( 145 ) 



Body above pale browu, ])alefit on the sides. A black oblicjue line on each side 

 from base of antenna to collar ; edge of collar and upper edge of mesothoracic 

 tegnia rather broadly black, especially the latter ; abdomen (rather soiled) with 

 a black mesial line and black lateral patches. Underside cinnamon bistre brown : 

 first segment of palpus pale. 



Wings above. Forewing : wood-brown, witli the following brownish liluck 



markings : two very oblique autemedian (postal lines across apex of cell, followed by 

 a short streak in cell, and continued from M^ to inner margin, which they reacli 

 about 5 mm. from base, connected with base by a streak, interspace filled up witli 

 black behind ; two heavy discal streaks R^ — M-, tlie upper one the longer, a third 

 streak 11^ — R^ more oblique ; the discal lines crossed by these streaks not well 

 expressed, being represented by blackish brown clouds or patches, the lines coming 

 out more clearly beyond M- ; a heavy, oblique, apical line ; some small submarginal 



spots ; fringe brownish black with white dots. Hindwing: mummy brown, jialer 



towards base ; fringe sjiotted with white. 



Underside mummy brown, somewhat greyish. Forewing with a vestigial 



discal band nearer distal margin than cell, a thin ajiical line. Hindwing with 



two vestigial distal bands. 



?. Vaginal plate (PI. XXI. f. 11) resembling somewhat that of ligustri \ 

 mouth of vagina proximal, a small folded ridge in front of it, the ridge continued 

 on both sides as a longitudinal fold to apex of plate. 



Length of forewing 3<s mm. 



Hub. Japan. 



One specimen in the British Museum, ex coll. Leech. 



116. Hyloicus pinastri. 



Sphinx phiastri Linn(5, Sijsl. Nut. ed. x. p. 492. n. 20 [MM). 



Hyloicus pinastri, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclim. p. 139. n. 1483 (1822). 



Anceryx pinastri, Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 223. n. 1 (185(5). 



*Eyloicus asiaticiis Butler, Proc. Zool. Sue. Load. p. 260. n. 58 (1875) (Scinde V : — Mus. Brit.). 



Sphinx saniptri Strecker, Lfp. p. 118. t. 13. f. 18 (1876). 



cJ ? . Antenna three-sevenths {S) or a little more than one-third (?) the 

 length of the forewing, slightly iucrassate distally. Palpus not so much produced 

 as in ckersis and allies, rather slender, especially in ?. Armature of foreleg weak, 

 none of the spines obviously prolonged ; foretibia only with a few apical and lateral 

 spines, first tarsal segment as long as the next three together ; midtarsns without 

 comb, the proximal spines of row 4 not being essentially longer than the more 

 distal spines ; hindtibia witliout spines ; spurs long, with or without spines, long 

 distal one of hindtibia two-thirds or three-fourths the length of the first tarsal 

 segment ; this longer than the four other segments together. 



(?. Tenth abdominal tergite rather strongly curved, broad, tapering to a point, 

 somewhat flattened and sulcate above, concave beneath (PI. XXVIIL f IS) ; 

 steruite completely divided into two narrow, somewhat curved, lobes. C'lasjier 

 sole-shaped, rounded-narrowed from before middle to ape.x ; harpe (PI. XXX VI II. 

 f. 11. \2) with two processes, a ventral one which is broad, obtuse, and a much 

 longer upper one which is cylindrical or flattened, tapering to the pointed end, 

 somewhat curved, pointing ventro-distad. Penis-sheath (PI. XXVIII. f. 4'.i. ."iH) 

 apically produced into a concave process. 



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