Puhl. :,.XII. fJiL CEPHONODES; SATASPES; DEILEPHILA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 249 



Genitalia very similar to those of tityus. Piilvilhis strongly developed. Thorax and forewing olive-green; mar- 

 ginal band of forewing reddish brown; hindwing brownish red, without marginal band. Abdomen with a brown- 

 red belt and a black fan-tail. Larva ou Scabious, more rarely on Asperula and Cephalaria, end of June, 

 July and again in the autumn. Ground-colour very variable, ranging from whitish yellow to bluish green 

 and from pale red to dark red; a broad lateral stripe white; horn reddish 3'ellow; dark patches between the 

 prologs. Pupa red-brown. The moth in May, Jmie and August. Distributed from Croatia through South- 

 East Europe to Asia Minor and Transcaucasia. 



H. rubra Hamps. (40 e). Red-brown; forewing with vitreous spots, which are rather variable and more rubra. 

 or less dusted with red-brown. Hindwing without transparent area. Tlie pulvillu.5, in contradistinction to croa- 

 tica, is very small. The genitals of the cJ resembling those of croatica and tityus, but the process of the right 

 harpe is longer. — Only known from Kashmir. 



H. dentata Slqr. (42 f). Very rare in collections. Third abdominal segment only yellowi.sh white at dcntata. 

 the sides. Fan-tail red mixed with black. Forewing olive-green, with a straight tran.sparent band. The vitreous 

 spot of the hindwing small, the base of the wing green. The genitalia are nearest to those of fuciformis. — 

 Syria: Aintab (north of Antiochia). 



H. ducalis Sfgr. (= tamiri Gr.-Grsh.) (40 d). Differs from dentata above all in the j^ellowish white on ducalis. 

 the third abdominal segment being complete above, in the absence of the pulvillus and in the structure of the 

 genitalia. — Transcaucasia and North Afghanistan eastwards to the Pamirs and Transalai ; probably more widely 

 distributed in Central Asia. 



25. Genus: €V']»ii4»iio<lvs Hbn. 



An essentially tropical genus, in which the cell of the hindwing is even much shorter than in Hae- 

 morrhagia and in which the subcostal and first radial are always stalked like the third radial and first median. 

 Pupa blackish red-brown, rounded at the anterior end, with feeble frontal tubercles, cremaster long-conical 

 and almost smooth. 



As in the species of Haemorrhagia with vitreous wings these are covered with scaHng also m Cephonodes 

 when the moth emerges from the chrysalis. 



C. hylas L. (40 d). Fore tibia without apical thorn. Underside of thorax white or slightly yellowish, hylas. 

 Upperside of the body green, abdomen with red belt. — - Distributed from West Africa to Queensland, and 

 from India to Japan; very plentiful. Larva exceedingly variable. As the species will be dealt with more fully 

 in Vol. X, we mention in this place only that the Indo-Palearctic form is C. hylas hylas L. Flies in daytime. 



26. Genus : KataKpes Moore. 



An imitation of Xylocopa, a genus of Bumblebees. Antennae in ^ not club-shaped, in ? distally feebly 

 swollen. Cell of hindwing more than twice as long as broad. Wings scaled. Otherwise similar to Haemorrhagia. 

 Genitalia of <3 very peculiar on account of the atrophy of the anal sternite, the reduction of the valves 

 and the strong development of the harpes. Early stages not known. — Indo-Malayan, one species occur- 

 uig northward to China. 



S. infernalis Westw. (40e). Thorax yellow above. In the cJ the posterior abdominal segments beneath infernalis. 

 likewise yellow. Abdomen above with or without yellow belt. — From Shanghai, Central and West China south- 

 ward to Burma and North India; in Chma in June and Juli. in the south already from March. Fhes by day. 



D. Subfamily: Philampelinae. 



The anal segment of the o" not divided longitudinally, always syuinietrical. The abdominal sternite 7 of the ? mem- 

 branous at the apex, never bearing spines. ;Mesonotum never with a high i-i-ost, and the palpi never widened laterally in 

 angle-shape. 



The species of this subfamily often exliibit a striking resemblanee to forms of other subfamilies. Dahira recalls Oj;y- 

 (iinhuli/.r: Deidamia, Temnora, etc., Smerinthus-. Macroglossum resembles Sesia, Hacmorrhaijia and Perigonia; and DeUephila, 

 Chromis and Ampelophaga recall Chaerocampinae: etc. 



The generalised genera of the Old World fronx which most of the genera of the Eastern Hemisphere can be derived 

 without difficvUty are Nephele. which is represented in abundance in tropical Africa, and DeUephila, which is predominantly 

 Oriental. The former branch terminates with Macroglossum a,nd Rlioj>alopsyche and comprises many species which resemble 

 the Sesiinae, and the second branch, which is smaller, ends with Berulami and Darapsa, and contains forms which incline to- 

 wards the Chaerocampinae. 



27. Genus: Deilepliila Lasf. 



Eyes large, without pendant eye-lashes. Palpi large and obtuse, smoothly scaled. Antennae slightly 

 clubbed in ?, setiform in S, terminal segment long and thin. Tibiae without spines, mid tarsus with basal 



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