452 A.PPENDIX. 



82. Eupterote vialis. 



$ black-brown ; thorax with the tips of the hairs prominently 

 white ; abdomen fulvous ; the oblique line very indistinct on fore 

 wing, obsolete on hind wing. 



85 a. Nisaga rufescens, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 278. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous ; wings pale 

 rufous with a silvery-grey tinge. Fore wing with ill-defined ante- 

 medial, medial, and oblique postmedial dark rufous lines. Hind 

 wing with indistinct broad postmedial dark rufous band composed 

 of diffused lines. 



Hub. Shimoga, Mysore. Exp. 50 millim. 



SPHINGID^] 



Genus DEGMAPTERA, nov. 



Type, D. mirabilis, Roths. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis. 



Differs from Polyptyclius in the fore wing having the apex acute ; 

 the outer margin crenulate and produced to a point at vein 7 ; 

 the inner margin deeply excised before outer angle. Hind wing 

 with the costa slightly excised before middle, very deeply at 

 middle, and expanding into a large lobe before apex; the anal 

 angle lobed ; veins 6, 7 hardly stalked ; 8 almost touching 7 near 

 its origin. 



92 a. Degmaptera mirabilis, Roths. Nov. Zool. p. 542. 



Deep ferruginous red, variegated with ochreous and orange- 

 yellow. Fore wing with sinuous subbasal and antemedial lines 

 with yellow between them ; a fuscous-brown medial band from 



Fig. 240. — Degmaptera mirabilis, J . j- . 



costa to vein 2 ; a small annulus at end of cell ; an obliquely 

 crenulate postmedial line ; traces of an irregularly crenulate sub- 

 marginal line ; the area at apex and between lower angle of cell 

 and outer angle variegated with ochreous and yellow and irrorated 

 with ferruginous. Hind wing deep red-brown, with traces of 

 red medial and submarginal bands. "Underside variegated with 

 ochreous and irrorated with ferruginous ; both wings with distinct 

 postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 60 millim. 



