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Genus DEILEPHILA Laspeyres. (Fig. 68). 



Laspeyres, 1809, p. 99 (part.) ; Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 505 ; id.,. 

 1907, p. 95 ; Jordan, 191.1, p. 249. 



Genotype : nerii (Linn.). 



Imago. — <£$. Large handsome moths, upperside green or 

 brown, marked with curved bands and triangles of different 

 colours. " Genal process triangular, obtuse, shorter than 

 pilifer. Head broad, somewhat crested transversely on 

 occiput. Eye large, not lashed. Palpus obtuse, large. 



W£ 



Fig. 68. — Deilephila Lasp. Genitalia. 

 A, D. nerii (Linn.), 10th segment, dorsal view; B, 10th segment, lateral 

 view; C, harpe ; D, penis -sheath ; E, <? vaginal plate (v, vaginal 

 orifice). F, D. hypothous (Cram.), harpe ; G, penis -sheath. H, 

 D. layardi (Moore), harpe. I, D. placida (Walk.), harpe ; J, penis- 

 sheath. K, D. minima (Butl.), penis-sheath. 



Antenna, <$ setiform, heavier than in Acosmeryx, somewhat 

 clubbed in $ ; hook rather abrupt and short, subseriate in 

 lateral aspect, end-segment prolonged into a long filiform 

 process. Spines of abdomen in several rows, elongate, weak ; 

 first tergite large. Hmd edge of mid-coxal merum sub- 

 cariniform. Tibia? simple ; spurs very unequal, long terminal 

 one of hind tibia much longer than second tarsal segment ; 



