DEILEPHILA CLOTHO. Alis cinereo-olivaceis, lineâ rectâ e margine postico
ad apicem ductâ nigrâ; posticis nigris externè fuscis, angulo ani
pallidiori. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc.)
SYN. Sphinx Clotho. _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Sphinx Butus, _Cram. tab._ 152. A.
Sphinx Gnoma, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 376. _No._ 61. (nec Clotho,
_Fabr. loc. cit. No._ 60.)
HABITAT: Madras.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ cream-coloured. Head brown olive, with a
cream-coloured stripe running on each side to the abdomen. Thorax brown
olive. Abdomen paler, having a black spot on each side near the thorax.
Anterior wings light olive brown, with a line running from the tips to
the middle of the posterior edges, and a small black spot next the
shoulders. Posterior wings, next the body, black; but along the external
edges brown, and palest at the abdominal corners.
_Under Side._ Tongue curled up. Breast and sides cream-coloured. Abdomen
darker. Wings yellowish clay-coloured and freckled. The anterior having a
dark cloud in the middle of each, near the shoulders; and the posterior
having a faint indented line crossing them from the anterior to the
abdominal edges.