354 SPHINGIDiE. 



has bred it in S. China. Fairly common at an elevation of 

 2,000 to 5,000 feet. 



Egg. — Broadly ovoid ; surface smooth and shining ; colour 

 bright green. 



Larva : — 



1st instar. Green with a straight, black, bifid horn of medium 

 length. 2nd instar. Head and body green ; a pale subdorsal 

 stripe from segment 2 to base of horn ; horn black, of medium 

 length. 3rd instar. Head dark green with an obscure paler 

 stripe separating face from cheek ; body dark green with 

 a transverse row of small white tubercles along each secondary 

 ring ; a broad pale green dorsal stripe with a bluish stripe on 

 each side of it, formed of a line of dots on 2 to 6, then con- 

 tinuous to base of horn ; a subdorsal line of white tubercles 

 on the same segments, continuing as a broad white stripe to 

 base of horn ; a faint subspiracular stripe on 2 to 12 ; horn 

 straight, of medium length, dark purple with black tubercles. 

 4dh instar. Head dark green with a faint paler stripe down each 

 side of the dorsal line and along sides of clypeus ; a yellowish 

 stripe separating face from cheek ; body paler green ; the 

 stripe on each side of dorsal stripe formed entirely of white 

 dots ; subdorsal stripe formed of pale yellow tubercles ; horn 

 straight, of medium length, blue, with the tip yellow and 

 covered with black tubercles ; legs pale brown ; anal flap 

 yellow. 



5th instar. Shape the same as other macroglossine larva? ; 

 horn straight, of medium length. Head with moderately 

 shining surface. Body dull ; a transverse row of small 

 tubercles along each secondary ring ; one tubercle on each 

 ring, on each side of the dorsal stripe, larger than the rest ; 

 one tubercle in each row on the dorso-lateral line elongated, 

 spine-like on segments 2 to 6, shorter on the remaining segments 

 to base of horn ; horn covered with small tubercles. 



Coloration. — Clypeus dark green ; a yellow stripe on each 

 side of the dorsal line and along sides of clypeus ; a yellow 

 stripe separating face from cheek and meeting the other 

 stripe at base of antenna, the area between the two stripes 

 bright blue ; cheek dark bluish-green ; antenna reddish. 

 Body : segments 2 to 4 pale yellowish-green above the spiracles, 

 dark green below them ; rest of body pale bluish-green above, 

 the spiracles darker green below them ; the tubercles white 

 except the dorso-lateral line of spine-like tubercles, which 

 are yellow on segments 2 to 6, paler yellow on the other seg- 

 ments ; this line of tubercles bordered below by a bluish- 

 white stripe from 6 to base of horn ; a faint pale subspiracular 

 stripe from 2 to claspers. Horn bright blue, tip yellow, 

 tubercles black ; legs pink. Spiracles white with a very 

 broad black band across the middle, leaving only a dot at 



