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?. Ridge ill front of vaginal orifice (PI. XVIII. f L':2) witli a small mesial 

 siims ; the edge eitlier irregularly denticulate or smooth. 



Larva mentioned by Graeser; said to be similar to that of Sphinx ocellata. 



A thorough study of the Amur larvae is a desideratum. The larvae of the Amur 

 SiAnmj'uhie have nearly all been found by the travellers who collected for commercial 

 j>ur])Oses, but not one is ])roperly described. 



llah. Amurland. 



In the Ti'ing Museum H, 3 ? ?. 



h. M. (lasrldeirit.srlii (jaschkeirifsrhi. 



Smerinthim di/ras var. 0., Walker, l.r. viii. p. 251. sub n. 13 (1856) (Shanghai, J ). 



Smeriiithits ijuschh'witsrhi Bremer >!c Grey, l.l.c.c. ; Men., Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Pdr., Lep. i. 



Siip2>l. p. '.U. n. 1563. t. 13. f. 4 (1857) (Pekin) ; Walk., /.-■. p. 40 (1864); Bart., in Riihl, 



Grosf:xrhn,. ii. p. 161 (lOOn) (Pekin); Staud. & Reb., Cat. Lep. ed. iii. p. 99. n. 722 (1901) 



(partim ; China sept.). 

 Smeriiitliiis gasrhkecitschi (!), Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Met. i. p. 19. n. 3 (1875). 

 Tr'iplnijim gasrhkevilxchl (!), Butler, Tran.<!. Zool. Sor. Loud. ix. p. .588. n. 21 (1«77) (Pekin; 



■■ Mongolia" ex err. ?) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. Het. Mits. Ox. i. p. 27. n. 105 (IS'J.') (Shantung). 

 Smerlnlhii.-i yii.srhk-ewilrhi (!), Austaut, Le Ndlnral xiv. p. 68 (1892). 

 Maiumha ijaschkeicitsrhi, Kirby. Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 707. n. 11 (1892). 

 Sinerinthus CDinplnceiis, Bartel, Lr. p. 163 (1900) (partim ; Shanghai). 



c? ? . Upper- and underside of body and wings paler than in the other subspecies; 

 mesial line of abdomen not marked or vestigial ; anal angle of hindvving above 

 with a greyish white patch pro.\imally of the brown spot. Underside darker in 

 S than in ?, hindwiug pinkish grey in ?, with the marginal area more or less 

 pale pinkish tawny, in S uniformly drab-colour, scarcely with a vestige of red. 

 Fringe ol both wings conspicuously white between the veins. 



? . Vaginal plate as in carsta/ijcni, the edge rather thicker. 



Larva not known. 



Ilab. North China : Pekin. 



In the Paris Museum I c?, 2 ? ? from north of Pekin (A. David), one of the 

 ? ? transferred to the Tring Museum. 



This and the following are possibly seasonal forms of the same Chinese 

 subspecies. 



c. M. gaschkewitschi complacent. 



*Smerinthii.i rumplaeens Walker, Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. xxxi. p. 40 (1864) (Amoy, $ ;— Mus. Brit.) ; 



Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 30. n. 19 (1875) ; Bartel, in Riihl, Grosxsrhni. ii. p. 163 (1900) 



(partim ; Amoy). 

 Triptiiijon omijdiicem, Buller, Tnins. Znol. Soc. LumL ix. p. 688. n. 19 (IS77) (partim; Amoy); 



id., llhiMr. Till'. Spec Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 2. t. 41. f. 4 (1879) (partim). 

 Miii-iimlxi ciiiiiplacfiin, Kirby, Cat. Lej>. Het. i. p. 707. n. 8 (1892) (partim). 

 .Udnimhn ijdschkewitxchi ab. c(implai:e)i-'<, Rothschild, Nov. Zool,. i. p. 98 (1894). 

 l'<ih/j)ti/chii« giischk-eipit«chi,ljeech, Tram. Ent. Sue. Lmul. p. 276. D. 36 (1898) (partim; Moupin, vi.). 



c? ? . Darker than the two preceding forms ; fringe of forewing with the white 

 spots vestigial ; underside of hindwiug and of body washed with red all over. 

 Forewing rather more elongate than in the other subspecies. 



? . Vaginal plate as in the preceding form, the ridge thicker than in carstanjeni 

 and the sinus much less deep than in the following subspecies. 



Larva not kuown. 



Hub, Southern and Central China: Amoy, Foochow, Kiangsi, Moupin. 



