DEILEPHILA NESSUS. Alis anticis cinerascentibus apice externo albido,
posticis nigris fasciâ fulvâ, abdominis lateribus fulvis. (Expans. Alar.
fere 5 unc.)
SYN. Sphinx Nessus, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Cramer Ins. tab._ 226. _fig._
D.
Sphinx equestris, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 365. _No._ 29.
HABITAT: Madras.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ white above, and brown beneath. Head, neck, and
thorax olive brown, with an ash-coloured streak running on each side
thereof. Abdomen, next the thorax, very dark, from whence a brown list
runs along the upper part to the extremity; the sides being of a golden
yellow. Anterior wings dark green next the shoulders, softening to a nut
brown as it runs along the anterior edges; the tips cream-coloured, from
whence run two faint lines to the middle of the posterior edges; and also
a lightish bar running in the same direction. Along the external edges
they are of a delicate, soft, nut brown colour, and near the middle of
each is a small black spot, placed near the anterior edge. Posterior
wings black next the body, but nut brown along the external edges (about
half way); the abdominal corners and adjoining parts being cream colour,
as are the cilia and anterior edges.
_Under Side._ Breast, sides, and abdomen deep golden yellow; the middle
of which and the legs are ash-coloured. Wings deep yellow. The anterior,
next the body, greenish black, and cream-coloured next the tips. The
posterior having several faint, dark, and undulated lines crossing them
from the anterior to the abdominal edges.
GLAUCOPIS COARCTATA [female].
Plate XXVII. fig. 2.