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c. C. lincatu liwrnicoides. 



Ihitephiht lirnniiiui Miskin, /'(•-„■. AVi,/. Soc. Qiieenxld. viii. p. 110. ii. .'!l' (IK'.tl) (partim : ]irisl)iinej ; 



id., I.e. p. 03 (18!il) (Miickay); Lower, Pmr. Linn. Soc .V. .S'. 11'. xxii. p. .'S2 (IX'.iT) : id., /.-•. 



x.xiii. p. 54 (IH'.IH) (Adelaide ; Brisbane ; Mackay). 

 IhUcphila lirnniirdidi'x Lucas, J'mr. Roy. Sue. Qucinslil. viii. p. 73 (IH'.ll) (Toowoomba ; Rock- 



hampton). 



cj ? . A small and jnile form. Antenna wholly creamy white above. Ahdomen 

 with two hlack side-.spots, no black side-dots on the following segments. First 

 ]irotarsal segment with four long sj)ines, mostly witiiout smaller spines between, 

 second segment with one long .spine at end and often a shorter one more basal. 



JInL Australia. 



In the Tring Museum U c?c?, 12 ?? from: Dawson R., <,»ueiMisland ; 

 Koebonnie, Derby, and (Sherlock li., West Australia. 



Api)arently much rarer in N. S. Wales and Queensland than in West Australia. 



084. Celerio calverleyi. 



Dah-iMla ath-erhyl Grote, Proc. Eiit. Soc. Philad. v. p. 56. t. 1 f. 4 ((J) (1865) (Cuba); Grote 

 & Rob., iliid. V. p. 156. n. 48 (1865) ; Grote, ibid. vi. p. 328 (1867) ; id.. Trans, .[nier. Enl. Sw. 

 iii. p. 184 (1871) ; Butl., Traii.'i. Znol. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 560. n. (1877) : Gundl., Cuntr. Ent. 

 Cubaiia p. 108 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 665. n. 9 (1802). 



S- Thora.x with wiiite stripes as in lineata, forewing nearly as in (/allli. 

 Antenna pale. No dorsal markings on abdomen. 

 llab. Cuba. 

 Not seen. 



CLVl. PERGESA.— Typus : porcdhts. 



Sphinx Linne, Sijst. Nat. ed. x. p. 489 (1758) (partim ; type : ocellatu). 



Spci-lrtim Scopoli, Tntr. Hixt. Nat.iXi {ITil) (partim ; includes type of Sph'uui). 



Deihjihila Laspeyres, Jenaisclie Allg. Litem tnr-Zeit. iv. p. 99 (1800) (partim ; type; ncrii). 



Elpenor Oken, Lehrh. Natii)-f/. iii. 1. p. 760 (1815) (partim ; type : iierii). 



Theretra Hiibuer, IVc;. hel:. Sdiin. p. 134 (1822) (partim ; type : cqucdris = nesms). 



Oreus id , I.e. p. 136 ( 1822) (partim ; type : finunia — bulns). 



Choerocampa Duponchel, in Godart, Li'p. France. Suppl. ii. p. 150 (1835) (partim ; type : ncrii). 



Metopsilvs Duncan, in .Jardine, XaluraL Libr. xl. p. 164 (1836) (partim ; type : nerii). 



Chteroeampa (!), Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. J/, viii. p. 126 (1866) (partim). 



Pergesa id., l.r. viii. p. 140 (1858) (partim ; type : jmreelliis). 



Smerinthu.1, Oberthiir (non Latreille, 1802), Et. Ent. v. p. 25 (1881). 



Cinrir/on Butler, Tranx. Ent. Ni<c. Lund. p. 1 (1881) (type : askoldeiisis). 



(??. tSimilar to Celerio. Palpus hairy at the sides. Eye strongly lashed. 

 Antenna very feebly incrassate distally, almost filiform in S , slightly clubbed 

 in ?, hook gradual, consisting of seven to ten segments. Spines of abdomen weak, 

 more numerous than in Celerio. First row of spines of first protarsal segment 

 doubled at base ; pulvillus normal. 



c?. Tenth tergite slender, much narrower than the steruite ; this flat, or slightly 

 convex beneath, not keeled or boat-shaped, rounded-truncate or rounded at end. 

 Clasper broadly sole-shaped, with a dozen or more friction-scales ; harpe (PI. Lll. 

 f. 9) ending in a more or less spatulate process, whicli is concave on the 

 up])erside and is slightly curved upwards. Penis-sheath without apical process, 

 but with a subapical oblique dentate ridge (PI. LVI. f. oo). 



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