244 SPHINGID^]. 



small, oval, bright purple. Length 45 mm. ; breadth 7 mm. ; 

 horn 8 mm. 



Pupa. — Slender, surface smooth and shining, colour dark 

 brown, paler on bevels of movable segments. Length 30 mm. 



Habits. — Eggs laid singly on leaves of Lonicera quinquelocu- 

 laris Hardw., family Caprifoliacese, a shrub resembling honey- 

 suckle. The larva turns reddish-brown before pupation, 

 which takes place in a rough cocoon on the surface among 

 leaves. Moths emerged in March from pupee formed in the 

 previous August. 



71. Hsemorrhagia rubra (Hamps.). 



Hemaris rubra, Hampson, 1892, p. 120 (Sind ; Gurais Valley ; 



Balta). 

 H senior 'rhagia rubra, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 459 ; Jordan, 1911, 



p. 249, t. 40 e. 



Imago. — $§. Antenna black ; palpus black at sides, white 

 below ; head and thorax dull olive-green ; abdomen black 

 clothed with olive doAvn above, second segment with a broad 

 white band, third to fifth segments each with a slight, white, 

 dorsal dash, fifth and sixth, segments with lateral white tufts ; 

 anal tuft black. Fore wing reddish-brown, base olive ; traces 

 of a pale, median, oblique band ; a dark-coloured marginal line. 

 Hind wing bright reddish-brown with a dark marginal line, 

 cilia grey. Underside of head, thorax and base of wings 

 whitish. Pulvillus very small ; ventral lobes of paronychium 

 vestigial. Expanse : £ 44-52 mm., 9 58 mm. 



$. Tenth tergite as in /. fuciformis ; sternite broader at end 

 and more obliquely rounded. Left clasper broader than in 

 /. fuciformis, not spatulate, harpe represented by an obviously 

 spinose hump ; right clasper feebly sinuate beyond middle at 

 ventral margin, process of harpe long and slender, with long 

 spines at and before end, equalling in length the diameter of 

 the process. Penis-funnel hairy at end, produced into a 

 slender lobe ; process of penis-sheath as in /. fuciformis. 



Hab. W. Himalayas (Sind and Gurais Valleys, Kashmir). 

 Early stages not known. 



Genus CEPHONODES Hiibner. (Fig. 64). 



Hiibner, 1822, p. 131 (part.) ; Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 460 ; id., 

 1907, p. 87 ; Jordan, 1911, p. 249. 



Genotype : liylas (Linn.). 



Imago. — <$Q. Head, thorax and abdomen yellowish, abdo- 

 men with a black and a dark red band, sixth tergite with 

 a black mesial patch ; wings hyaline. Resemble large humble- 

 bees, for which they might be mistaken. '" Genal process 

 large, high. Palpus pointed, terminal surface triangular. 

 Eye not lashed. Antenna very strongly clubbed in both 



