448 SPHINGID^]. 



Dark- coloured form : the green colour is replaced by- 

 orange on the head, terra-cotta on the body ; the oblique 

 stripes, formed of yellow dots, more conspicuous than in 

 the green form ; horn black ; other markings as in the green 

 form. Length 86 mm. ; breadth 12 mm. ; horn 5 mm. 



Pupa. — Tongue-sheath prominent, semicircular in side-view, 

 directed somewhat ventrad ; the frons rising sharply from 

 base of tongue -sheath to a rounded transverse ridge running 

 from eye to eye ; antenna slightly shorter than fore leg, 

 which reaches to middle of wing-case, mid-leg to three- 

 quarters the distance to the tip ; a small coxal piece. Surface 

 dull ; tongue-sheath with a rnesial channel and a palpal 

 depression ; head, thorax and abdomen lined like cracked 

 lacquer, abdomen sparsely pitted and transversely striate ; 

 wing-case minutely rugose, veins prominent with a series of 

 low tubercles ; narrow, parallel ante-spiracular ridges on 9. 

 Spiracle of 2 in a deep triangular depression formed by a 

 sunken lobe projecting from the front margin of 3, the hind 

 edge of the lobe steeply rising ; remaining spiracles oval, 

 surface rising gently to the central slit. Cremaster large, 

 broad at base, sides converging first gently, then more rapidly, 

 tip squarely, broadly truncate, with a very small straight 

 spine at each lateral angle of the truncation, the spines directed 

 straight back and their bases widely separated ; upper surface 

 convex and coarsely irregularly longitudinally ridged, lower 

 surface concave ; segment 14 deeply axially hollowed under 

 base of cremaster. Colour soiled bone-colour, tongue-sheath, 

 wing-case and segments 12 to 14 suffused with blackish ; 

 abdomen suffused with rust-colour dorsally, venter brownish- 

 pink ; a narrow black ventral stripe on 9 and 10 ; lobe of 

 segment 3 rusty ; spiracles and cremaster black, the tips of 

 the spines minutely white. Length 48 mm. ; breadth 13 mm. ; 

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



Habits. — Food-plants : Dillenia pentagyna Roxb., family 

 Dilleniacese ; Vitis Linn. ; Leea Linn., family Ampelidese. 



The horn is movable in a vertical plane in all the instars. 

 We have not seen the moth in its natural state. 



164. Theretra oldenlandiss oldenlandise (Fabr.). (Fig. 115, 

 imago ; PL VI, fig. 4, larva, fig. 5, pupa). 



Sphinx oldenlandise, Fabricius, 1775, p. 542 (India). 



Chserocampa oldenlandise, Moore, 1857, p. 278, pi. xi, fig. 4o 

 (larva); Butler, 1877 A, p. 559, pi. xci, fig. 1 (larva); id., 

 1881 A, p. 613 (Kurachi) ; Forsayeth, 1884, p. 390 (Mhow ; 

 life-history); Swinhoe, 1884, p. 514 (Kurachi) ; id., 1885 A, 

 p. 289 (Poona ; Bombay ; Belgaum) ; id., 1886, p. 434 (Mhow) ; 

 id., 1890, p. 163 (Thyetmyo) ; Hampson, 1892, p. 87 ; Nurse, 

 1899, p. 513 (Cutch). 



