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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 595 Tribe SPHINGES. Fam. SPHINGID^E. PERGESA ACTEUS, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 248. f. A (1782). S. Andamans (Port Blair). PANACRA BUSIRIS, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 158 (1856). S. Andamans (Port Blair). ACHERONTIA MORTA, Hiibner ; Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 237. f. A. A. satanas, Boisd. Hist. N. des Lep. pl. 16. f. 1. A. lethe, Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 87, pl. 42. f. 2. (?) Sphinx lachesis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 434. S. Andamans (Port Blair). CHCEROCAMPA NESSUS, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 46, pl. 27. f. 1 (1773). S. Andamans (Port Blair). CHCEROCAMPA TENEBROSA, n. sp. Upperside-fore wing dark buff-brown, with six oblique discal indistinct dusky bands, the fourth black-streaked where crossing the veins ; a black spot near base and one at end of the cell; hind wing dark fuliginous-brown, palest at anal angle; thorax dark buff-brown ; abdomen dusky brown above. Underside-fore wing dusky brown ; discal oblique band reddish buff, slightly black-speckled, and with black spot on each vein : hind wing reddish buff, slightly black-speckled, with a discal series of black spots : abdomen beneath and legs pale buff-brown. Expanse 3 inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. Allied to C. lucasi, Walk., but is a much darker insect. TRIPTOGON ANDAMANA, n. sp. Male. Nearest allied to T. fuscescens, Butler, but differs above on the fore wing in the median and subbasal transverse bands being bent and terminating on the hind margin more obliquely inwards, the basal bands each being waved, and the dark chestnut-brown spots near posterior angle smaller; hind wing less lobed and browner at anal angle, the spots smaller, and basal streaks not so prominent; and on the underside the inner dusky band on hind wing is curved. Expanse 4 inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. CLANIS PHALARIS, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 83, pl. 149. f. A (1779). Sphinx pagana, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 146 (1781). Sph. nicobarensis, Schwartz, Beyt. Suppl. a Klem. et Roes. i. 1 ; Esper, Schmett. App. pl. 1. f. 1. Clanis nicobarensis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 138. S. Andamans (Port Blair). 38* |