490 SPHINGLD^E. 



183 b. Cechenena lineosa lineosa (Walk.). (Fig. 123 L-O, 



genitalia ; fig. 124, imago ; PL VII, fig. 7, larva). 



Chserocampa lineosa, Walker, 1856, p. 144 (Sylhet) ; Moore, 

 1857, p. 276 (Darjiling) ; id., 1865, p. 794 (Bengal) ; Butler, 

 1881 B, p. 9, pi. lxxix, fig. 7 ; Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887, p. 19 

 (Cherrapunji ; Sylhet ; Sikkim) ; Hampson, 1892, p. 93 

 (partim). 



Theretra lineosa, Roths., 1894 A, p. 75; Dudgeon, 1898, p. 412 

 (Sikkim and Bhutan). 



Cechenena lineosa, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 803, pi. x, fig. 3 (6*) ; 

 Mell, 1922, p. 330, pi. xii, fig. 34, pi. xiv, fig. 34, pi. xix, 

 figs. 34, 35 (pupa), pi. xxxii, fig. 13 (larva), fig. 14 (<J). 



Cechenena lineosa lineosa, Seitz, 1929, p. 570, t. 68 a. 



Chserocampa major, Butler, 1875, p. 249 (Darjiling ; Sylhet). 



Imago. — <£$. Head, thorax and abdomen green ; a whitish 

 lateral stripe on head and thorax to costa of fore wing ; 

 thorax with a pale mesial band ; abdomen with four pale 



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Fig. 124. — Cechenena lineosa lineosa (Walk.). 



dorsal lines, the two outer lines broader and better marked than 

 the two inner lines. Fore wing green, with eight lines in outer 

 half, third line from distal margin short, more or less undulate, 

 abbreviated in front, or here joining the preceding line ; 

 the three proximal lines of the same distinctness, or the middle 

 one indistinct, which is generally the case when the interspaces 

 are very pale. Hind wing black with a pale submarginal band 

 of varying width. Underside ochreous suffused with red and 

 speckled with black ; some black in cell of fore wing and 

 postmedian dark lines. Mid-tibial spurs as in minor. Expanse : 

 ^$ 94-120 mm. 



For details of genitalia see figs. 123 L, M, N, O. 



Hab. E. Himalayas (Sikkim ; Bhutan ; Khasi Hills) to 

 Malaya and S. China. We have bred the subspecies in the 

 Khasi Hills, where it is fairly common at an elevation of 

 about 5,000 feet, and Mell has bred it in S. China. 



