APPENDIX B. 507 



are some small species of Euphorbia Linn, and Phyllanthus 

 Linn. (Euphorbiacese) ; some epiphytic as well as terrestrial 

 species of orchids ; a Dioscorea Linn, or two ; some Liliacese 

 (Gloriosa Linn., ScillalArm., Dipcadi Medik. and Chlorophytum 

 Ker.) ; some Commelina Linn., Aneilema R. Br. and Cyanotis 

 Don (Commelinacese) ; a few arums and many grasses. 



APPENDIX B. 



Food -plants of the Indian Hawk-Moths. 



The food-plants of 135 forms of the Sphingid^: listed in 

 this volume are known, but out of these 23 are not yet 

 recorded from the Indian area, being known only from China 

 or England. 



The initial letters entered against each species of food- 

 plant denote the authority for the record. These are : 



(B.) T. R. Bell. 



(M.) Mell, 1922, all records from China. 



(S.) F. B. Scott. 



(P.) Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa. 



(R.) Rothschild and Jordan, 1903. 



(FM.) Fellowes Manson. 



In cases where the food-plant is not recorded from the 

 Indian area the country from which it is known is added 

 in parenthesis, e. g. (In China). 



I. List of Species of Sphingidae, with Food-plants. 



(These are arranged in the order followed in this volume). 



Aeherontia lachesis (Fabr.). 



Leguminos^:. Erythrina spp. (S., M.) 



Oleace^e. Jasminum spp. ; Nyctanthes abor-tristis Linn. 



(B., S.) 

 Convolvulace^:. Ipomsea spp. (S.) 

 Solan ace.e. Solanum spp. ; Nicotiana tabacum Linn. ; 



Datura Linn. (R., S.) 

 Bignoniace^:. Tecoma grandiflora Loisel. ; Stereosper- 



mum Cham. ; Spathodea campanulata Beau v. (B., 



S., P.) 

 Verbenace^. Lantana camara Linn. ; Stachytarpheta 



indica Vahl. ; Tectona grandis Linn. ; Vitex negundo 



Linn. ; Clerodendron spp. ; Callicarpa arbor ea Roxb. 



(B., S.) 

 Labiate. Coleus Lour. ; Colebrookia oppositifolia Sm. ; 



Anisomeles ovata Br. (S.) 

 Euphorbiace^;. Antidesma Linn. (R.) 



