56 W. J. HOLLAND. 



SPHINGID.E. 



Subfamily Macroglossin.*:. 



Genus M A€ROCiL,0^iSA Ochs. 



1. .Haeroglosiiia tro<*liiloi<Ies Biitl., P. Z. S. 1875, p. 5. No. 6; Traus. 

 Z. S. London, vol. ix, p. 525. 



This species was originally described by Mr. Butler from specimens 

 received from Sierra Leone. I have received specimens both from 

 the Ogove and from Benita. It is a common West African insect. 



2. Macroglossa Fallcensteiiiii Dewitz, Mitth. d. Miinch. Ent. Vereins. 

 1879, p. 24. 



I am indebted for the identification of this beautiful species to 

 Dr. H. Dewitz, of Berlin, who, with the most distinguished courtesy, 

 presented me with the original drawings from which the plates illus- 

 trating his article in the Tran.sactions of the Munich Society were 

 nuide. 



Hub. — Benita (Reutlinger), Kangwe (Good). 



Genus HY'P^DALrEA Butler. 



3. Hyptetlalea iiisignis Bull.. Traus. Ent. Soc. London, 1877, pp. 397-98. 

 Plate ix, tig. 3. 



This insect, which Mr. Butler aptly characterizes as " one of the 

 most singular of the Sphlngidce, exhibiting affinities to Lophura, 

 Fachygonia, Rhodosoma and Sataspes," was desci-ibed from a specimen 

 in the collection of the Royal Dublin Society which came from 

 Sierra Leone. Since then the British Museum has acquired a speci- 

 men from the Cameroons. There is nothing in Mr. Butler's descrip- 

 tion to indicate the sex of the type. The unique specimen in my 

 collection, which was taken at Benita, is, I think, a female. The 

 antennse are longer and slenderer than in the figure given in the 

 Trans. Ent. Society, and the body is heavier. 



Genus AEL,LOPIJS. 



4. Aellopus CoiniiiasiSB Walk., PI. II, fig. 1. Macroglossa Commasiie, 

 Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 90, No. 9, 1856. Boisduval, Species Genei-al, Sphin- 

 gides vol. i. p. 357, 1874. Aellopus Commasise, Butl., Revis. Sphingida', Trans. Z. 

 S. London, vol. ix. p. 530, 1876. 



Boisduval remarks, " Ce rare et joli Macroglosse se trouve a Com- 

 masia,* pres de Sierra Leone. Nous I'avons decrit au British Mu- 

 seum sur un individu unique." 



* Coomassie? 



