424 SPHINGID^]. 



the spiracles above it, from 5 to 12. Horn blackish, tip white ; 

 legs deep flesh- colour ; venter white with a violet ventral 

 stripe. Spiracles oval, pure white with a narrow black rim. 

 There is also a dark- coloured form of the larva (PL V, fig. 6) 

 in which the ground-colour is earthen- sepia, the dorso-lateral 

 stripe and the area below it pinkish, other markings similar to 

 those of the green form but darker. Length 70 mm. ; breadth 

 10 mm. ; horn 9 mm. 



The description of the larva of this species given in Roths. & 

 Jord., 1903, p. 756, is undoubtedly wrong, as it states that 

 the larva has seven ocelli. We have bred a large number of 

 larvse of rafflesi from different localities, and they were in- 

 variably as described above, with two ocelli. 



Pupa. — Rather slender in build ; tongue -sheath very 

 prominent, projecting a long way in front of the head, the 

 head and projecting sheath together being one -sixth the 

 length of the pupa ; tip of tongue spatulate ; antenna equal 

 to fore leg and reaching to one-half length of wing-case ; a long, 

 thin coxal piece ; apex of wing-case pointed. Surface 

 moderately shining, head, thorax and wing-case shallowly, 

 transversely corrugate ; a depression below eye near base of 

 tongue ; abdomen shallowly, transversely corrugate, the front 

 bevels and front margins of segments 9 to 14 also pitted. 

 Spiracle of 2 a narrow slit covered by a transverse lobe pro- 

 jecting from the front margin of 3 ; remaining spiracles 

 elongate-oval, surface rising slightly to the central slit, which 

 has a raised edge. Cremaster triangular, ending in a needle- 

 like, very shortly bifid shaft ; ventral surface with a deep 

 mesial channel ; surface smooth and shining. Colour pale 

 yellowish-brown, tongue and inner margin of wing dark brown ;. 

 sides of tongue -sheath, and legs speckled with black ; abdomen 

 with a brown ventral stripe, interrupted at segment margins ; 

 a blackish dorso-lateral dot on each segment ; spiracles black ; 

 cremaster brown, the shaft black. Length 50 mm. ; breadth 

 10 mm. ; tongue-sheath projecting 6*5 mm. in front of head. 



Habits. — Food-plants : Impatiens Linn., family Geraniacese. 

 The moths come readily to flowers and are also attracted by 

 light. 



154. Hippotion boerhavise (Fabr.). (Fig. 105 J, K, genitalia ; 

 fig. 109, imago ; PL V, figs. 9, 11, larva, figs. 10, 12, 

 pupa). 



Sphinx boerhavise, Fabricius, 1775, p. 542 (E. Indies). 



Hippotion boerhavise, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 756 ; Mell, 1922, 



p. 281, pi. ix, figs. 19, 20 (larva), pi. xiii, figs. 51, 52, pi. xviii. 



figs. 49, 50, pi. xix, figs, 1, 2, (pupa) ; Seitz, 1929, p. 564, t. 67 c. 

 Sphinx theylia, Cramer (non Linn.), 1779, p. 58, pi. ccxxvi, fig. E. 



(Coromandel). 



