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SPHINGIDiE. 



Genus NEPHELE. 

 Nephele, Hiibn. Verz. p. 133 (1818). 



Type, N. liespera, Fabr. 



Range. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Australia ; Madagascar ; 

 Africa. 



Antennas with the terminal hook rather short and slight ; palpi 

 with the second joint very broad and rounded. Wings rather short 

 and broad : apex of fore wing but slightly acute. 



Pupa with the anterior somites narrow ; no external sheath for 

 proboscis. 



172. Nephele hespera, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 546 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, 

 pi. 72, figs. 1,1 a, b (pupa and larva) ; C. §• S. no. 185. 

 Sphinx chiron, Cram. Pap. JExot. ii. p. 62. 

 Sphinx didyma, Fabr. Sp>. Ins. ii, p. 148. 

 Sphinx quaterna, Charpentier, Ed. Espers Exot. Schmett., Sph. pi. 1, 



fig. 2. 

 Sphinx raorpheus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, p. 84. 

 Perigonia obliterans, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 28. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-brown or green; abdomen 

 with lateral black segmental bands. Fore wing olive-brown or 

 green, with six faint waved lines and an angled submargiual line, 



Fig. 63. — Nephele hespera, $ . \. 



the space between it and outer margin paler ; at the end of the cell 

 are two conspicuous silvery white spots, which may be reduced to 

 a small speck or be altogether obsolete. Hind wing red-brown ; 

 the cilia ochreous. Underside paler, each wing with two transverse 

 lines. 



Larva green, with a pale stripe from 7th to 11th somites. 



Bab. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Australia. 



