DILBPHILA. THEKETRA. 



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156. Dilephila dahlii, Geyer, Samml. Sphing. figs. 161-164. 

 Deilephila robertsi, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 412, pi. 39, figs. 9, 10 



(larva & pupa) ; C. 8r S. no. 111. 



Differs from galii in the thorax having two white stripes, the 

 tegulae being fringed with white on the inner side also ; abdomen 

 as in enpliorbice. Fore wing as in galii, hind wing with the band 

 pinker. 



Some specimens have the segments of abdomen fringed with blue 

 scales and the veins on outer area of fore wing streaked with white. 



Larva dark grey, spotted with white ; alternate red and yellow 

 dorsal stripes ; a yellow lateral stripe ; each segment with two 

 large black-ringed or irregular white spots and three small ones. 

 Horns, legs, and spiracles red. 



Hob. Europe ; Kandahar ; Simla. Exp. 82 millim. 



Genus THERETRA. 

 Theretra, Hiibn. Verz. p. 135 (1818). 



Type, T. nessus, Drury. 



Range. China ; India ; Borneo ; Java. 



Differs from Chcerocampa in having the basal joints of the palpi 

 hollowed out, with an orifice towards the exterior beset with 

 (?) sensory seta?. 



157. Theretra nessus, Drury, Exot. Ins. ii, p. 46, pi. xxvii, fig. 1 ; 



C. $ S. no. 105 ; Moore, Lep. Cet/l. ii. pi. 86, fig. 1 ; id. Cat. 

 E. I. C. pi. xi. figs. 2, 2 a (larva and pupa). 



Fig. 56. — Theretra nessus, £ , 



Sphinx equestris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, p. 365. 



Chserocampa nessus, var. rubicundus, Schaufuss, Nunq. Otiosus, i, p. 18. 



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