326 SPHINGID.E. 



Zonilia morpheus, Cramer, 1777, p. 84, pi. cxlix, fig. D (Coro- 

 mandel) ; Walker, 1856, p. 194 (Nepaul ; Landoor ; N. India ;. 

 Canara ; Ceylon). 



Nephele hespera, Butler, 1877 A, p. 624, pi. xci, figs. 20, 21 (1., p.) ; 

 Moore, 1882, p. 2, pi. Ixxii, figs. 1, 1 a, b (1., i.) ; Swinhoe, 

 1885 A, p. 287 (Poona ; Sattera ; Bombay) : id., 1886, p. 435 

 (Mhow) ; id., 1888, p. 119 (Kurachi) ; Warren, 1888, p. 293 

 (Campbellpore) ; Swinhoe, 1890, p. 165 (Mandalay) ; Hampson,. 

 1891, p. 2 ; Swinhoe, 1892, p. 34; id., 1892, p. 108 ; Dudgeon,. 

 1898, p. 416 (Sikkim, 1,800 ft.). 



Imago. — ^$. Fore wing with two silvery spots, separated 

 by D 3 , the second the larger, somewhat elongate and curved, 

 the first rounded ; there is, besides, often a small dot in upper 

 angle of cell. Expanse : $ 70-78 mm., $ 72-86 mm. 



Hab. Throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, extending to 

 Malaya. We have bred it in many localities in India, and it 

 is very common, especially in the plains. 



Egg. — Broadly ovoid ; surface smooth and shining, under 

 the microscope seen to be obscurely pitted ; colour pale green. 

 Length 16 mm. ; breadth 14 mm. 

 Larva : — 



1st instar. Head round, body cylindrical, horn straight, long r 

 bifid, the arms conical and each bearing a hair with a truncate- 

 bulbous tip ; body-hairs elongate-conical, with truncate- 

 bulbous tips ; horn covered densely with minute hairs ; head 

 and body honey-yellow, horn shining black, the base very 

 shortly red. 



Final instar. Somewhat choerocampine in shape. Head 

 rounded-quadrate ; true clypeus less than half length of head, 

 apex acute, basal angles slightly rounded ; false clypeus 

 forming a wide arch over apex of true clypeus, reaching to 

 one-half length of head ; labrum more than one-third length 

 of clypeus, the sides curving inwards ; ligula longer than 

 labrum, the lobes very broadly rounded, the sinus small, 

 rounded-triangular ; eyes with 1, 2, 3 and 4 equidistant in 

 a slight curve, 6 in line with 3 and 4, and 5 forming an equi- 

 lateral triangle with 4 and 6. Surface of head dull and 

 smooth. Body tapering somewhat sharply from segments 

 5 to 2, rest of body nearly cylindrical ; surface dull and 

 smooth. Horn rising from a conical tumidity ; long, stout, 

 tapering evenly to a blunt tip, from the dorsal surface of which 

 projects a short conical tooth ; basal half of horn slightly 

 down-curved, distal half straight. 



Coloration. — Head grass-green ; labrum green ; ligula dull 

 violet ; basal segment of antenna pale green, other segments 

 blood-red ; mandible yellow, tip dark reddish-brown ; eyes 

 brown. Body green, dotted closely with yellow ; a nar- 

 row violet dorsal stripe, touched with black at the front 



