100 SPHING1DJE. 



Head, thorax, and a stripe down centre of abdomen green 

 suffused with ferruginous ; thorax with a lateral grey stripe ; 

 abdomen golden yellow at sides. Pore wing olive-brown, the base 

 green with a patch of black and white on the inner margin ; a black 

 dot at end of cell ; a postmedial waved oblique line met by three 

 straight oblique lines from the apex at inner margin ; two sub- 

 marginal lines. Hind wing black-brown ; the anal angle ochreous, 

 which colour extends towards the apex as a submarginal band. 

 Underside suffused with reddish ochreous. 



Larva blue-green, a subdorsal line with oblique streaks below it 

 on 4th-10th somites ; 4th somite with a black-ringed green ocellus 

 centred with black ; horn yellow. 



Hah. Hongkong, throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Bor- 

 neo; Java. Exp. 92-122 millim. 



158. Theretra actea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, p. 93, pi. 248 a ; C. $ S. 



no. 53; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 88, figs. 1, 1 a (larva and 

 pupa). 



Differs from nessus in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 purplish grey ; vertex of head and a dorso-lateral stripe to 

 thorax and abdomen green. Bore wing purplish grey ; a green 

 oblique central area from below apex to inner margin with some 

 indistinct lines on it ; an irregular dark outer area with some 

 yellow inside it. Hind wing with anal patch and submarginal 

 band pointed. 



Larva green ; a dark dor?al line ; a subdorsal pale line on tho- 

 racic somites ; 4th somite with a large ocellus, white ringed with 

 brown and centred with blue and green ; 5th-10th somites with 

 blue ocelli centred with yellow ; lateral area whitish ; horn yellow. 



Hah. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Borneo ; Java. Exp. 74- 

 80 millim. 



Genus ELIBIA. 

 Elibia, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 148 (1856). 



Type, E. dolichus, Westw. 



Range. N.E.India; Sumatra. 



Palpi very thickly and quadrately scaled at apex ; antennae 

 gradually fining to a long hook. Bore wing acute at apex ; veins 

 6 and 7 of hind wing from end of cell. 



159. Elibia dolichus, TVestzv. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 61, pi. 30, fig. 1 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 50. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown; thorax with three pale 

 stripes ; abdomen with a broad dorsal pale stripe. Bore wing pale 

 brown, with dark brown very oblique lines, the two broadest from 

 near the apex ; a small ring-spot at end of cell. Hind wing bluish 

 at base, the outer area blackish ; cilia chequered white and brown. 



