PLATE VI.
( O R D E R - L E P I D O P T B R A . SB C T I O Í Í — C R E P U S O U L A R I A . LATUEILLB.)
F I G U R E 1.
UEILEPHILA CYRENE. WESTW.
Deilephila alis anticis olivaceo-albidis, nubila media obsciiriori punctoc(ue minuto orclinai-io, sti-igaqiie fusca e medio
mai-ginis iiiterni ad apiocm ; posticis iiigi'o-fuscis, ángulo anali late albido ; capitis et tlioi-acis lateribus albo-liueatis
luaculisque duabus nigris ad basin abdominis.
Deilepliila witli the fore wings of an olive buff, darker along the costa, and with a dusky cloud in the middle, close to
which is a very minute dark dot, a dark patch at the base of the inner margin, and a nearly straight dark streak from
rather beyond the middle of the inner margin to the tip of the wing (preceded by two or three very indistinct
dusky streaks,) and followed by a dark olive-brown space ; the hind wings are black-brown, with the anal angle
broadly bnff with a slight rosy tinge ; body olive-brown, with a white stripe at the sides of the head anil thorax, and
with two black spots at the base of the abdomen.
Expansion of the fore wings inches.
Inhabits Central India and Ceylon. In the Collections of Col. Hearsey and Dr. Templeton.
D E S C R I P T I O N . — T h e antennse, as well as the under-side of the head and breast, are pale whitish bufl',
with a slight rosy tinge, which also appears on the pale sides of the head. The abdomen is very long
and pointed at the tip ; the sides behind the black spots paler than the back. The legs are pale biift',
and the costa of the fore wings is edged with fulvous.
The species is very closely allied to D. Noma, but differs in the oblique streaks of the fore wings and
the extent of the pale anal spot of the hind ones.
F I G U R E 2.
SMERIKTHUS ? PANOPUS, (CHAMEH, iii. p. 50. PI. 224, Fig. AB.)
Smerinthus (?) alis anticis roseo-fulvis, fascia composita fusca versus basin alterarpie angulata media, postice
obliteratis ; fascia recta obhqua pone medium maculaque subocellari ad anguhun ani nigra ; ahs posticis in medio
roséis lineis duabus undatis fuscis pone medium fimbriaque obscuris.
Smerinthus ? with the fore wings fulvous, with a rosy tinge ; having near the base an oblic|ue dark-brown fascia
(composed of two narrow and one broader stripe) ; another similarly composed but much angulated near the middle
of the wing (both being obliterated behind) ; a straight obhque dark brown fascia beyond the middle of the wing,
terminated in a large black, somewhat ocellated spot at the anal angle ; hind wings ro.sy in the middle, with tw'o
narrow festooned dark lines beyond the middle, and a broad dark border.
Expansion of the fore wings nearly 6 inches.
Inhabits Assam and Sylhet. In my own and the British Museum Collections.
D E S C R I P T I O N . — T h i s fine species has the head and thorax dark-brown, the basal portion of the
abdomen pale-grey, and the terminal segments fulvous, each with a dark-brown patch. The antennse
are slender and curved at the tips, the extremity of the fore wings is obliquely truncate, behind which
the apical margin is nearly straight. The oblique fascia of the fore wings is followed by an olive-brown
space, of which coloiu' there is also a large angulated patch on the apical margin; the spurs of the hind
legs are remarkably long.
I am indebted to !Major Jenkins for my specimen of this species, which differs materially from the
typical Smei'intln; but as Dr. Boisduval is at present engaged upon a revision of the Sphiugidfe, I
ha-s-e abstained from forming it into a new genus. Stoll's specimen was from the North Coast of Java.
F I G U R E 3.
SPHINX ORNEUS. WESTW.
Sphinx alis anticis cinereo-fulvis, striga prope bashi, fascia lata media brunneo-fulva strigarne arcuata pone
medium ; margine interno cinereo maculis 5 nigris, alis posticis roseis, angulo anali cinereo strigis parvis nigris.
Sphinx with the fore wings fawn-coloured or ashy fulvous, a slender red-brown trausverse curved streak near the