HIPPOTION. 



415 



Pupse. 



1. Cremaster ending in two long, nearly 



parallel shafts, each with two hooks at tip 



and one on each side of middle H. velox (Fabr.), p. 417. 



Cremaster ending in a needle-like shaft, 



simply pointed ; a small funnel-shaped [p. 426. 



depression under base H. boerhaviee (Fabr.), 



Cremaster ending in a needle -like shaft with 



minutely bifid tip ; no funnel-shaped 



depression under base 2. 



2. Surface of pupa covered with extremely [p. 421. 



minute hairs H. echeclus (Boisd.), 



Surface without hairs 3. 



3. Tongue-sheath not much projecting [p. 420. 



frontad H. celerio (Linn.), 



Tongue-sheath much projecting frontad . . H. rafflesi (Butl.), 



[p. 424. 



150. Hippotion velox 



fig. 106, imago) 



(Fabr.). {Fig. 105 A-D, genitalia ; 



Sphinx velox, Fabricius, 1793, p. 378 (Hab. ?). 



Hippotion velox, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 749 ; Seitz, 1929, p. 563, 



t. 67 b. 

 Panacra lignaria, Walker, 1856, p. 156 (Ceylon). 

 Panacra vigil, Moore, 1857, p. 270 ; id., 1865, p. 793 (Bengal) ; 



Swinhoe, 1885 A, p. 287 (Poona ; Bombay ; descr. of larva) ; 



id., 1890, p. 163 (Rangoon ; Mandalay). 

 Chserocampa vigil, Hampson, 1892, p. 86. 



Imago. — <$Q. Very variable both in size and pattern. Head 

 and thorax brown, with pale lateral streaks ; abdomen 



Fig. 106. — Hippotion velox (Fabr.), <$. 



brown, with numerous dark strigae and pairs of pale lateral 

 strigae on each segment. Fore wing brown, with a whitish 

 or pinkish band from apex to middle of inner margin, sharply 

 defined costally ; or with a conspicuous black discal band ; 

 or with scarcely any lines. Hind wing smoky- brown, with 

 a trace of a darker submarginal line. Occasionally body and 

 wings washed with rosy-red. Expanse : $ 54-76 

 § 54-84 mm. 



mm.. 



