436 SPHINGIDJE. 



the tip where it narrows sharply to a. point ; surface dull, 

 covered sparsely with small tubercles. 



Green form (PL V, figs. 18, 19) : head glaucous-green ; labrum 

 and ligula honey-yellow ; basal segment of antenna green, other 

 segments rusty ; mandible green with the tip reddish-brown ; 

 eye 1 whitish, the rest black. Body glaucous-green or yellowish- 

 green, speckled with darker green on segments 6 to 1 1 ; a nar- 

 row interrupted dark green dorsal stripe from 6 to base of 

 horn ; a large dorso-lateral shortly-oval ocellus on 5, pupil 

 dark green, with a pale blue stripe, edged with darker blue, 

 running horizontally across it ; the pupil edged with a broad 

 ring of primrose -yellow, at the lower edge of which is a narrow 

 crescent of crimson ; the whole edged narrowly with dark 

 green or black ; a small dorso-lateral, longitudinally oval, 

 pale yellow blind ocellus or spot, edged above with green, 

 on 6 to 11, sometimes wanting, sometimes on 6 only ; an 

 obscure whitish or yellowish dorso-lateral stripe, broken by 

 the yellow spots, from 6 to base of horn. Horn pale purple ; 

 true legs purple with a yellow band on the basal segment. 

 Spiracles pale earth-colour, edged in front and behind for 

 half their length with rose-colour or purple. 



In the dark- coloured form the green body-colour is replaced 

 by dull brown, and there are dark brown oblique patches 

 on segments 6 to 11. Length 85 mm. ; breadth 12 mm. ; 

 horn 9 mm. 



Pupa. — Head subquadrate, shoulders rather prominent ; 

 tongue-sheath not much projecting frontad but projecting 

 considerably ventrad, nearly semicircular in side-view, with 

 a narrow mesial channel ; antenna slightly longer than fore 

 leg, which reaches to about the middle of the wing-case, 

 mid-leg to two-thirds the distance to the tip; a narrow 

 coxal piece. Surface dull and smooth ; a deep palpal 

 depression at edge of tongue -sheath below eye ; front bevel 

 of segment 9 with four or five narrow, more or less parallel, 

 ante-spiracular ridges; similar but fewer ridges on 10 and 11. 

 Spiracle of 2 a narrow slit lying between the slightly raised 

 hind margin of 2 and a transverse, rounded-oblong, depressed 

 area running back from the front margin of 3, the whole 

 lying at the bottom of a deep depression ; remaining spiracles 

 elongate-oval, central slit with thick rim. Cremaster trian- 

 gular, broad and deep at base, ending in two slightly diverging 

 conical teeth, their bases touching, each tooth minutely 

 bifid at tip ; upper surface convex and coarsely shagreened, 

 lower surface concave ; under base of cremaster a wide, deep, 

 funnel-shaped depression runs axially forward into 14. Head, 

 thorax and wing-case soiled brown, with mottling of a much 

 paler shade, except on tongue-sheath ; abdomen bone-colour, 

 suffused and lined with soiled brown except on dorsum and 



