CEPHONODES. — SATASPES. 



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Differs from Hemaris saundersi in the marginal borders being 

 very narrow and black ; the abdomen varies in colour from yellow to 

 green ; in typical Jiylas the 3rd and 4th segments are bright red, 

 in the variety cunninghami only the 4th is red, but there is more 

 red on the terminal segments below. 



Fig. 69. — Cephonodes hylas, $ . \. 



Larva green ; a white-bordered blue dorsal line and whitish sub- 

 dorsal line ending in a yellow streak at base of horn ; head anil 

 spiracles blue. 



Rah. W. and S. Africa ; Japan ; throughout India to Australia 

 and Gilbert Islands. Essp. 64 millim. 



Genus SATASPES. 

 Sataspes, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. i, p. 261. 



Type, S. infernalis, Westw. 



Range. China ; Himalayas • Assam ; S. India. 



Antennas of nearly equal breadth throughout ; hook short and 

 slight ; male with tufts of cilise very long. Palpi with the second 

 joint of moderate size and roundly scaled. Fore wing much 

 produced at apex ; the discocellulars very oblique, with vein 5 

 given off below the centre ; vein 10 absent, 9 sending veinlets to 

 the costa and anastomosing with 8 before the apex. Anal tufts 

 large. 



206. Sataspes infernalis, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 61, pi. 30, fig. 3 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 1. 

 Sataspes unif ormis, Butt. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 3 ; C. § S. no. 2. 



Head greyish Wack ; collar and thorax with golden-yellow hairs 

 mingled with the black ; abdomen black, with a few scattered 

 yellow hairs, the last two or three segments yellow above ; anal 

 tuft black. Wings black ; fore wing with a purplish gloss ; the 

 base grey ; an antemedial grey band ; costa of hind wing white. 

 Underside uniform black. 



