368 SPHINGIDJE. 



whole bevel. Spiracle of 2 a slit curving forwards, the hind 

 margin of 2 and front margin of 3 thickened and curved in 

 conformity with the slit ; remaining spiracles broadly oval. 

 Cremaster elongate triangular, tip emarginate -truncate, a 

 conical setiferous tubercle, directed straight backwards, at each 

 lateral angle of the truncation. Colour pinkish bone -colour ; 

 head, thorax and wing-case translucent ; tongue -sheath, 

 legs, antenna and wing-case transversely banded with leaden- 

 grey ; a narrow black dorsal stripe on head, vertex and thorax ; 

 dorsum of abdomen rusty, sides paler, pits rusty ; cremaster 

 reddish -brown, spiracles black, those on the abdomen lying 

 in quadrate black patches. Length 40 mm. ; breadth 11 mm. 

 Habits. — Food-plants : Saprosma indicum Dalz. & Gibs., 

 family Rubiaceae, and Strychnos nuxvomica Linn., family 

 Loganiacese, in S. India, and Hamiltonia suaveolens Roxb., 

 family Rubiaceae, in the W. Himalayas. The larvse closely 

 resemble those of affictitia in appearance and habits, and are 

 found in company with those of affictitia on the strychnine- 

 tree (nuxvomica). 



124. Macroglossum assimilis Swains. (Fig. 90 K, L, genitalia; 

 PL XI, fig. 11, larva, fig. 12, pupa). 



Macroglossum assimilis, Swainson, 1821, pi. lxiv (6*?) (Hab. ?) ; 



Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 638 ; Seitz, 1929, p. 557, t. 65 a. 

 Macroglossa bengalensis, Boisduval, 1875, p. 341 (Pondicheri) ; 



Hampson, 1892, p. 115 ; id., 1900, p. 40. 

 Macroglossa taxicolor, Moore, 1879 A, p. 387 (Ceylon) ; id., 1882, 



p. 29, pi. xc, figs 3, 3 a (1., p., i.). 

 Macroglossa belis, Hampson (non Linn.), 1892, p. 114 (Trinco- 



mali, $). 



Imago. — <^$. Similar to belis : dark side-patches of fifth 

 and sixth abdominal segments less black. Upperside : fore 

 wing with a whitish-grey flush, the antemedian band broader 

 behind, dilated basad at hind margin, first discal line 

 vestigial behind, second strongly angled at R 2 , concave between 

 R 2 and hind margin, interspace between the two lines filled 

 up ; subapical dark spot SC^-R 1 ovate, prominent, nearly 

 black, the grey costal space at its proximal side not sharply 

 limited behind, continuous with the grey submarginal area ; 

 the grey median interspace rather conspicuous ; yellow band 

 of the same colour as in belis, that is, deeper in tint than in 

 corythus and allies. Underside of abdomen and wings less 

 reddish than in belis. Expanse : <£$ 50-60 mm. 



<$. Tenth tergite truncate -sinuate ; sternite transversely 

 multicarinate on the upperside, raised in the mesial line, 

 appearing pointed in an apical view, apical half black. Clasper 

 with friction-scales ; harpe (fig. 90 K) elongate, spoon-shaped 

 at end, the small widened part dentate. Penis-sheath 



