422 SPHINGIDJE. 



with a pale fuscous patch in front of ancUbehind each ; cremaster 

 bone-colour, tip dark brown. Length 48 mm. ; breadth 9 mm. ; 

 tongue -sheath projecting about 2 mm. in front of head. 



Habits. — Food-plants: Sesamum indicum Linn., family Pedali- 

 acese ; Monochoria hastsefolia Presler, family Pontederiacese. 

 The former is the food-plant in S. India, where it is grown as 

 a crop, and larvse are sometimes found feeding on it in large 

 numbers. The moth does not appear to be attracted by light. 



153. Hippotion rafflesi (But!.). (Fig. 105 H, I, genitalia ; 

 fig. 108, imago ; PL V, figs. 6, 7, larva, fig. 8. pupa). 



Cheerocampa rafflesi, Butler, 1877 A, p. 556 (Java; Canara) ; 



Swinhoe, 1885 A, p. 289 (Poona ; Bombay). 

 Isoples rafflesi, Moore, 1882, p. 19, pi. Ixxxiv, fig. 3. 

 Hippotion rafflesi, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 755; Mell, 1922, 



p. 283, pi. x, figs. 1-4 (larva), pi. xiv, figs. 1, 2, pi. xviii, figs. 51, 



52 (pupa) ; Seitz, 1929, p. 564, t. 67 c. 

 Cheerocampa theylia, Cram, (non Linn.), Hampson, 1892, p. 85. 

 Cheerocampa vinacea, Hampson, 1893, p. 57, pi. clvii, fig. 26, 



pi. clxxv, figs. 2, 2 a (1., p.) (Ceylon). 



Imago. — <£$. Darker and more brightly coloured than 

 echeclus, hody and wings washed with red ; palpus washed 



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Fig. 108. — Hippotion rafflesi (Butl.). 



with vinaceous, except a sharply marked white line on the 

 first segment along the eye. Fore wing with discal lines 1 and 

 2 merged together in a band which is anteriorly more promi- 

 nent than in boerhavise, the interspaces following paler, line 5 

 again heavier. Hind wing red, base not black, and no 

 pale subanal patch ; base often clayish- brown. Expanse : 

 S 56-70 mm., ? 60-70 mm. 



$. Tenth tergite (fig. 105 H) sharply sinuate as in echeclus, 

 the lobes rather shorter than in boerhavise ; sternite suddenly 

 narrowed to a sharp hook. Process of harpe (fig. 105 1) 

 short, rounded, with a short subterminal tooth nearly as in 

 echeclus ; a tuft of scales as in echeclus. Penis-funnel short, 

 triangular ; penis-sheath nearly as in echeclus, to 3 teeth on 

 right side and a row of teeth on left. 



