356 SPHINGID^]. 



Coloration. — Head green, veined .obscurely with darker 

 green, the hairs brown ; a dull yellowish subdorsal stripe and 

 a bright yellow stripe separating face from cheek ; labrum 

 green, ligula pale yellow ; basal segment of antenna green, 

 other segments yellowish ; mandible green with dark brown tip. 

 Body grass-green, suffused strongly with glaucous below the 

 dorso-lateral stripe on segments 5 to 13, less strongly above 

 the dorso-lateral stripe on 9 to 12 ; indistinct oblique stripes 

 of the body-colour on 5 to 10, stopping at the dorso-lateral 

 stripe ; all the tubercles white, the larger tubercles forming 

 the white dorso-lateral stripe. Horn : basal half blue, next 

 quarter black, last quarter yellow ; legs pink, prolegs and 

 claspers green with the feet pink, ankles yellow, and on pro- 

 legs a shining black band above the ankle. Spiracles velvety- 

 black, the extreme top and bottom orange. Length 48 mm. ; 

 breadth 7 mm. 



Pupa. — The usual shape of Macroglossum pupae ; tongue- 

 sheath semicircular in profile, most prominent ventrad ; 

 tip of tongue spatulate. Surface shining and smooth except 

 for minute and irregular pitting on abdomen ; front bevel of 

 segment 9 very coarsely tuberculate. Spiracle of 2 a very 

 narrow, curved oval sunk between the raised front edge of 

 a transverse lobe projecting from the front margin of 3 and 

 a corresponding emargination of the hind margin of 2 ; 

 remaining spiracles narrow, parallel-sided depressed ovals 

 with narrow rims. Cremaster elongate -triangular, flattened 

 dorsally and ventrally, tip spatulate and ending in two 

 forked teeth. Colour pale greenish-brown ; wing-case suffused 

 with black ; a broad, greenish dorsal stripe, with diffuse 

 edges, on the abdomen ; hind margins of segments 9 and 10, 

 segments 12 to 14, and cremaster black ; spiracles reddish - 

 Ibrown ; venter of 9 to 13 blotched with black. Length 28 mm. ; 

 breadth 8 mm, 



Habits. — Food-plant : Rubia cordifolia Linn., family Rubi- 

 acese. Habits the same as for others of the genus. 



120. Macroglossum gyrans (Walk.). (Fig. 90 E, F, genitalia). 



Macroglossa gyrans, Walker, 1856, p. 91 (partim ; Madras; 

 Ceylon ; N. India ; Hindostan) ; Moore, 1882, p. 30, pi. xciii, 

 fig. 2; id., 1884, p. 234 (Cachar) ; Swinhoe, 1885 A, p. 287 

 (Poona; Bombay); id., 1888, p. 117 (Karachi); id., 1886, 

 p. 434 (Mhow) ; Hampson, 1892, p. 113. 



Macroglossum gyrans, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 634, pi. iv, fig. 6 

 (<?) ; Seitz, 1929, p. 557, t. 65/. 



Macroglossa zena, Boisduval, 1875, p. 337 (Simla). 



Macroglossa burmanica, Rothschild, 1894 A, p. 68, pi. v, fig. 3 

 (Burma). 



Imago. — $$. End-segment of antenna shorter than the three 

 preceding segments together. Upperside of head, thorax 



