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Show 1885.] ON LEPIDOPTERA OF BOMBAY A N D T H E DECCAN. 287 5. On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan.- HETEROCERA. Part II. By Lt.-Col. C. SWINHOE, F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Continued from p. 148.] [Eeceived March 5, 1885.] (Plates XX. & XXI.) HETEROCERA. SPHINGID^E. 1. CEPHONODES HYLAS. Sphinx hylas, Linn. Mant. i. p. 539. Poona, November, February, and March; Sattara, June; Belgaum; Bombay, July; var. S. cunninghami also occasionally taken in Bombay and Poona. 2. MACROGLOSSA GYRANS. Macroglossa gyrans, Walker, viii. p. 91. Poona, May; Bombay. 3. MACROGLOSSA BELIS. Sphinx belis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 94. f. C. Belgaum; Sattara, June ; Bombay. 4. NEPHELE HESPERA. Sphinx hespera, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. pp. 152-54. Poona, July, September, October, and November ; Sattara, June and November; Bombay, October, November, and December. 5. PANACRA VIGIL. Deilephila vigil, Guerin-Meneville, in Deles. Souv. Voy. dans l'Inde, pt. ii. p. 80, pi. 23. f. 1 (1843). Poona, February ; Bombay, September. Larvae feed on the lettuce-tree, pupal stage from 7 to 19 days. The larva spins no silk whatever, but buries itself under the fallen leaves at the foot of the tree when ready to turn chrysalis. Larva is light green, then light chocolate-brown ; some of the larvae changed colour just before transformation, some quite early, when only an inch long: out of one lot of 7 that turned pupa, 27th, 29th, 30th October, 2nd, 6th, 1 lth, and 12th November, they emerged 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 29th November, and 1st December. 6. DEILEPHILA LIVORNICA. Sphinx livornica, Esper, Ausl. Schmett. ii. pp. 87, 196, pi. 8. f. (1785). Bombay. |