litST OF LEPIDOPTERA OF THE ISLANDS TANEOASIIIMA AND YAKI'SUIMA. 149 



1918, in Yakusbima. The specias are very coiuukju at Jurokuban, Tanega- 

 shiina, in June. 



Hitherto iinrecorded from Japan. 



Lx;al distribution. Kiusliiu (Yakushiiua, Tancgashiina). 



General distribution. Japan ; L jochoa ; Formosa ; Yunnan ; India. 



Fam. Sphingidae. 

 Subfam. Si'HiNGiNiE. 

 Uerse convoh'uli. 



Sphiux convolvidi Linn. Sjst. Nat. 10 ed. p. 490 (1758) ; Hmp3n. Moths Ind. 



I. p. 103 : Fritze, Faun. ] iiu-Kiu-Ins. p. 63 ; Leech, Trans. Eut. Soc. 



1898, p. 286 ; Roths, et Jord. Rev. Shin. p. 11 ; ford. Seitz, Macrolep. 

 ir, p. 2,33, pi. 36 a. 



Sphinx abadonna Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 435 (1798). 

 Sphinx rcscqfasciata Koch. ind. Aiisti". Lep. Faun, p. 54 (1365). 

 Sphinx pseudoconvdvuli Schaufuss, Nuug. Otios. p. 15 (1870). 

 Sphinx distans Butl. Lap. N. Zeal. p. 4, pi. 2. f. 11 (1874). 

 Prodopurce onentalis Butl. Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. IX. p. 609 (1877). 

 Sphinx convolvidi var. IcUcdae Christ. INIitth. Schw. Ent. Ges. VI. p. 346 (1884). 

 Sphinx convolvuli var. alicia Neuburgei-, 111. Zeitschr. Eut. IV. p. 297 (1899). 

 Sphinx convolvidi var. nii/ricans Cannaviello, Bull. Soc. Eut. Ital. XXXII. p. 



295 (1900). 

 Argritis convolvidi var. ichagensis, tahitiensis, minor, inajor, grisen, unicolor, 



inlemedia,fuscosignate, virgala, variegcda, stiff usa, ohscura Tutt. Brit. Lep. 



IV. (1904). 



Five males taken by Miyake in Y'akushima, August 1909. 



Local distribution. Hokkaido ; Honshiu ; Shikokn ; Kiushiu. 



General distiibution. Japan ; LDOchoo ; Formosa ? ; Borneo ; Java ; Celebes; 

 India ; Europe. 



