278 SPHINGIDJE. 



shining black ; true legs and prolegs red-brown with a black 

 band ; anal flap and claspers black ; spiracles lying on a 

 greyish- brown patch ; other markings as in the green form. 

 Spiracles oval, blue-grey, with the central slit white. Length 

 80 mm. ; breadth 10 mm. 



Pupa. — Slender in build, head broadly rounded, with a 

 pointed process directed forwards ; eyebrows raised and promi- 

 nent and with the central projection making the head appear 

 three-pointed ; clasper-scars also prominent and with the 

 cremaster making the anal end also three-pointed ; antenna 

 equal to fore leg and reaching to half length of wing-case, 

 mid-leg to about three-quarters ; segment 12 of considerably 

 less diameter at its front margin than 11 at its hind margin, 

 the hind margin of 11 deeply undercut, as in the case of 

 Acosmeryx pupae. Surface rugose ; a pit at the angle formed 

 by the eye and the base of the antenna ventrally, as in the 

 pupae of Therelra ; legs and antennae not well expressed, costa 

 of wing prominent ; two deep pits behind the spiracle on 

 5 and 6. Colour soiled iron-grey dorsally, dark rust-red 

 ventrally, the bevels of segments 9 to 11 ochreous-brown. 

 Cremaster broad at base, triangular, with a simple point. 

 Length 50-57 mm. ; breadth 14 mm. 



Habits. — Food-plant : Ilex rotunda Thunb., family Ilicineae, 

 in Japan. The larva becomes reddish-brown before pupation. 

 The moth rests with the body parallel with the surface, the 

 wings held slightly below the horizontal. When disturbed the 

 moth presses its head against the surface and raises the body 

 at an angle to it. 



Genus AMPELOPHAGA Bremer & Grey. (Fig. 71). 



Bremer & Grey, 1852, p. 61 ; Butler, 1881 D, p. 104; Roths. & 

 Jord., 1903, p. 515 ; id., 1907, p. 97 ; Jordan, 1911, p. 250. 



Genotype : rubiginosa Br. & G. 



Imago. — <£$. Of medium size, upperside brown or greyish, 

 underside reddish. " Genal process triangular. Palpus rather 

 long, rounded in lateral and dorsal aspect, closely appressed 

 to head. Eye not lashed. Head with the scaling a little 

 raised to a rounded crest. Antenna very slender, filiform, 

 gradually fining distally, hook very gradual, end-segment 

 short, triangular or conical, about twice the length of the 

 previous segment. Spines of abdomen numerous, weak, pale. 

 Merum of mid- coxa not carinate behind ; tibiae not spinose ; 

 spurs very unequal, longer ones over half the length of the 

 first tarsal segment, this as long as the four other segments 

 together, and a little shorter than the tibia ; mid- tarsus with 

 comb of more or less prolonged spines ; pulvillus present, 

 large ; paronychium with two pairs of lobes. Wings entire. 



