Volume 1

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson.

Date:
1892-1896
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    across the apex as well as the oblique line; no triangular marginal patch below the apex. Hind wing more excised before anal angle; unif()rm dark brown, the pale submarginal line only appearing near anal angle. Underside without the red suffusion. Hab. Sikhim; N.E. Bengal; Singapore. Exp. 84 millim. 152. Daphnis minimus, Butl. Trans. Zool. Soc. x, p. 573 ul 02 fio- 5 • a S. 110. 114. ^ ■ ' °- ' Head and collar grey-brown ; tegulae olivaceous; abdomen grey- brown, with some olivaceous marks towards the extremity. Fore wing grey-brown, with an olivaceous curved subbasal band ; a medial band widest and angled below the costa; two postmec'lial curved lines ; a series of marginal dark marks. Hind wing and underside uniform grey-brown. Eab. S. India. Exjy. 44 millim. Genus DILEPHILA. Deilephila, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 42 (1816). Type, D. livornica, Esp. _ Mange. Europe; Canaries; N. Africa; Madagascar; Afghan- istan ; Himalayas ; China; Hawaii; N. and S. America. ^ Differs from Chcerocampa in the end of each antenna being much tnicker, with the hook very short; outer margin of fore wing as in typical Chcerocampa. 153. Dilephila livornica, Esp. Schmett. ii, pp. 87, ]96, pi. 8, fio-. 4; C. cy o. no. iUy. ' c J Sphinx koechlini, Fuessly, Arch. Ins. Gesch. pi. 33, figs. 1-5 flarva and pupa). i.ituvci Kg. 55.—Dilephila livornica, j. Head and thorax ohve, white lines above the eyes and alone s,des of thorax met on metathorax by white lines fW Xe vertex of thorax; abdomen ohve, with white lateral segmental nltohp^ and^black segmental lines with three white dorsafSpecks ofeae