450 SPHINGIDiE. 



2 to 4, rest of body plumbeous with short black stripes across 

 the secondary rings ; a dorso -lateral line of spots on 2 to 4, 

 some yellow, some orange, continuing as a stripe formed of 

 small grey dots, interrupted by the ocelli, to base of horn ; 

 a broad, soiled, pale yellow subspiracular stripe from 2 to 12, 

 dotted with small black rings on 6 to 12 ; ocelli on 5 and 6 

 with a round black pupil in which lie two narrow, irregularly 

 concentric rings of electric blue ; this pupil edged narrowly 

 above, more broadly elsewhere with orange, at the top and 

 bottom of which is a crescent of electric blue ; the whole edged 

 hroadly with velvety-black ; on 7 to 11 rather larger, pupil 

 deep purple above shading to reddish-brown below, edged above 

 and below with a crescent of electric blue, the whole edged 

 broadly with velvety-black ; a broad yellow band, crossed by 

 black lines, lying along the front margin of segments 5 to 11, 

 and passing over the dorsum from the dorso-lateral stripe. 

 Horn black with the tip narrowly yellow or white ; legs red ; 



Fig. 115. — Theretra oldenlandise oldenlandiee (Fabr.). 



prolegs and claspers black. Spiracles elongate-oval, white with 

 a broad fuscous band across the middle, and a narrow black 

 rim. Length 80 mm. ; breadth 11 mm. ; horn 8 mm. 



Pupa. — Tongue-sheath not much projecting, semicircular 

 in side-view, directed somewhat ventrad ; hind margin of 

 segment 11 slightly undercut and overlapping the front 

 margin of 12. Surface shining, head, thorax and wing-case 

 nearly smooth, abdomen shagreened and minutely pitted ; 

 front bevels of segments 9 to 11 transversely corrugate. 

 Spiracle of 2 a slit lying between the forward -curved, slightly 

 raised, hind margin of 2 and the straight front margin of 3, 

 behind which is a short rounded transverse ridge ; remaining 

 spiracles oval, surface convex, central slit with narrow raised 

 rim. Cremaster elongate-triangular, ending in a short, stout, 

 truncate-conical polished shaft, tip shaped like the tail of 

 a whale, the flukes formed of short conical highly polished 

 teeth directed outwards ; upper surface convex and pitted, 



