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Pl.hlnr r,„ir„l,<ulivM: halatiif Christ, Mitlli, Sihw. Eiit. (ies. vi. p. 34G (1884) ; Alphdr., in Rom. 



Man Lij>. v. p. 22.'?, a. IS (1881)) ('I'eneriffe) ; Bartel, in Ruhl, amssschm. ii. p. 4.3 (1898). 

 t'rnliijiiiirf com^ulruli var. disUmx, Druce, Pvttc. Zonl. Sue. Lmiil. p. 'IM n. 5. (1888) (Fiji ; N, uima ; 



N. Ilebrid, ; N. Caled. ; W. Austr.), 

 riikfjctliont/us convoh-uti, Kiiby, 0(1. Lcp. Hit. i. p. 690. D, 3G (181)2), 

 PItlegethoiitiu.1 2)seii(Io-convo!vuli, id,, I.e. n. 37 (1892). 

 riilegeihontius reseofasciatus, id., I.e. n. 39 (1892) ( = (listi(n.f). 

 rMegrthoiilim orieiilaUs, id., I.e. n. 38 (1892) ; Huwe, Bed. Ent. Zeitsehr. xl. p. 367. n. 41 (1895) 



(Java). 

 PMecjethontius ahadonna, Kirby, !.c. n. 40 (1893) (partim). 

 Sjiliinx eonroh-iili var. urkntalin, Bartel, in Riihl, Grussschm. ii. p. 43 (1898). 

 Sphinx convolvuli, Piervet, Bull. Soe. Ent. Eraiiee p. 54. (1842) (gynandr.) ; Alt., SU'tt. Ent. Zeit xxi. 



p. 91 (1860) (gynandr.); Pagenst., Jahrh. Nass. V^er. Xat. xxxv. p. 89 (1882) (gynandf.) ; 



Ecki-t., Ber. Oherhcss. Ges. xxvi. p. 3. t. 2. f. 3 (1889) (gynandr.). 

 SjjMiix conrolintU var. al/eea Neuburger, Zeitschr. Ent. iv. p. 297 (1899). 

 Sphinx conrolmili var. nigricantf Cannaviello, Bull. Soe. Ent. Ital. xxxii. p. 295 (1900). 



c??. Pnlvillus of claw-segment decidedly longer than in the other Heme, a 

 distinct black flap being present. ? more uniform in colonr than the S on thorax 

 and forewing. Metanotum with a red side-patch, which is more or less different 

 in tint from the abdominal ])atches. The various names given to this widely 

 distribnted species are based upon slightly differing individuals from various 

 countries. Although it is true tliat the Australian si)ecimeus are on au average 

 rather small, and have, in the cj, the disc of the hindwiug just outside the cell 

 between veins R^ and R^ rather more brown than the African and European 

 individuals, a longer series of specimens shows that these distinctions in size and 

 colour do not hold good. Such and similar differences referred to by many authors 

 as being exhibited by individuals from this or that locality are not at all local. 



The red metanofal and abdominal patches are very rarely replaced by yellow 

 ones ; such an aberrational individual is described from Nantes by Bonjour, 

 Bull. Soe. Sc. Ncct. Quest France vi. p. 29 (1896). 



Thorax : Pi. LXII. f. 7. 8 ; PI. LXIII. f. 1. 



c?. Tenth tergite rounded-dilated before end (PI. XXVI. f. 15. 1(5), apex 

 comjjressed, higher than broad, jwinted ; ventral process of harpe (PI. XXXV. f. 4) 

 somewhat sjmtulate as in Coelonia fulcinotata, the patch of setiferous tubercles of 

 the clasper near the end of the harpe as in the allied species ; but the tubercles 

 rosp. setae rather denser ventrally close to the harj)e, and this portion of the 

 clasper a little iucrassate or even faintly produced ventrad, the slightly projecting 

 ]uirt being tlie rndiiuent of the process found in godarti. 



? . The mesial flaj) («) in front of the vaginal ajterture arises from ah 

 impression, and is very thin ; it belongs to the membraue connecting the seventh 

 and eighth sternites ; at each side of the vaginal orifice there stands a tubercle (<■), 

 and beliind the orifice (Fj another {h) (PI. XXII. f. 4. 5). 



Larva varying from green to black ; head striped as in Achcrontia ; a dorso-' 

 lateral yellow streak from head to horn, and yellow oblique stripes on segments 

 4 to 11, generally accentuated at tlie ujjper end by a yellow dot. Horn witii small 

 tubercles. — Food : Concolvulus, especially arvensis. 



Pupa : tongae-sheath recurved frontad, tip nearly reacliing base. 



Ilab. Eastern hemisphere excejit the higher latitudes, rarely in Siberia, straggler 

 in northern countries. 



In the Tring Museum several larvae, and over 35U imagines from a great 

 number of localities, from Europe to the Solomons and Madagascar. 



The Berlin Museum jjossesses a series of individuals of both sexes — we received 



