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SPHINGID^E. 



Pupa. — Similar to that of C. e. nervosa. 



Habits. — Food-plant : Euphorbia Linn., family Euphorbiacese. 

 The larvae do not appear to live gregariously as in the case 

 of C. e. nervosa, the species of spurge on which they feed 

 not growing gregariously. 



145 b. Celerio euphorbiae nervosa Roths. & Jord. (Fig. 103, 

 imago ; PL IV, fig. 16, larva, fig. 17, pupa). 



Celerio euphorbise nervosa, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 721 (Sabathu,. 

 N.W. India) ; Jordan, 1911, p. 255 ; Seitz, 1929, p. 563 ; 

 Scott, 1931, p. 373, fig. 6 (larva). 



Imago. — <J$. Head and thorax olive, scaling of antenna 

 white ; palpus white, and a white lateral stripe from palpus 

 over eye to end of thorax, where it meets the white upper 

 border of the tegula ; abdomen olive with four alternately 

 black and white side -patches. Fore wing : costal area 

 clay- colour from base to near apex, broadly shaded 



Fig. 103. — Celerio euphorbise nervosa Roths. & Jord., $. 



with black behind from base to M 2 , then sinuate ; in this 

 sinus an indistinct black patch ; the patch beyond apex of 

 cell merged together with costal area, edged with black 

 behind ; veins traversing brown post-discal band white ; 

 a small white patch at base of wing ; median area pinkish ; 

 a broad, flesh-coloured marginal band, sometimes dotted with 

 black. Hind wing crimson, basal area and a narrow, scalloped, 

 submarginal band dark brown or blackish ; a broad marginal 

 band pink dotted with black. Underside of wings speckled 

 with brown ; cell of fore wing brown, the area ending in 

 a blackish patch ; disc of fore wing slightly pink, that of hind 

 wing pale pink. Expanse : ^2 68-87 mm. 



$. Harpe rather long, thin, slightly curved. The incrassate 

 dentate rim of the penis-sheath narrow, generally dentate 

 all along the edge. 



Hab. W. Himalayas (Ladakh ; foot of the Zoji-la Pass, 

 Kashmir ; Changla Gali ; Sabathu). We have bred the 



