264 SPHINGIDiE. 



13. Colour of pupa green or grey, with darker [p. 300. 



markings ": Panacra Walk., 



Colour bone-colour, abdomen suffused [p. 327. 



with violet-brown Nepiiei.e, Hubn., 



Genus CHROMIS Hiibner. (Fig. 67). 



Hiibner, 1822, p. 138; Roths. & Jord., 1903, n. 503; id., 1907, 

 p. 95. 



Genotype : erotus (Cram.). 



Imago. — " <£$. Close to Deilephila, but end-segment of 

 antenna with very long bristles and without scales, the bristles 

 several times as long as the segment, which resembles the 

 Thereira- segment, but is longer. Genal process more sharply 

 triangular than in Deilephila. Hind tarsus very long, reaching 

 beyond tip of abdomen, when the leg is straightened out " 

 (Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 503). 



Hob. — Oriental Region. One Indian subspecies. For the 

 early stages see under C. e. erotus. 



77. Chromis erotus erotus (Cram.). (Fig. 67 A, $ ; B, D, 

 genitalia) . 



Sphinx erotus, Cramer, 1777, p. 12, pi. civ, fig. B (Hab. ?). 



Chgerocampa erotus, Hampson, 1892, p. 94. 



Chromis erotus erotus, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 504 ; Seitz, 1929, 



p. 547. 

 Chasrocampa erotus var. andamanensis, Kirby, 1877, p. 242 (Anda- 



mans). 

 Chasrocampa andamanensis, Waterhouse, 1884, pi. cxli, fig. 1. 



Imago. — ^$. Fore wing brown with a slight purplish suffusion 

 and clouded in parts beyond middle ; two indistinct, ante- 

 median, curved lines and two similar postmedian lines. 

 Hind wing bright orange-yellow with a diffuse reddish- 

 brown band, broad in the $. along the outer margin except 

 at apex and outer angle ; cilia reddish- brown. Throat and 

 first segment of palpus pure white. Eye large. Antenna 

 clubbed in both sexes, more distinctly in $ than in <$. Fore 

 tarsus (except distal segment) and fore tibia broad in £ ; 

 scent- organ of fore coxa very strongly developed. First 

 segment of hind tarsus longer than tibia, and in $ a little 

 longer than segments 2 and 3 together, in $ as long as seg- 

 ments 2 to 5. Expanse : $ 70-92 mm., $ 90-114 mm. 



$. Tenth tergite (fig. 67 B) strongly compressed, hooked, 

 dilated dorsad at the curvature ; sternite nearly like that of 

 Deilephila nerii in lateral and ventral aspect. Clasper with 

 more than twelve pointed friction-scales ; harpe (fig. 67 C) 

 ending in a long and pointed hook. Penis-sheath (fig. 67 D) 

 produced apically into a blunt process directed distad, bearing at 



