( IS ) 



.)/».s-. A'./.C'.i. p. -207. n. filo. t. 9. t 2. 2a (I., p.) (1857) ; Mcne'tr., /v»(m. 0,(7,. .l/i/m. .!/»«. A/,-. 



Lrji. f,. '.).■}. II. 1554 (1857) (Ind. or.) ; Walk., Jourii. Liim. Soc. Loud. vi. p. 85. n. 14 (1802) 



(Sarawak); Feld., nini. Eiit. Monai. v. p. 30. n. 33 (1862) (Ning-po) ; Moore, Prm: Znol. 



S()i\ Loud. p. 793 (18G5) (Balasore) ; Boied., Spec. Gen. Lip. Hit. i. p. 7. n. 3 (1875) ; Siiell., 



Tijdschi: Eiit. XX. p. 4. n. 15 (1877) (Java) ; id., I.e. p. 67 (1877) (Sumatra); id., I.r. xxii. 



p. 63. n. 2 (1879) (S. Celebes); id., in Snellemann, Fauna Midd. Sumatra ii. p. 29 (1892). 

 *Achei-o,itia Irth- Westwood, Cab. Or. Eiit. p. 87. t. 42. f. 2 (1848) (Mus. O.xford) ; Walk,, Cat. Lrp. 



I/et. B..U. viii. p. 235. n. 2 (1850) (Assam ; Ceylon) ; Wall., I'rur. Eid. S„c. Lmal. p. 10 (1864) 



(alive in England.). 

 Arheronlia circe Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, Cal. L(p. .!/«.<. E.LC. i. p. 2G7. n. (;15 (1858) (sub syn. ; 



notn. maxime supervac). 

 Arheronlia larlicsi-t, id., Lcp. Ceylim ii. p. C. t. 77. f. 1. U. \r. (I.,jk, /'.) (18.S2) ; Pagenst., .J<(lir/). 



yas.s. Ver. Naf. xli. p. 103. n. 191 (1888) (Aniboina) ; Hamps., in Blanf., Fauna Brd. Lid., 



Moths i. p. 67. n. 89 (1892) ; Senip., Schm. Phdipp. ii. p. 390. n. 20. t. 9. f. 1. 2. 3 [L, p.) (1896) ; 



Piep., Tijd^rhr. Ent. x\. p. 104 (1897) (Java) ; Leech, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 275. n. 33 (1898) 



(China, vi. vii. viii.) ; Dudg., Journ. Bomhaij N.H. Soc. xi. p. 406. n. 89 (1898) ; Bart«l, in 



Riihl, Gro.'^.vschin. ii. p. 25 (1899). 

 Achcrontia styx, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 513. n. 1 (1884) (Karachi, vii. viii., larva 



different on diff. plants). 

 ifanduca laches'is, Kirby, Cal. Lep. Hct. i. p. 700 n. 5 (1891) : Huwe, BcrL Ent. Zcilschr. xl. p. 368. 



n. 42(1895) (Java). 

 Munduca hirhesh ab. atra Huwe, !r. (Java, ? ). 



c? ? . The amount of black is very variable both 011 abdomen and wings ; the 

 black colour generally more extended on the abdomen of the S than on that of 

 the ? . The stigma of the forewing is small and white ; it is contiguous with a 

 black patch situated in the apex of the cell ; the line at tlie proximal side of the 

 same patch forms a kind of ring before the inner margin, being joined behind 

 SM^ to a discal line. 



Palpi widely separate at end. Spines on the outer side of the first segment 

 of the foretarsus numerous. Mctanotum and end of mesonotum marked with red 

 hairs ; edge of skull-mark also generally with some red hairs. The white scaling 

 at the end of the antenna a little more extended than in atropos ; antenna longer 

 than in atropos, in S as stout as, but in ? obviously thinner than, in that species. 



6. Armature of harpe (PI. XXXV. f. 2) represented by two parallel hooks 

 sinus between them rounded (in dorsal view). 



? . Vaginal aperture provided proximally with a transverse ridge or flap, which 

 is rounded laterally and shallowly sinuate mesially. 



Larva : a yellow form with oblique red bands, and a green form with oblique 

 yellow bands bordered with bine in front. — Food-plants : Anti(fesma, Datura, 

 Nicotiana tabacum, etc. 



Hab. From China, N. and S. India, Ceylon, eastwards to the Southern Moluccas 

 (Ceram, Amboina). Not yet found iu N.W. India and Jajiau. 



In the Tring Museum 7U-odd sijecimens from : Ceylon, S. India (Nilgiris) 

 Sikkim, Assam, China (one of them labelled " Pekin "), Malay Pen., Sumatra, Nias, 

 Borneo, Palawan, Java, Lombok, Timor, Celebes, Ceram. 



8. Acherontia atropos. 



Aldrov., Dt A mm. Ins. p. 363. f. 3 (1602); id., i.e. ed. Franc, p. 96 (1618); Moufet, Thmtr. 

 fnx. p. 89. fig. (1634) ; Schroeck, Ephem. Ac. Nat. Cur. Dec. 2. Ann. 7. Obs. 264. p. 475 (1688) ; 

 Albin. Engl. his. t. C (1720) ; Reaum., Hist. Ins. i. p. 293. t. 14. f. 2 ; id., Lc. ii. p. 289. t. 24. 

 f. 4. 5 (1736) ; Wilke, Enr/I. Mollis CL I.S.B. p. 9. t. 1 (1747) ; Roesel, Ins. BHust. iii. p. 15. 

 frontisp (I.), t 1. f. 1-4 {l, p.). t. 2. f. 5. 6 (i.) (1755) ; Hemm., CM. Cur. Ins. t. 1. f. a. b. c. 

 (!., t) (17:- V) ; Linni.', Iter Ilasschjuist pp. 408. 417. n. 104 (1757) ; Jonst., T/icatr. Anim. 



