PSEUDOSPHINX. APOCALTPSIS. 



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colour of abdomen ; fore wing in having no black streak from 

 apex ; cilia not chequered black and white. 



Bab. Subathu; Simla (Harford). Exp. 50 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus APOCiLYPSIS. 



Apocalypsis, Butl. Trans. Zool. Sue. ix, p. 641 (1876). 



Type, A. velox, Butl. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasi Hills. 



Differs from Pseudosphinx in the fore wing being more produced 

 and pointed at apex, the outer margin more oblique and straight, 

 not crenulate. 



171. Apocalypsis velox, Butl. TV. Z. 8. ix, p. 641; C. 8? S. no. 173. 



Head dark brown ; thorax dark brown, with pale paired lines on 

 each side of vertex ; abdomen dark brown, with a series of black 

 dorsal streaks and black segmental lines with white specks on them. 

 Tore wing dark brown ; white spots at extremities of the veins, 





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Fig. 62. — Apocalypsis velox, $ . \. 



which are pale ; pale obliquely waved antemedial double lines ; a 

 curved postmedial pale band formed of three conjoined lines ; a 

 yellow streak from the apex continued as a very dentate line to 

 outer angle. Hind wing dark brown, with traces of lines near anal 

 angle ; inner margin ochreous ; cilia chequered ochreous and brown. 

 Underside of both wings brown with medial and postmedial in- 

 distinct lines. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 136 millim. 



