorsal patch on tenth [segment 14] " (Roths. 

 & Jord., 1903, p. 283). 



Hab. Indo-Malayan Subregion. One Indian subspecies. 



