230 sphingid^:. 



thorax purple ; abdomen greenish, with a reddish- brown 

 dorsal line. Fore wing bright glaucous-green, with olive- 

 green markings and a patch of purplish-grey on inner margin ;. 

 two indistinct waved antemedian lines ; an oblique, nearly 

 straight olive-brown band from middle of costa to outer angle ;. 

 a spot at lower angle of cell ; two hum late postmedian lines 

 and one waved line ; outer area olive with some white on it ; 

 an oblique apical line white bordered with blackish-brown ; 

 white spots on outer margin. Hind wing brilliant crimson, 

 the base and a post-discal band extending to M 2 darker red ; 

 traces of a median line ; inner area brownish, marked with 

 grey. Underside bright orange suffused with red, the lines 

 of the fore wing at least partly red ; median line of hind wing 

 curved. Expanse : 132 mm. 



$. Tenth tergite (fig. 59 A) weak, pale, gradually narrowed 

 distad, apex more strongly narrowed and mesially feebly 

 sinuate, the surface more or less concave, rough, with bristle - 

 bearing tubercles distally, the mesial line raised to a kind of 

 carina ; the proximal part of this supra-anal plate (namely, 

 the ninth tergite) more strongly chitinized and densely clothed 

 with long hair-scales which project beyond the end of the tenth 

 tergite ; the tenth sternite reduced, without a lobe. Clasper 

 (fig. 59 B) narrow, rounded ventro-distally, produced into 

 a long and a short, curved, pointed process ; on a fold of the 

 clasper, dor sally of the harpe, there is a dense clothing of spine - 

 like bristles. Penis-sheath without armature. 



Hab. E. Himalayas (Sikkim ; Khasi Hills). Rare; early 

 stages unknown. 



64. Callambulyx junonia (But!.). 



Ambulyx junonia, Butler, 1881 B, p. 9, pi. Jxxx, fig. 2 (Bhutan) - r 



Hampson, 1892, p. 79. 

 Callambulyx junonia, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 310 ; Seitz, 1928, 



p. 543, t. 56 c (e). 



Imago. — $. Differs from r. rubricosa in having no white 

 shaft to, or band between, the antennas. Fore wing with the 

 ante- and postmedian lines obsolete ; the whole inner area 

 purplish-grey ; a large purplish-grey patch on outer margin, 

 the outline between it and the green at apex irregular. Hind 

 wing with a green line traversing the crimson beyond the cell ; 

 a large dark ocellus centred with grey below lower angle 

 of cell ; outer and inner areas brown. Underside greenish - 

 yellow, some crimson on disc of fore wing ; the markings 

 brown. Expanse : 104 mm. 



Tenth abdominal tergite flat, deeply sinuate, the lobes 

 diverging, their mesial edge depressed, so that their upper 

 surface slants inwards, each lobe with an inconspicuous 



