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defined. Cramer's figure is bad, the suliapical white patch of the forewing is an 

 exaggeration. 



cJ. Tenth tergite divided into two slender processes which lie close together, 

 but are movable separately, tliey are curved (PI. XXVI. f. 28. 29) ; steruite short 

 and broad, the lobe broader than long, truncate-sinuate, tlie angles slightly produced, 

 sides distally rounded-dilated. Patch of modified scales about three times as long 

 as broad, deep brown except at edges (PI. LVIII. f. 34). Process of penis-sheath 

 (PI. XX VIII. f. 31) very characteristic, sometimes distinctly asymmetrical. We 

 liave not noticed any difference in the sexual armature of c? c? from different 

 localities. Head see PI. LXI. f. 6. 7. 



? . Postvaginal portion of vaginal i)late chitinised, smooth, scaled, halfmoon- 

 shaped, somewliat truncate, the lateral margins elevated; vaginal cavity snrrouuded 

 pruximally and laterally by a wrinkled membranaceous ridge (PI. XXII. f. 0). 



Ilab. Oriental Region : Ceylon to Japan, eastwards to New Caledonia. 



Three subspecies : 



a. P. menephron Ufuense. 

 *M,'<l(tm,tun Ilfwnsr Rothschild, Now Zhol. i. p. 'JO. t. 7. f. "JO (1894) (Lifii ;— Mus. Tring). 



c? ? . The palest form, some specimens nearly all white on the thorax and 

 forewing ; the black discal streaks R^ — M- of the forewing thin, often partly or 

 totally obsolete. The subspecies is variable ; in the darker specimens the discal 

 lines of the forewing are rather pronounced, and there is not distinct medio-costal 

 brown area ; in the paler individuals the markings, inclusive the proximal part 

 of the apical black line, become indistinct. 



Hub. Lifu, Loyalty Islands. 



Fourteen specimens in the Tring Museum. 



b. P. menephron menephron. 



Sphinx menephron Cramer, I.e. ; Pagenst., Ju/)/ft. Naxx. Ver.Nat.'x.W. p. 104. n. 195 (1888) (Amboina). 



Hyliiicux meiii-phniii, Hlibner, Verz. bete. Schm. p. 139. n. 1485 (1822). 



*Macro.tila ilischtrhja yValker, List Lep. Ins. B.M. viii. p. 209. n. 17(1856) (Silhefc ; Hongkong; 



N. China ;— Mus. Brit.) ; Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 268. n. 618 



(1857) ; Walk., I.e. xxxi. p. 34 (1864) (Cambodia ; Ceram) ; Moore, Proc. Zool Soc. Loml. 



p. 793(1865) (Bengal). 

 *.]/<ierosihi niswirimie Walker, List. Lep. Lis. B.M. viii. p. 210. n. 19 (1856) (Sydney ; C. York ;— 



Mus. Brit.) ; Misk., Proe. Roy. Soe. Queensld. \-iii. p. 24. n. 41 (1891) (Newcastle ; Brisbane ; 



Rockhampton ; Card well : C. York ■, = nehulosa ; on Tecoiita and Jnsmiiiuin). 

 Anen-y.r pimistri var. /3, Walker, he. viii. p. 223. sub n. 1 (1856) (N. India). 

 SjjhiiixeiiKiryinata Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, Cut. Lep. Mas. E.I.C. i. p. 268. n. 618 (1857) (sub 



synon., nom. max. supervac.). 

 .Mirrosihi darius Menetri^s, Ewnn. Corp. A/iini. .Mus. Petr., Lep. p. 89. n. 1470 (1857) (Silhet ; num 



nud.) ; Boisd., Spee. Gen. Lep. Net. i. p. 59. n. 2 (1875j (sub synon.). 

 .Miierostila (!) diseistrif/a, Semper, Verh. Zoo!. But. Ges. Wien. xvii. p. 699. n. 8. (1867) (Bohol, larva). 

 .Uei/aiiotoH discistriga, Boisduval, Spee. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. 59. n. 2 (1875) ; Pagenst., Jahrb. Nass. Ver. 



Not. xliv. p. 104. n. 193 (1888) (Ambnina) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 682. n. 7 (1892) 



(E. Indies) ; Huwe, Berl. Ent. Zeitseh. xl. p. 367. n. 39 (1895) (Java). 

 *Sphi,i.r (iliietina Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. llil. i. p. lO.S. n. 47 (1875) (Himalaya ;— coll. Oberthiir); 



Snell., Tijdsrhr. Ent. xx. p. 2. n. 12 (1877) (Java) : id., /..•, xxii. p. 64. n. 6 (1879) (S. Celebes); 



Pagenst., Iris iii. p. 2. n. 1 (1890) (Palawan). 

 Sjdiinr eiisnarimie, Boisduval, I.e. p. 109. n. 49 (1875). 



