( no:] ) 



Anal angle of bimlwiug ver\- obtuse ; 

 spur as before ; forewing not 

 angulate ; mid- and bindtarsus 

 with prominent combs . . I'XL. A ntim'phele. 



(JXIV. ClIHOMIS.— Typus : erofus. 



Sphinx, Cramer (hoh Limio, 17.J8), I'a/i. Km/, ii. p. 12 (1777). 



Chrnmis Hiibner, Verr.. M:. Schw. p. 13S (lS-i2) (type: erotus). 



Dcili'philn, Boisduval {iion Laspeyres, IHDll). in T"//. A^troldhe, Lrp. p. ISO (1S:52). 



Cliaerocaiiipd, Walker {nan IJuponchel, 1836), List Lip. las. B. .1/. viii. p. 146 (IS.')!')). 



Darapaa id., l.r. p. 18(5 (185C)) (partim). 



tliiathothlibns Wallengre.n, HVch. Enl. .Umi. iv. p. 43 (IS60) (type : erolw). 



Thi't-etva, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Hit. i. p. Go'J (1H92). 



c? ? . Close to Deilephiia, but end-segment of antenna with very long bristles 

 and witliout scales, the bristles several times as long as the segment, which 

 resembles the 77/('/Y'/r«,-segmeut, but is k)nger. Genal process more sharjijy 

 triangular than in Deilephiia. Hindtarsus very long, reaching beyond tip of 

 abdomen when the leg is straightened out. 

 Larva with a series of eight ocelli. 



Pupa similar to that of Deilephiia ; cremastcr bifid, each process again divided 

 into two horizontal, conical, and pointed processes, the external ones ending again 

 in two hooks, of which one curves ventrad, the other dorsad (Pi. LXIV. f. 18) ; 

 tongue-case caricate. 



Ilab. Oriental Region. 



Two species, which are structurally so dissimilar in several resjiccts tluit they 

 might be treated as representing two genera. 

 Key to the species : 



Forewing crossed by straight lines ; raesonotum 



with two yellow spots in front .... 4"-!o. Ch. hellode.^. 

 Lines of forewing curved, indistinct; mesonotum 



without yellow spots ..... 424. Ch. erot'is. 



424. Chromis erotus. 



SphiiLr erutnx Cramer, Pup. h:.ini.\\. p. IJ. t. Iil4. f, r. (1777) (bab. '/) ; Goeze, Kid. Dri/lr. iu. 2. 

 p. 22;i. n. 72 (1781)) ; Fabr., Spec. lim. ii. p. 145. n. 24 (1781) ; id.. Maul. Ins. ii. p. '.15. n. 27 

 (1787) ; Gmel., SyM. Nat. i. 5. p. 237'J. n. G'j (1790) ; Fabr., Kiil. Si/sl. iii. 1 p. :!G5. n. 28 

 (1793) ; Turt., .S>/. Xat. \v. 2. p. 172 (180(;) ; Prillw., Str/I. Ki,l. ZvV. xx.\ii. p. 241 (IH71). 



Chrnmh emtiix, Hiibner, Ver:. hek. Srhni. p. 138. n. 1479 (1822). 



Cluieriicanipa emtns, Cotis & Swinh., Cat. Moths Ind. i. p. 20. n. 107 (1887) (Australia) ; Druce, 

 Pmr. Zoiil. Snr. Kinil. p. 220. n. 4 (1888) (Fiji ; = aiidainancnsh = erax = eroloides) ; Hatnps., 

 in Blanf., Famiii Brit. Ind., Moths i. p. 94. n. 145 (1892) {= andamunensis = erotiiides ; 

 Andamans ; Au.'-tralia ; Solomons). 



c? ? . Eye large. Antenna cliiblied in botli sexes, more distinctly in ? than in S. 

 Foretarsus (except distal segments) and foretibia broad in c? ; scent-organ of 

 forecoxa very strongly developed. First segment of hindtarsus longer than tibia, 

 and in S a little longer than segments 2 and 3 together, in ? as long as segments 

 2 to 5. Li colour individually variable ; the ? $ from the Lido-Malayan Subregion 

 constantly different from the ? ? from the Papuan Subregion. 



6- Tenth tergite peculiar (Pi. XLIV. f. 21) : strongly compressed, iiooked, 



