Hippotion velox Fabricius, 1793

 Head, thorax, abdomen and HW UP dark brown; tegulae edged in cream; abdomen with black dorsal and subdorsal lines with cream/white lateral patches on abdominal segments 5-8.  FW UP brown, with a series of oblique pale, slightly waved lines; discal spot black, conspicuous; dark brown spot near the tornus and three dark brown lines extending in from the apex as far as vein M2; fringe chequered cream and brown.  HW UP brown, tornus and inner margin paler.

South India and Sri Lanka; from Nepal east to Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands (Japan), then south and east through the Philippines, Sunda Islands, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland (Australia) to Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Tokelau.  Also recorded from the Maldives, Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Andaman Islands and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.