316 SPHINGID^]. 



D 2 transverse, D 3 straight and very oblique, lower angle of 

 cell acute. 



ft $. Scent-organ of fore coxa strongly developed. Tenth 

 abdominal segment very long, narrow, simple, tergite com- 

 pressed especially at end, pointed, apex rather abruptly 

 curved downwards ; sternite with nearly parallel sides, 

 rather flat, evenly and slightly convex below, apex narrower, 

 sinuate, with the short angles curved upwards so that the 

 sternite appears hooked in lateral aspect. Clasper large, 

 concave dorsally, convex ventrally, broadly sole-shaped ; 

 an erect crest of moderately large friction- scales, lanceolate, 

 not truncate, about fourteen in number, arranged in a single 

 row, situated at the ventral side of an ellipsoid patch of small, 

 glossy, dentate scales ; inner surface of clasper densely 

 clothed with long hairs ; process of hafpe (fig. 80 B) small, 

 either triangular or slender and more or less spatulate or 

 lanceolate. Penis-sheath (fig. 80 C) with a right free process 

 curving vent r ad, often round the sheath, and a shorter left 

 process which is not separate from the sheath, both processes 

 dentate, their ends often close together. 



" $. Vaginal plate triangular, regular in shape, feebly 

 chitinized, apex rounded, edges incrassate, orifice at the 

 end of a stronger chitinized half-cvlinder " (Roths. & Jord., 

 1903, p. 543). 



Hob. Oriental Region. One Indian subspecies. Early 

 stages described under that subspecies. Both larva and 

 pupa are abnormal for the subfamily, reminding one more of 

 those of a Marumba of the subfamily Ambulichsue. 



105. Angonyx testacea testacea (Walk.). (Fig, 80 A, imago, 

 B, C, genitalia : PI. X, fig. 9, larva, fig. 10, pupa). 



Perigonia testacea, Walker, 1856, p. 102 (Hab. ?). 



Panacra testacea, Butler, 1877 A, p. 550 (Ceylon) ; Hampson, 

 1891, p. 1 (Nilgiris, 6,000 ft.). 



Angonyx testacea, Moore, 1882, p. 26, pi. Ixxxix, fig. 1 (<$) ; Hamp- 

 son, 1892, p. 101, fig. 58 (<?). 



Angonyx testacea testacea. Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 544 ; Seitz, 

 1929, p. 553 ; Manson, 1921, p. 748. 



Panacra ella, Butler, 1875, p. 246 (Sylhet) ; id., 1877 A, p. 550, 

 pi. xcii, fig. 7 (?). 



Imago. — $%. Head, thorax and abdomen dark green, 

 metanotum often russet. Fore wing dark green with a narrow 

 grey or white discal band not reaching costa ; most specimens 

 with black submarginal spots between R 2 and M 2 , often 

 extended to margin ; a waved submarginal line ; cilia black. 

 Hind wing blackish umber-brown, with a grey spot before 

 anal angle, sometimes with a clearly marked orange-rufous 

 band ; a broad, irregular, brown marginal band. Underside 



