^ 720 ) 



/'. (\ enphorhiac ciijihorbiae iili. xii/rcscrns iioiu. uov. 



DeUephila tsulae Boisduval {umi Hufnagel, 17G6), Imn. Ifisf. Up. ii. p. 2fi. t. 50. f. 1 (1834) (Italy): 

 Dap., in God., Up. Frame, Siippl. ii. p. 18. n. 4. t. 2. f. 1 (1835) ; Frey., iV. lieyti: iv. p.' .'.. 

 n. 475. t. 291. f. 1 (1842) ; Herr.-Sch., Eur. Schm. ii. p. 88. f. 3 (1847) ; Led., V,rh. Xool. IS.,I. 

 G(x. Wim ii. p. '.11 (1852) : Walk., Lid Lep. Ins. Ii. M. viii. p. 106. n. 3 (1856) ; Dep., Hnll. 

 .%r. Eiit. France p. 28 (18(;8) (painted specim.) : Kiink., Und. p. 39 (1868); Selys-Longch.- 

 C. Ii. Sur. E„t. IM,j. xi. p. 16 (1868) ; Boisd., Sper. den. Up. I let. i. p. 163. n. 5 (1875) : But]., 

 Trans. Zoul. Sor. Lund. ix. p. 571. n. 19 (1877) ; Curo, IhiU. Sor. Ent. Ikil. xxi. p. 80 (189(1). 



Deilephila enphorhiae '! ab ? esidar, Staudinger & AVocke, Cal. Lep. p. 16. n. 16. b (1861). 



Peilephild enphorhiae ab. emlae, Romanoff, .Mini. Lip. i p. 70(1884) (Tifiis, 1 (J) ; Mina-l'al. >>;• 

 Failla-Ted., Nal. Sicil. vii. p. 42 (1889) ; Bartel, Le. ii. p. 87 (1899). 



neilephil,, enphorhiae, Ribbo, Iris ii. p. 186. t. 4. f. 4 (1889). 



Deilcpliibi enphorhiae var. esulae, Staudinger & Rebel, Cat. Lep. ed. iii. [i. lni'. n. 74!>. c ( 1901). 



Costal area of forewing above extended blackish brown, brown disscal bund 

 also deeper in tint than in the ordinary euphorhiae . 



The specimen figured by Ribbe is an extreme develo])ment, the pale area 

 ()(' tlic forewing being reduced to a narrow band. 



[f. C. eaphorbiae fHpliorhiae ab. rc-itricta (PI. VIll. f. 11, c?). 



A c? in the Tring Museum has the forewing entirely tawny-olive above, exeept 

 a small spot at end of cell, and a series of small elongate, hastate or linear, spots 

 on the disc u})ou the veins; frinje of hinder margin huffish white, that of distal 

 margin clay-colour',; marginal band dee})er brown. Disc of hindwing, above, 

 yellowish red, fur less bright tliuu in ordinary enpliorhiue. Underside of body 

 and wings much shaded and speckled with brown, especially the wings ; forewing 

 with very little red, hindwing yellow-red on disc. 



The specimen was caught on the drilling-ground at Bamberg ; we received 

 it from A. Heyne. 



e. C. eiiphofhiac conspicua subsj). no v. 



JDeilejihila enphorhiae, Mann, Wien. Enl. .Mo/i. vi. p. 06 (1862) (Bruasa). 



Deilephila enphorhiae ab. paraliay, Staudinger {/wn Nickerl, 1837), Hor. Sue. Ent. Euss. xiv, p. 297 



(1878) (Asia Minor) ; Hofm., Gross.-<chm. p. 30. sub n. 5 (1894). 

 Deilejthila enphorhiue var. (ab.) puralias, Holtz, lllustr. Zeitschr. Ent. ii. p. 63 (1897)(Cilicia, E. vii.). 

 Deili]>hihi enphorhiae, Bartel, in Riihl, Grusssehni. ii. p. 79 (1899) (partim). 

 Deilephila enphorhiae var. hil/iyins, Staudinger {mm Walker, 1856), in Staud. & Reb., C:it. Lep. 



ed. iii. p. 103. n. 749. f (1901) (partim). 



c? ? . A large and jialc ibrm resembling small specimens of nicaca. Meso- 

 thoracic tegula with vestige of white upper border. Costal margin of forewing 

 with little brown scaling, jiatcli beyond end of cell isolated, very sharply marked, 

 distal marginal area as jiale as disc. Underside of body and wings as pale as 

 in ccnfralasidc. Hpines of first pi'otarsal segment stout. 



Larva varying from yellow to black; two rows of large lateral spots; very 

 few or no dots, differing in this respect very conspicuously from citp/i. CKpliorbiac. 



Ilab. Syria and Asia Minor. 



In the Tring Museum 'i S S and 7 larvae from : Beirut (('//«') ; Haifa. 



/. C. Htiphorbiae siekei. 

 Deilephila siehei Piuigeler, Berl. Enl. Zeit. xlvii. p. 235. t. 3 ( ^J, ? ) (1903) (Bulghar Dagh). 



c??. Mesothoracic tegula with pale upper border. Costal median patch ot 

 ibrrwing much reduced on npperside, not distinct below. External s]iiues of first 



