426 SPHINGID^J. 



smooth surface. Horn straight, rather short and thin, tapering 

 gently to a blunt tip, minutely tuberculate. 



Coloration. — Head plumbeous with an olive -green tinge ; 

 labrum glassy-white ; ligula opaque-white ; basal segment 

 of antenna white, other segments reddish ; mandible white, 

 tip black. Body plumbeous tinged with olive-green ; segments 

 6 to 12 with a number of short dark lines across each secondary 

 ring, except on venter ; a narrow blue dorsal stripe ; a narrow 

 pinkish dorso-lateral stripe on 2 to 4 and from 11 to base of 

 horn and thence to tip of anal flap ; a greyish subspiracular 

 stripe, broad and well denned on 2 to 5, then narrower and 

 ill-defined to 12 ; a dorso-lateral, rounded ocellus on 5, 

 pupil with the lower half black, shading into rusty in the 

 upper half, in which there is a line of coalescent white dots ; 

 the whole edged broadly above, narrowly below with yellow 

 and ringed with black ; smaller ocelli on 6 to 11, decreasing 

 in size backwards, pupil yellow shading to rusty above, 

 ringed narrowly with black ; all the ocelli with a small 

 crescent of pale blue above the upper edge ; a small round, 

 subdorsal yellow spot mesially on 6 to 11, and a round blue 

 supra- spiracular spot on the same segments. Horn with base 

 pinkish, middle black, tip white ; legs pink ; venter sparsely 

 dotted with white. Length 55 mm. ; breadth 8 mm. ; horn 

 4 mm. 



The moths which emerged from the larva and pupa figured 

 on PL V, figs. 9, 10, appear to belong to this species, but 

 both the larva and the pupa are so different from the ordinary 

 larva and pupa of boerhavise that we think that further investi- 

 gation may show that they belong to a new species. 



Pupa. — Tongue-sheath projecting nearly as much in front 

 of head as in rafflesi, but directed more ventrad ; semi- 

 circular in side-view ; antenna equal to fore leg and reaching 

 to the middle of wing-case, mid-leg to two-thirds length of 

 wing-case. Surface moderately shining ; head and wing-case 

 smooth, thorax and abdomen shallowly transversely corru- 

 gate, abdomen also pitted. Spiracle of 2 indicated by the 

 front margin of 3 being depressed below the hind margin 

 of 2. Cremaster triangular, broad and deep at base, ending 

 in a needle-like shaft, simply pointed ; a small funnel-shaped 

 depression under base. Colour livid bone -colour ; thorax 

 tinted smoky laterally, and head, tongue-sheath and thorax 

 speckled with black ; inner margin of wing black ; abdomen 

 with dorsum pinkish, and an interrupted dark dorsal stripe ; 

 spiracles black, a pale area round each, pits rusty. Length 

 45 mm. ; breadth 9 mm. ; tongue-sheath projecting 5*5 mm. 

 in front of head. 



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

 Spermococe stricta Linn. ; 8. hispida Linn., family Rubiaceae ; 



