408 SPHINGIDiE. 



147. Celerio nicaea lathyrus (Walk.). 



Deilephila lathyrus, Walker, 1856, p. 172 (N. India). 



Celerio nicsea lathyrus, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 727 ; Jordan, 1911, 



p. 256, t. 41 d ; Seitz, 1929, p. 563. 

 Deilephila euphorbias (Linn.), Hampson, 1892, p. 98. 



Imago. — <£$. Tegula without white upper fringe ; abdo- 

 minal sternites unicolorous ; under surface of legs nearly 

 as pale as upper surface ; pale median band of fore wing 

 densely speckled with brown. Pulvillus present. First 

 protarsal segment with external spines not prolonged, the 

 row doubled or trebled at base. Spines of comb of mid- 

 tarsus little prolonged. Expanse : $ 72-78 mm., 2 90 mm. 



(J. Harpe more strongly curved than in euphorbias, similar 

 to that of gallii. 



Hob. W. Himalayas, as far east as Naini Tal. 



Egg. — Spherical ; surface smooth and shining ; colour 

 green. 



Larva : — 



Final instar. Colour pale grey or leather- coloured ; a round 

 black spot on vertex of each lobe of head ; a series of large, 

 round subdorsal spots, red or yellow ringed with black 

 on segments 2 to 13, that on 12 longitudinally elongate ; 

 a series of similarly coloured, longitudinally elongate, sub- 

 spiracular spots extending on to venter ; horn black. Length 

 80 mm. ; breadth 11 mm. 



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



148. Celerio lineata livornica (Esp.). (PL XII, fig. 1, imago). 



Sphinx livornica, Esper, 1779. p. 88 (Hab- ?). 



Deilephila livornica, Swinhoe, 1884, p. 513 (Karachi) ; id., 1885 A, 

 p. 287 (Bombay) ; id., 1885 B, p. 346 (Quetta) ; Butler, 1886, 

 p. 379 (CampbeUpore) ; Swinhoe, 1886, p. 435 (Mhow); Warren, 

 1888, p. 293 (CampbeUpore); Swinhoe, 1888, p. 118 (Karachi) ; 

 Buckler, 1887, p. 42, pi. xxv, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; Hampson, 

 1892, p. 97, fig. 55 (<J). 



Celerio lineata livornica, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 732 ; Jordan, 

 1912, p. 257, t. 41 e ; Seitz, 1929, p. 563. 



Imago. — <£$• Antenna brown, tip white. Head and thorax 

 oh ve -green. Palpus white, and a white lateral stripe running 

 from palpus over eye to base of thorax, met by the white 

 upper fringe of the tegula ; abdomen pale olive-brown, 

 with black and white side-patches as in C. e. nervosa ; 

 fringe of abdominal tergites chequered black and white. 

 Fore wing : costal area pale olive-brown, shaded behind 

 with dark brown, and with a white patch in and another 

 beyond cell ; discal band pale yellow, both edges sharply 

 defined ; post-discal band brown ; marginal band purplish- 

 grey, dotted with black ; cilia of outer and inner margin white ; 

 veins white. Hind wing crimson, basal area and a broad 



