CECHENENA. 485 



ocelli, lateral area bright green ; rest of body very pale green 

 with short stripes across the secondary rings, alternately 

 very pale blue and very dark green ; two large subdorsal 

 pale blue spots on each segment from 6 to 11 ; a narrow 

 dark green dorsal stripe from front margin of 3 to near base 

 of horn ; an ill-defined pale green dorso-lateral stripe on 3 and 

 4 ; ocellus on 5 rather small, oval, the long axis inclined 

 backwards and upwards at an angle of about 30°, lower front 

 part of pupil very deep blue, upper hind part yellow, the 

 pupil edged above and below with dark olive-green dotted 

 with pale yellow, the whole edged narrowly with white and 

 then dark green ; broad ill -defined very pale blue zigzag 

 dorso-lateral stripe from 6 to base of horn, edged above with 

 short dark green stripes. Horn pale yellow with self-coloured 

 tubercles, the extreme tip black ; legs flesh-colour. Spiracles 

 ochreous with a dark green rim. 



In the dark-coloured form the head is brown, segment 2 

 degraded yellowish -brown, 3 to 5 muddy-brown, dorsum pale 

 ochreous ; a greenish-ochreous dorso-lateral stripe, edged 

 above with dark brown, from 3 to ocellus ; subdorsal spots as 

 in the green form ; ocellus with lower front part of pupil dark 

 blue, upper hind part brown spotted with yellow, pupil 

 edged narrowly with pale blue in front, more widely with white 

 behind, the whole edged narrowly with dark brown ; a zigzag 

 dark brown dorso-lateral stripe from 6 to base of horn, the 

 body above it marked with short stripes across the secondary 

 rings, alternately dark brown and degraded white, below it 

 degraded white with a few dark stripes ; broad ill -defined dark 

 brown oblique stripes on 5 to 10. Spiracles ochreous with 

 the slit edged with brown on each side and the rim brown. 

 Length 98 mm. ; breadth 11 mm. ; horn 5 mm. 



Pupa. — Not recorded. 



Habits. — Food-plant : Vitis Linn., family Ampelidese. 

 Habit the same as those of Theretra and Rhagastis. We have 

 only seen bred specimens of the moth. 



180. Cechenena segrota (Butl.). (Fig. 123 A-D, genitalia). 



Pergesa segrota, Butler, 1875, p. 246 (Sylhet) ; id., 1877 A, p. 549, 



pi. xcii, fig. 2. 

 Cechenena segrota, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 800, pi. x, fig. 10 (6*) ; 



Seitz, 1929, p. 570, t. 68 b. 

 Chserocampa velata, Hampson (non Walk.), 1892, p. 91 (partim). 



Imago. — (£$. Similar to C. mirabilis, but considerably 

 larger and the fore wing brown instead of green, the dark 

 bands duller and less distinct. Hind wing black with a curved, 

 proximally notched, dull ochreous submarginal band. Abdo- 

 men with a black lateral line widening towards base, not 



