392 SPHINGIDJE. 



convex. Underside of abdomen chestnut-hazel, side of breast 

 and legs nearly the same, middle of breast and anterior tarsus 

 clayish-buff. Wings cinnamon-rufous, abdominal area of hind 

 wing more or less yellow. Expanse : <£$ 52-62 mm. 



c£. Tenth tergite convex at end, obtuse ; sternite rounded 

 at end. Clasperwith friction-scales ; harpe (fig. 91 O) slender, 

 gradually and slightly curving upwards, obtuse, feebly denti- 

 culate at end. Process of penis-sheath (fig. 91 P) relatively 

 short, obtuse, multidentate at end, teeth at base long. 



Hab. S. India and Ceylon. W. H. Campbell has bred the 

 species in the Nilgiris. 



Larva. — Head dull green ; body pale yellow with faint 

 blue transverse lines ; dorsal stripe dark blue edged with 

 pale blue from segments 4 to 14 ; a similar coloured lateral 

 stripe arising from two large black spots on 3 and ending 

 just in front of two large black spots on 14 ; a broad dorso- 

 lateral stripe, black spotted with pale blue ; horn pale blue 

 with a black ring at base ; legs black ; claspers spotted 

 with black (W. H. Campbell). 



Habits. — Food-plant : Photinia lindleyana W. & Arn., 

 family Rosacese. 



142. Macroglossum faro (Cram.). (Fig. 91 Q, R, genitalia). 



Sphinx faro, Cramer, 1780, p. 165, pi. cclxxxv, fig. C (Coromandel). 

 Macroglossum faro, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 665, pi. iv, fig. 14 

 (6*) ; Seitz, 1929, p. 561, t. 64/. 



Imago. — <£$. The largest Macroglossu m known. Resembling 

 passalus rectifascia in the dark base of fore wing, prominent 

 straight antemedian band, vinaceous-grey median area, feeble 

 first discal line, and in the dark band-like shade extending 

 from apex of fore wing to R 2 and then curving distad, ending 

 at distal margin before angle. It differs from passalus 

 rectifascia in the yellow abdominal side-patches being com- 

 paratively smaller, in the abdominal sternites, at least the 

 proximal ones, bearing large pale mesial patches, in the ante- 

 median lines of the fore wing being more distinctly separate 

 from one another, the second discal line being much thinner, 

 the interspace between the first and second discal lines not 

 being filled in with black anteriorly, and the black curved 

 submarginal shade being more distinctly band-like. In 

 addition, the underside is deeper brown, base of hind wing 

 obviously shaded with yellow, and upperside of thorax 

 (sometimes also first abdominal tergites) green without a 

 darker sharply defined area on the tegula. Expanse : ^$ 

 74-78 mm. 



c£. Genital armature similar to that of p. rectifascia, but the 

 harpe (fig. 91 Q) longer, with the tip more strongly recurved 



