(8 ) 



$. A sniiill flap ill fn.iit of the va,u-iiinl aiiertiire (PI. XXII. f. 4. 5). 



Larva : a groeii and a lirowu luriu, sometimes almost black, very variable 

 hdrii ((if adult) siniiily curve. 1, nearly smooth ; head similarly striped with black 

 as in Arlicrontia and Coeloni(c. — Food-plants: Convolvulus, Tpomoea. 



Pujja with free, recurved, tongne-case ; in a cell in the ground. 



fhih. Cosmopolitan ; four s]iecics in the easlein,one in the western hemisphere. 



Key to the species : 



u. A yellow tuft at each side of the metanotum . 2. If. hirlifn-a. 

 Xo yellow tuft at each side of the metanotum . . /;. 



b. Abdominal tergites white at base with large 



black patches at sides, hindwing dark 

 brown with a pinkish tint on the inter- 

 spaces between the black bands . . .1. Il.Jnsciatus. 



Abdominal tergites with bnfKsli lateral patches, 

 hindwing pale buff between the black bands, 

 the black discal baud narrower, not double 3. //. (jodarti. 



Abdominal tergites with red or rosy red patches c. 



c. II ind wing rosy red, discal black liand not divided 4. II. ciiKjnhiiu. 

 Iliudwing dull grey, without red, discal band 



more or less double . . . . . .">. //. conrolntli. 



1. Herse fasciatus. 



*Sj)hhixfa.'<rlaliis Rotlisohikl, Nov. Zo.iL. i. p. 1)4 (18'J4) (Lifii ;— Mus. Tring) ; id., /.-•. iii. t. IX f. '.) 

 (189G). 



?. Similar to the following, but easily distinguished by the absence of yellow 

 spots from the metanotum, the strongly marked black lines on the seventh tergite, 

 and the j^eenliar vinaceous tint both on body and wings. The roundel flap 1 eforc 

 the vaginal aperture as in hictifera. 



There is no stigma on the forewing, the antemediau and discal lines are barely 

 vestigial, the traces of the external discal line consist of long, thin, almost longi- 

 tudinal, streiks which form very acule angles upon the veins ; a long, thin, black 

 streak 11^ — M', a similar one behind ]\P mostly rather faint ; a large, blackish 

 brown, postmediau costal cloud. The external discal liand of the underside of 

 the hindwing is dentate. Tiie black mesial line of the alidomen, above, is sharjdy 

 marked ; the seventh lergite has, besides, a black line on each side correspimding 

 to the black lateral patches of the other segmeuts. 



Early stages not known. 



Hab. Lifu, Loyalty Islands ;;")?? in the Triug Museum. 



2. Herse luctifera. 



*Macrns}la iKclifn-a Walker, Lis/ Lrp. Lia. li.M. xx\i. p. 35 (18(54) (N. Guinci; Mysol : Ceram; — 



Mus. Oxfoid). 

 PspudnsphinxCi) hiHifera, Butler, Tnnix. Znal. S<h'. L,.mJ. ix. p. CIO. n. .3 (1877). 

 *Prolupam schmeltu Butler, Aim. Mnij. X. II. (fi). x. p. 158 (1882) (Australian Region; -Brit. Mus.). 

 PaeudDSjMiix liictifern, Swinhoe, C'ul. LqK Hcl. .Uus. 0.r. i. p. 32. n. 127 (1892) (N. Guinea, ti/jie ; 



Ceram ; Dorey ; Morty). 

 Mc(/a,ioto„ (?) InrHfera, Kirby, Oit. Lej>. Ilet. i. p. G83. n. 12 (1892). 

 riiletiilhonlius schmrlhi, id., Ic. p. G88. n. 17 (1892) (Oceania). 



*l'ldcgctIio,itiii.'< Vi.ri Rothschild, Nov. Zoiii,. i. p. 94 (1894) (Nicura, Brit. N. Guinea ;— Mus. Tring). 

 *Proloparre iriumjiddrh Holland, Nov. Zdoi.. vii. p. 550. n. 155 (1900) (Buru ;— coll. Holland). 



