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Show 1875.] SPECIES OF SPHINGIDCE. 257 whitish dot on lower discocellular ; external half of wing distinctly marked off by a narrow brown-edged dusky band, followed immediately by a brown bisinuated line ; an irregularly undulated line and ocelloid patch (enclosing two large black spots) near external angle, as in T. dyras and allies: secondaries brown, darker towards centre of abdominal area, costal area testaceous, anal area grey; an ochraceous submarginal diffused litura at apex ; the veins of costal half of wing tawny: thorax grey ; abdomen pinkish brown, with clay-coloured diffused lateral patches on each segment, edges of the segments whitish, a dorsal ferruginous line : primaries below smoky brown, the base and internal area testaceous; apical half of costa creamy white; apical area greyish; crossed by pinkish veins, and transversely by a postcellular diffused subcostal spot and two parallel postcellular abbreviated lines, dark brown, also by two much more widely separated blackish lines, the inner one best-defined, angulated so that it joins the outer one in second median interspace ; a sinuated orange spot at apex ; external area below third median branch golden orange, clouded and irrorated with bright ferruginous: secondaries rosy, abdominal area grey ; a submarginal anal streak of bright orange, bordered with brown externally ; three central parallel slightly irregular brown lines and two more widely separated angulated discal lines ; a whitish diffused subapical costal spot, and a line of the same colour margining the outer discal line ; the areas between the lines somewhat dusky ; body rosy clay-colour. Expanse of wings 3 inches 11 lines. Darjeeling. Type, coll. F. Moore. A very beautiful species. 49. TRIPTOGON ROSEIPENNIS, n. sp. Allied to T. gaschkwitschii, but the primaries more pointed at apex and brownish ochreous, lilacine between the bands, the inner margin and apex slaty grey, outer margin from apex to first median branch black-brown, basal tuft rosy ; secondaries rose-colour, becoming ochraceous at outer margin, two large black subanal spots (not bordered with white) ; body much darker, thorax purplish brown, with a broad deep chocolate-brown longitudinal central streak; abdomen brown, purplish at the sides: primaries below paler than above, interno-basal half (costa excepted) rosy, disk pale brown tinted with rosy, outer margin broadly coppery brown from costa to inner margin ; secondaries pale brown, tinted with rosy, abdominal area broadly pink, outer margin broadly coppery brown; body purplish brown. Expanse of wings 3 inches 7 lines. Hakodadi ( Whitely). Type, B.M. The larva of this species is bright sap-green, covered with minute yellow tubercles, with seven long oblique lateral stripes of yellow from between the spiracles to the dorsal region; legs yellow, prolegs tipped with brown. A. second form of the larva is pale sea-green, with the posterior areas of the sixth to the eleventh segments in the dorsal region pale greyish pink; the tubercles and lateral stripes white; the legs pale green. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1875, No. XVII. 17 |