RHODOPRASINA. 



199 



Key to the Species. 



Imagines. 



Fore tibia with a long thorn at end R. floralis (Butl.), 



[p. 199. 



Fore tibia without thorn R. callantha Jordan, 



[p. 200. 



The larva and pupa of floralis have not been described in 

 sufficient detail to enable keys to be made. 



51. Rhodoprasina floralis (Butl.). (Fig 45 A-C, genitalia). 



Ambulyx floralis, Butler, 1877 A, p. 639 (Darjeeling). 



Cypa floralis, Hampson, 1892, p. 72. 



Rhodoprasina floralis, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 293 ; Manson, 



1907, p. 241, fig. A (larva), B (pupa), C (<?), D (?) ; Seitz, 1928, 



p. 541, t. 62 a. 

 Triptogon florale, Butler, 1881 B, p. 13, pi. Ixxxi, fig. 1 ($). 



Imago. — <££. Antenna pink, head and thorax green, 

 abdomen olive. Fore wing with outer margin evenly curved, 

 tornus produced backwards as a broad lobe ; upperside 

 :green with a pink patch on base of inner margin ; a dark, 



p-F- 



Fig. 45. — Rhodoprasina Roths. & Jord. Genitalia. 



A, R. floralis (Butl.), $, 10th segment, ventral view ; B, clasper 



and harpe ; C, penis-sheath. 



oblique, postmedian hue ; some brown on veins beyond cell 

 and at outer angle ; hind wing bright pink, outer margin 

 "broadly olive ; cilia whitish tow T ards anal angle. Underside 

 green, fore wing with basal half except costa bright pink ; 

 an indistinct line beyond cell from costa to R 2 ; an oblique 

 white and green postmedian line ; an indistinct, lunulate, 

 submarginal line ; hind wing crossed by three straight 

 oblique lines, the first subbasal. There is no such line in 



