ME. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGIDjE 639 



Subfamily AMBULICIN^. 



Genus Ambulyx, Walker. 



Ambulyx flokalis, n. sp. 



Allied to A. superba, but smaller, and clouded with bronze and green. 



d" shining bronzy clay-colour: primaries with the apical half of costal area, the, 

 central and internodiscal areas washed with green ; subbasal area dusky olivaceous, 

 limited externally by an oblique olive line, a second parallel line crossing the wing over 

 the base of the first median branch ; three ill-defined oblique waved lines, the outer- 

 most, undulated, crossing the disk ; between the second and third a very indistinct diffused 

 sinuous line ; inner margin and the lines as they approach it blackish ; a white-pupilled 

 rounded black spot on the lower discocellular ; a tuft of rose-red hairs at the base of 

 inner margin : secondaries with the basal two thirds rose-red ; costal area whitish ; 

 external third washed with green, especially towards apex, brownish towards the anal 

 border ; fringe for the most part white : head and collar brown, tegulse and abdomen 

 washed with green ; antennae testaceous, pectinations brown ; anterior tibise and tarsi 

 above brown. Wings below much paler, testaceous, washed with pale green : primaries 

 with the internodiscoidal area rose-red ; costal area greenish ; a transverse brown litura 

 beyond the cell ; a transverse oblique, nearly straight white-bordered olive discal line ; 

 a zigzag line nearer to the outer margin, becoming black towards inner margin ; a sub- 

 marginal series of spots, only distinct and blackish at the external angle : secondaries 

 crossed by three parallel white-bordered olive lines ; a squamose brown sub marginal 

 spot near anal angle : body below whity brown ; palpi, pectus, and legs slightly dusky. 

 Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 



2 much larger, altogether less lively in colour, the green colouring less perceptible. 

 Expanse of wings 4 inches 11 lines. 



Darjeeling (Atkinson). Coll. O. Staudinger. 



One of the handsomest species in the genus. 



Subfamily SMERINTHIN^. 



Genus Leucophlebia, Westwood. 



Leucophlebia damascena. 

 Leucophlebia damascena, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 392. 



Sikkim (Whitely). Type. B.M. 



vol. ix. — part x. No. 17 .—November, 1876. 4 Q 



