( 776 ) 



$. Tlie edge of tlic inontli of the vagina ratlicr liigli, elevated to a tliiii .smooth 

 ridge, wliieli gradually fades away distally. 



Larva with one large eye-spot on fourtii segment ; a pale stripe IVom liftli 

 spgiucmt to horn, vestigial or absent from tliorax ; horn short and stout in adult 

 larva, long and .^-shaped iu youuger stages ; ground-colour green or tawuv. — 

 Food-))iants : I'ifig ; ^/is,s■/^s. 



I/'cl: South and South-East Africa. 



Jn the Tring Museum several larvae, 8U-odd specimens from: Cape Oolony ; 

 Natal ; Transvaal. 



7:}ii. Theretra alectc 



S/,l,!iiy <,l,-rl„ Linni', .%■-■'■ AW. ed. x. p 4!)-i. n. 1« (ITr.K) ; Auriv., K. Sr. V,t. .1/.. //.(».//. xix. .'). 



p. i:i^. n. IT.'i (lHH->) (rec. orit.). 

 Jsopks (il,;-l„, Hiiljlier, Ver-. hrk. Sr/im. p. 1 :'.:,. ii. 145:i (IS-'l')- 

 Chu<'r„;iw/i,i <(l,'cln, Walker, /.,xl Lip. Ins. 11. .1/. viii. p. l.'^O. u. :i (IHoC) ; Staud. & Reb., Cut. Lip. 



ed. iii. p. lo;j. n. 757(11101). 

 ClweioramiHi aleclo, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lvp. Hit. i. p. •2l"J. n. tj (187.')). 

 Tlu-riti-a alectu, Kirby, Oit. Lep. Hel. i. p. 650. n.'6 (189-i). 

 DtUrphHa alcito, Bartel, in Ruhl, Grossschm. ii. p. 113 (1900). 



c? ? . Cavity of palpus not well defined proximally, owing to some long scales 

 lirojecting over it. External row of spines of first protarsal segment single, or 

 jiaitially doubled. Line .5 of forewing heavy, sometimes also 1, lines 2 and 4 weak, 

 (j and 7 vestigial or absent. Dorsal lines of the abdomen often absent, sometimes 

 rather plainly marked. 



c?. Tenth abdominal tergite ratiier narrow, underside feebly concave ajiically, 

 clothed with erect hairs, apex rounded, feebly sinuate ; sternite obtusely pointed, 

 apex curved upwards, strongly convex beneath. Clasper with numerous friction- 

 scales ; harpe slender, feebly *n* -shaped, pointed. Penis-sheath (PI. LVIIL f. 11) 

 at the right side with a short multidentate process, and at the left with a long 

 obliijue row of teeth situated upon a slightly elevated ridge, which ends in a slender 

 jtrocess that lies closely upon the sheath. 



?. Vagiual armature of the same type as in esoii (PI. XLL f. lo) ; the 

 ridge before the mouth of the vagina rather thin, but well chitinised and smooth, 

 becoming gradually lower postically, forming a kind of halfmoon. 



Ijiirva : seven eye-si)ots, the five posterior ones often reduced and incomplete ; 

 pale dorso-lateral stripe of thorax not so prominent as in H. celerio ; horn rather 

 short and stout in last stage. — Food-plants : Vitis ; Psijchotria ; Paederia ; etc. 



Chrysalis : tongue-case strongly compressed, i)rominent ; cremaster conical, 

 somewhat depressed. 



llab. Oriental liegion, extending into the Palaearctic Kegiou : from the 

 Caspian Sea and Asia Minor to the Key Islands ; uot in China, Jajjan, and Ceylon. 



Two subs])ecics : 



K. I'll, alecto (I I ret 0. 



S/ihhi.r uliclu Linnc, l.r. (176H) (India) ; id., Mux. Lml. Ulr. p. 357 (170-t) ; Houtt., Xatttrl. Hist. i. 

 11. p. 450. n. 1« (1767) ; Linni', SijM. Sat. ed. xii. p. m^. n. 2Q (1767) ; Drury, lUniti: Ex. 

 Lis. ii. p. 4H. .<: Index t. -'7. f. 4 (1771-73) (Madras) ; Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 546. n. 31 (1775) ; 

 Cram., Pup. Exut. ii. p. 62. t. 137. f. d (1777) ; Goeze, Enl. Bcylr. iii. ■_'. p. 173. n. I'D (1780) ; 

 Fabr., Sppr. Ins. ii. p. 152. n. .52 (1781) ; iJ., Mant. Ins. ii. p. 97. n. 56 (1787) : Gmel., S;ist. 

 Siif. i. 5. p. 2384. n. 20 (1790) ; Fabr., Ent. %.s/. iii. 1. p. 376. n. 59 (1793) ; Hcrr.-Sch., Eur 

 ^r/im. ii. p. 85. 11, 10. Sj,I,;hi/. t. 2. f. 4. 5 (1847). 



