458 sphingid^:. 



stripes, interrupted by the oblique ocelli, excepting that 

 on 11 and 12, which runs from the base of horn through the 

 spiracle on 11. Horn dull pink, extreme tip yellowish ; 

 legs claret-colour. Spiracles oval, the ends somewhat pointed, 

 pale yellow with a broad central band of violet-green and a 

 narrow, pale brown rim. 



There are also dark- coloured forms of the larva in which 

 the green is replaced by pinkish-chocolate and dark chocolate, 

 or by purplish ; the ocelli of the same colour but darker in 

 shade ; those on 6 to 11 sometimes indistinct ; horn brown 

 with yellowish tip ; spiracles fuscous with a broad border of 

 pale dull ochreous. Length 85 mm. ; breadth 12 mm. ; 

 horn 5 mm. 



Pupa. — Tongue -sheath projecting somewhat frontad and 

 more ventrad, the edge flattened ; antenna equal to fore leg, 

 which reaches to more than one-half the distance to tip of 

 wing-case, mid-leg to three-quarters that distance ; a narrow 

 coxal piece. Surface dull; sides of tongue-sheath, head and 

 thorax coarsely irregularly transversely corrugate ; a very 

 shallow palpal depression ; costa of fore wing tumid and, 

 together with the veins, set with lines of rounded tubercles ; 

 abdomen finely shagreened ; front bevels of 9 to 11 superficially 

 pitted ; five narrow ante-spiracular ridges on 9 ; hind margin 

 of 11 tumid and undercut, the front margin of 12 fitting into it 

 telescopically. Spiracle of 2 at the bottom of a very deep 

 triangular depression ; remaining spiracles slightly convex 

 ovals, the central slit widening at the ends and with a thick rim. 

 Cremaster with the sides nearly parallel in basal half, then 

 curving inwards, ending in two conical simply pointed diverging 

 teeth, their bases touching ; dorsal surface convex and coarsely 

 striate, ventral concave with an irregular mesial ridge ; under 

 the base of cremaster a deep funnel-shaped depression running 

 forwards into 14, the surface of the hollow very rugose. 



Colour of head, tongue-sheath and wing-case nearly black ; 

 segments 2 and 3 dark wood- brown, 3 and dorsum of abdomen 

 paler wood-brown ; abdomen with a broad faint greenish 

 dorsal stripe ; sides bone-colour mottled and speckled with 

 brown ; hind bevels of 8 to 10 greenish ; front bevels of 

 9 to 11 rusty ; 12 to 14 blackish ventrally, 13 and 14 also 

 blackish dorsally ; venter pale with a narrow black ventral 

 stripe ; spiracles and cremaster black, the tips of the teeth 

 white. Length 50-60 mm. ; breadth 13 mm. 



Habits. — Food-plants : Aporosa lindleyana Baill. ; A. rox- 

 burghii Baill. ; family Euphorbiaceae. The egg is usually 

 found on small bushes, close to the ground, and even on seedlings 

 with only a few leaves showing above the ground. The larva 

 is also found close to the ground or among the thicker parts of 

 the foliage, near the stem. In S. India the moth does not 



