246 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



"Wings fairly broad (broader than is usual in Eumorphids). Body heavy, 

 bluntly pointed ; legs stout and strong (much more so than in Eumorphids). 

 On the underside of hindwings a clear, white, discoidal spot in all the green 

 species, the brown species — bhaga, protrudens and torenia — showing a gradual 

 reduction of this mark from bhaga, through protrudens to torenia, in which last 

 no trace of it can be detected. A very decided colour-character is shown in the 

 cf s of all species, viz., a dark dorsal blotch on the anal segment, and a pair of dark 

 subdorsal blotches on the antepenultimate segment ; in the ? a pair of dark 

 subdorsal blotches on the anal segment only. The anal segment is much larger in 

 the ? than in the J • The head and eyes very large and prominent, no stripes 

 on abdomen, but only different shades of colour, with the segmental fringes generally 

 well-defined and pale-coloured. Spurs on hind tibiae exceedingly strong. 



It may be observed that the absence of markings on the 

 abdomen gives the Daphnids a very distinct facies. One species 

 (bhaga) has a large fan-shaped tuft to the anal segment in the $ . 

 Two species (protrudens and torenia) have neither the characteristic 

 white discoidal spot, nor anal tuft, and are brown in colour, but 

 the markings are in all extremely alike. The tribe is most developed 

 in the Indian Region, particularly in southern India and Ceylon. 



Chapman gives the following diagnostic summary of the tribe: 



Imago. — Wing markings consist almost entirely of what, in most other 

 groups, are shadings to the obliteration of all the ordinary lines. Pupa. — Pale- 

 coloured for surface pupation, wings smooth, last segments truncate rather than 

 tapered, anal spine very small. LARVA.— Twin eye-spots on mesothorax, sub- 

 dorsal line complete on abdominal segments. 



Kaye has made a somewhat exhaustive examination of the 

 Daphnids available, and suggests the following generic divisions : 



(i) Head not projecting; abdomen long, not tufted; nervures 6, 7 from 

 upper angle of cell, rarely stalked ; legs very long ; spurs to hind tibia excep- 

 tionally long and strong, spines on front tibia weak — Daphnis nerii (type), 

 hypothous, andamanns, minimus, ernestinus, layardi, horsfeldii, protrudens. 



(2) Head not projecting ; abdomen long, not tufted ; nervures 6, 7 stalked ; 

 legs of medium length ; spurs to hind tibia of moderate length, not particularly 

 strong ; spines on front tibia strong — Regia, n.g\, torenia (type of genus). 



(3) Head very projecting ; abdomen stumpy with a large fan-shaped tuft at 

 apex ; nervures 6, 7 of hindwing from upper angle of cell ; legs short, spurs to 

 hind tibia short — Indiana, n.g.-, bhaga (type of genus). 



The structure of Indiana bhaga comes very close to certain 

 Pachyliids, e.g., Pachylia inornata (syces), and these in turn show a 

 close relationship with the Philampelids (Kaye). 



Genus : Daphnis, Hiibner. 



Synonymy. — Genus: Daphnis, Hb., "Verz.," p. 134 (circ. 1822); Stphs., 

 "Illus. Haust.," iv., app. p. 5 (1835); "List Br. An. Br. Mus.," p. 29(1850); 

 Curt., "Brit. Ent.," xiv., fol. 626 (1837) ; Wood, " Ind. Eut.," p. 239, pi. lii., 

 fig- 37 (1839); Westd., "Gen. Syn.," p. 89 (1840); Walk., "List, &c," viii., p. 

 188 (1856); Butl., "Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond.," ix., pt. 10, p. 572 (1876); Moore, 

 " Lep. Ceyl.," ii., p. 14, pi. lxxxii., figs, i — ia (1882); Saalm., " Lep. Madag.," 

 i., p. 123 (1884); Kirby, "Cat.," p. 672 (1892); "Handbook," &c.,iv.,p. 39 (1897); 

 Garbowski, " S.B. Akad. Wien," ci., p. 921 (1892) ; " Hampsn., " Ind. Moths," i., p. 

 94, fig. 54(1892); Staud., " Cat.," 3rd cd., p. 100(1901). Sphinx, Linn., "Sys. Nat.," 

 xthed., j). 490(1758); xiithed., p. 798(1767) ; Hfn., " Berl. Mag.," ii., p. 170(1766) ; 

 Fab., "Sys. Ent.," p. 538 (1 775) ; "Spec. Ins.," ii., p. 142(1781) ; "Mant.," ii., p. 

 93 (1787); "Hb Mag.," vi., p. 287 (1807); Schiff., "Schmett. Wien.," p. 42 

 (1775); Ill's, n. Ausg., p. 16 (1801); Cram., "Pap. Exot.," iii., pi. 224, d 

 (1779); Esp., "Schmett. Eur.," ii., p. 43, pi. iv., figs. 1-3; p. 199, pi. xxvii., tigs. 

 1-2 (1779); Bergs., " Sphing. Larv.," p. 9 (1782); Bork., "Sys. Besch.," ii., 

 pp. 74, 138, 173 (1789; ; Brahm, " Ins.-Kal.," ii., p. 524 (1791); Hb., "Eur. 

 Schmett.," fig. 63 (1796); text, p. 95 (circ. 1805); "Larv. Lep.," ii., Sph. 

 iii., Legit. B «, figs la— b (circ. 1800); Shaw and Nodder, " Viv. Nat.," x., pi. 



