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DAPHNUSA; LANGIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
indicus. 
decoratus. 
ocellaris. 
zcnzeroidrs. 
vina 
black dorsal line terminating behind in a spot. Forewing grey, suffused with red-brown and strewn until black; 
basal and marginal areas browner, postmedian area whiter. The whitish antemedian line, which is inside 
slightly shaded, is outside bordered with black and extends obliquely from the costal margin to the median 
vein, being introangular in the submedian area, then excurved, and at the inner margin again introangular. 
Median line from the costal margin to the median vein excurved, then incurved to the antemedian line. A small 
light central dot feebly bordered with black; postmedian line dark, subterminal line indistinctly double. The 
subcostal spot extends as a streak to the margin; at the places where the veins terminate into the margin there 
are feeble dark spots. Hindwing grey, suffused with brown, postmedian line curved, indistinct, in the anal 
region a whitish spot. Ganjam. 
M. indicus Wkr. (= rectilinea Mr.) (56C b). I only know from Butler’s and Waterhouse’s figures, 
owing to which it is a very small insect with an expanse of only 57 mm and very similar to Agnosia orneus 
Ww. (56 C a), but distinguished by a dark brown apical area and a very large, pale ochreous anteterminal area; 
the rudimentary ocellus which is surrounded by dark arcuate lines before the inner angle of the forewing is 
very indistinct. North India. 
M. decoratus Mr., from Sikkim, is a doubtful species; it is said to be somewhat similar to M. tiliae ; it is 
remarkable for having a narrow angular stripe before the apex of the forewing and a marking like a reverse 
comma below the centre of the forewing. There exists only a pencil-drawing of it by Moore ; nothing is known 
about the type. 
24. Genus: Dapliiausa Wkr. 
This genus containing but one Indian species only differs from the Marumba in the stalk of the 2nd 
subcostal branch with the 1st radial on the hindwing being long, whereas in Marumba it is short. The distal 
margins of the wings are more equal, the forewing not notched and the hinclwing less curved. 
D. ocellaris Wkr. {= fruhstorferi Hu/we, oculata Bsd., orbifera Wkr.) (62 a). At once recognizable by 
the ocellate marking above the inner margin of the forewing before the posterior angle, the shape of which is 
somewhat similar to the ocellus on the hindwing of Smerinthus ocellatus. From Assam through Indo-C’hina 
and across the Sunda Is. to the Philippines. — ailanti Bsd. is said to have a somewhat convexer margin of the 
forewing and slight differences in the course of the transverse lines; denominated according to 1 specimen 
which is said to originate from Hongkong. In Hongkong I have seen neither the larvae nor the imagines of 
Daphnusa which I found quite frequently in Singapore (twice in cobwebs). This form seems to me to be doubtful, 
as also R. Mell could not ascertain the lepidopteron in spite of having collected in Kwang-tung for 14 years. 
The Indian ocellaris vary much in the colouring which may be from ochreous loam-colour to dark greyish- 
brown. - Larva green; intensely granulated with a long horn and rust-brown spots above the feet and on 
the sides of the dorsum; the 4th segment is almost quite purple brown. - Upon a somewhat aberrative, 
damaged specimen of this variable species a new genus was founded: Allodaphnusa Huwe (type: fruhstorferi). 
25. Genus: T^aagia Mr. 
This genus is founded upon a most conspicuous lepidopteral species: a very large Sphinx with an 
expanse of 140—150 mm, with grey forewings marked like wood, the colouring of which to some degree resemble 
immensely enlarged wings of Hxjbocampa milliauseri. The forewings are very pointed, the margin being 
notched, the abdomen quite short. The larva has the approximate shape of a Smerinthida, but no lateral 
oblique stripes, the head is pointed above, but there is only a small crooked horn. Shape of pupa quite different 
from all the Sphingid pupae. 
L. zenzeroides Mr. (= zeuzeroides Gott.) is distributed from Japan to North India. The palaearctic 
form - nawai R. & J. is somewhat smaller than most of the Indians: fig. Vol. II. pi. 38 b. It seems to be 
only more common in the Japanese Island of Hondo, being rare in Kiushu and apparently not found in the 
Lu-clm Is. In the continental form nina 31 ell — the forewing is more darkened grey, particularly the costal 
half exhibits hardly any white; also typical specimens (from Sikkim) show a darker ground-colour which is 
often loamy yellowish in Assam-specimens from the Khasia Hills (= khasiana Rothsch.). All the forms exhibit 
on the last abdominal segment above alternately white and dark grey longitudinal stripes which are not visible 
in our figure (of nawai). -- Larva green, elongate, with a yellow head and horn and an often indistinct yellow 
subdorsal line; on fruit-trees (cherry, apricot); on being disturbed it gives a hissing sound. Pupa very peculiar; 
the end of the head and the anal end very round, almost truncate, the latter without a cremaster. The abdominal 
segments are thickly swollen, particularly on the dorsum they project like thick, rough tori. Colouring dark 
iron grey or bluish grey, the dorsal tori black. The lepidoptera are apparently nowhere common; they clutch 
fast to hanging over boards or branches, and in doing so they curve the abdomen upwards. They cling very 
tightly to the wood they are resting on and cannot be shaken off by beating or the like, and on being disturbed 
they give forth distinct chirping or squeaking sounds. 
