444 SPHINGIDiE. 



than the other two, and the three separated by pale brown 

 lines ; basad of the marginal band the colour becomes paler 

 in tone ; an inconspicuous pale brown stigma with a dark dot 

 in its centre ; cilia pink with brown tips. Hind wing as in 

 alecto but of a deeper shade of pink at anal angle ; cilia white. 

 Underside : thorax grey ventrally, pink laterally. Fore wing : 

 basal half wood-brown, this colour extending along costa to 

 apex ; marginal band as in alecto but of a much darker shade ; 

 between the basal Avood- brown area and the marginal band 

 a pale pink area, very narrow between SC 5 and R 2 , much 

 broader between R 2 and SM 2 ; cilia pink. Hind wing differs 

 markedly from alecto ; basal half and marginal band wood- 

 brown, the pink tone broad towards anal angle, narrow towards 

 costa. Expanse : 96 mm. 



Fig. 114. — Theretra mansoni Clark, $. 



Hab. Burma. Described from one badly damaged specimen, 

 a $, collected by Fellowes Manson. Early stages unknown. 

 There is a good female specimen in the British Museum 

 (fig. 114); the label bears the locality " Sikkim (0. M oiler)." 



162. Theretra suffusa (Walk.). 



Chserocampa suffusa, Walker, 1856, p. 146 (Hong-Kong) ; Butler,. 

 1879, p. 1, pi. xli, fig. 1. 



Theretra suffusa, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 778 ; Mell, 1922, p. 302, 

 pi. x, figs. 12-21, pi. xiv, figs. 9, 10, pi. xix, figs. 7, 8 (pupa), 

 pi. xxxi, figs. 13, 14 (larva) ; Seitz, 1929, p. 566, t. 67 d. 



Imago. — <J$. Closely allied to alecto. A greyish mesial band 

 from mesonotum to end of abdomen ; the latter brown 

 above, without black basal patch, an obscurely marked greyish 

 dorso-lateral stripe from segment 3 backwards. Fore wing 

 with lines 1 and 5 heavy, 2 fused with 1, lines 6 and 7 also 

 rather heavy, interspaces between 1 and 5 pale, between 5 

 and 6 dark. Hind wing with black basal area much more 

 restricted than in alecto, not dilated distad before abdominal 

 margin. Expanse : $ 80-90 mm., $ 102 mm. 



