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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    PSEFDOSPHINX. waved black lines ; a conspicuous white spot in end of cell. Hind wing dark brown. Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 64-68 millim. 167. PseudospMnx nyctiphanes, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 209; Butl. III. Het. V, pi. 81, fig. 7; C. ^ S. no. 169. Dark brown ; thorax with black streaks at sides nearly meeting behind, where there are a few blue scales ; head, thorax, and abdomen white below; abdomen with white segmental streaks at sides. Fore wing A^ariegated with various shades of brown and grey scales and crossed by numerous waved dark lines, of which about six are medial and one submarginal; a pale speck in end of cell. Hind wing dark brown, with an obsolescent pale medial band ; cilia brown and whitish. Ilab. Sylhet; Andamans; Perak; Singapore. Exp., S 120, 2 140 millim. 168. Psendosphinx cyrtolophia, Butl. P.Z.S. 1875, p. 259; id. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix, pi. 92, tig. 6, pi. 91, figs. 11, 12, 13 (larva and pupa); C. ^ S. no. 171. Differs from nyctiphanes in the palpi being black at sides. Fore wing with no postmedial w^aved line below. Hind wing with the pale band on underside medial, straight, and oblique, not postmedial, curved, and waved. The type and only known specimen is in very bad condition. Larva grass-green ; a white dorsal stripe from 2nd somite to horn ; a pink clorsal oval ring-mark on 1st and 2ud somites; a larger one from 2nd to 4th somites; lateral oblique pink stripes from 5th to 10th somites. Hah. Madras. Exp. 83 millim. ] 69. PseTidosphmx discistriga, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 209; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 11, pi. 73, tigs. 1,1 a, 1 6 (pupa and larva); C.^8. no. 176. Diludia melanomera, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 13; C. ^ S. no. 177. Diludia macromera, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) x, p. 435. Diludia grandis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 260; C. Sf 8. no. 175. Diludia rubescens, Butl. P. Z. 8.1875, pp. 260, 623; C. 8. no 178 Macrosila obliqua, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 208; C. &■ 8. no. 174. Anceryx increta. Walk. Cat. xxxi, p. 36; C. Sf 8 no 179 ' Diludia vates, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 13; C. | 8. no. 180.' Anceryx piuastri, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 223. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing grey; dark brown bands along sides of palpi and thorax meeting on metathorax, where there are a few blue and yellow scales ; a dark line down vertex of abdomen and paired more diffused subdorsal lines. Fore wmg with some dark strigae from the costa; two dark streaks in the interspaces below veins 2 and 3; a dark streak from the cost^ before the apex, curved down to vein 6, then upwards and bent back before reaching the apex; a series of submarginal lunules; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing brown with