( 467 ) 

 39;"). Cephonodes hylas. 



.S>/»/u- A///.(.s- Linn.', .U.nil. Plant, p. :,:V.\ (1771 ) ((Jliina) ; Miill., Xahn:<., S„/,pf. p. ;!0:!. n. .'jll (177i;) ; 



Goeze, K/il. li,;/tr. iii. 2. p. 204. n. 5 i,17«0); (Jmel., Si,sl. .Vri/. i. f). p. 2;!S7. u. ilo (1790) • 



Donov., lux. China t. 43. f. 2 (170'.1). 

 Se.ia hjihix, Fabricius, Syxl. E„t. ii. p. .147. n. 2 (1775) ; i.l., f^,„r. L,s. ii. p. l:-,4. n. 4 (17H1) (partim); 



id., .Mant. Ins. ii. p. 99. n. 4 (17H7) (partim) ; id., Kii/. Si/xl. iii. 1. p. 379. n. ;) (179:!) (partim); 



Walk., LiH Lep. /n.i. B. M. viii. p. 84. n. 9. (ISfid) (partim). 

 Cephaitodea Injh.i, Hiibner, Ver:. hek. Schm. p. 131. n. 1402 (1822) (partim). 

 Macragloi^m hi/hix var., Koch, I/idu-Aiixtr. Lep. Fauna p. 52 (1865). 

 MiK-roglossa hiihis, Boisduval, Hpei: Gen. Lip. Uel. i. p. 376 n. 72 (1875) (partim). 

 ILinark hylax, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 522. n. 2 (1877) (partim). 



c? ? . Abdomen with a black and deep red belt, sixth tergite with a black 

 mesial patcli, which bears often some red scales; underside of palpus, breast, mesial 

 patches of first abdominal sternites, side-patches of posterior sternite, white, breast 

 often slightly yellowish ; tail black, green above (yellowish in faded specimens) ; 

 rest of underside of abdomen brown-red. Foretibia without apical thorn, but with 

 some short spines like most preceding species (PI. LXIV. f. 17). Individually 

 variable in colour and size. 



c?. Ninth and tenth segments as} nimetiical (PI. XLIII. f. l."3_18) ; tenth 

 tergite twisted, apex pointing towards the right side, the right half alone developed, 

 forming an obtnsely pointed hook ; left jjart of tergite reduced to a i)iece of chitin 

 (I), visible in a ventral or a left-side view ; sternite without process, represented 

 by a low rounded ridge (Xv). Right clasper (PI. LI. f. 22. 23) large, broadly sole- 

 sliaped, ventral edge rounded or angulate in middle ; left clasper reduced, broadly 

 sinuate apically, the upper lobe produced, the ventral one broad and short, both 

 lobes clothed at and near the edge with short spines and longer bristles (PL LI. 

 f. 22—24). Penis-fannel ratlier small (p-f), with long bristles. 



Larva figured of tlie African and Indian subspecies. 



Hub. Aethiopian Region ; India to Japan ; Flores to Australia. 



Three snbsi)ccies, which agree e.\actly in colour, but difi'er constantly in the 

 sexual armature of the c?c?. 



a. C. hi/las virescens. 

 Marraglossa hylas, Boisduval (non Liuue, 1771), in Deleg., I'oy. Afr. Auslr. p. 594. p. 95 (1847) 

 (Natal); Mab., Ann. Soc. Ent. France p. 299 (1879) (Madag.) ; Dew., Mitth. Milnch. Ent. Ver. 

 iii. p. 23 (1879) (Chinchoxo) ; Oberth., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova xviii. p. 735. n. 86 (1883) (Shoa, 

 vi.); Moschl,, Ahh. Zool. Bat. Ges. 117,// xxxiii. p. 288. n. 85(1884) (CaflPraria ; = ^«'«.s ex 

 errore !). 

 Marrixjlossnm apu.^, Gui'rin (noii Boisduval, 1833), in Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss, vi. p. 386 (1845) 



(Abyssinia). 

 Mun-oijlossa ap„s, Boi.sduval, in Deleg., Voy. Afr. Auslr. p. 594. n. 96 (1847) (Natal). 

 Pofulaea rircsnns Wallengren, Kam,l. Sr. Vet. AL Handl. (2). v. 4. p. 17 (1865) (Oaffraria). 

 *Marruglussa om/inis Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Ilel. i. p. 376. n. 70 (1875) (Senegal ; Casamance ; 



Natal ; Sierra Leone ; Asbanti ;— coll. Obertbiir). 

 Ilcmaris hylas, Butler, /.,•. (1877) (partim) ; Saalm., Lep. Mad,ig. p. 117. n. 260. t. 3. f. 40 (1884) ■ 

 Druce, in Jameson, Slary Rear Col. p. 440 (1887) (Aruwimi, iii.) ; id., in Moloney H' Aj)- 

 I Forestry p. 492. n. 1 (1887) ; Mcischl., Abh. Senk. yalurf. Ges. xv. p. 67. u. 147 (1890) (Gold 



[ Coast) ; Dist., \at. Transvaal p. 236 (1892) (Zoutpansberg, v.). 



I Cephonodes hylas, Butler, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 674. n. 155 (1893) (Zomba, i.) ; id., /.,•. p. 843. 

 , n. 121 (1896) (Nyassald., ii. iii.) ; Hamps., I.e. (1892) (partim) ; Joann., Ann. Soc. Ent France 



, p. 430. n. 20 (1894) (Mahi^ Seychelles) ; Fawc. Trans. Zool. Soe. Lond. xv. p. 312. n 16 t 48. 



I f. 13-18 (/.). 19 (y;.) (1901). 



' Sesia. hylas, VVestwood, in Gates, Malub leld. p. 355 (1881), 

 I Cephonodes virescens, Kirby, /.c. ii. 6 (1892). 

 I Cephonodes conjiius, id. I.e. p. 628. n. 8 (1892). 



