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Occurrence outside the Malagassic 

 Subrcgion. 



Philampelinae — nuitiiinni. 



^y^phclc nfiuipintt oentqiitm 

 * — — stirtica . 

 *Teiiinitrit tfrmitfiduri 

 * — manjittala roiiiuianit . 

 * — fuinosa pvfknri'y't 

 * — jtalpitlis 

 *Tfmin/r/jiit/.t littslt 

 *S/)Iiiniju>t(H'j/iop'S/.-^ ub.iiln i(--> 



Aleiititura wealcniianiii 

 *.\fartvfjlo><i<((iii (illitamll . 

 * — siirur .... 

 * — niilrux 

 * — (Wsalon 

 * — pachyverus . 



Choerocampinae. 



^Cfhr'n/ h/giittata 



— liiwata liconifra 

 *Ettc/doi'oii ine(j(tera lacorf/nh't'/ 



BasUithia mmha 

 * — laticoni'is . . . . 

 *IIipp(itiuti hiitwld . 

 * — saclacvruiii 

 * — butleri .... 



— balsamhiae. 



* — geryou .... 



— OHtris . . . . . 



— es'tn . . . . . 

 *Tlirirlra uyjthcti>< intcitsa 



The other subsp. African. 



The other suUsp. African. 



Africa. 



Africa ; Europe ; Asia. 

 The other subsp. Africau. 

 Africa. 



Africau. 



Africa. 

 Africa. 

 The other subsp. African. 



Tlic Malagassic Spliiiigidae are thoroughly Africau, the ouly sjiecies indi- 

 cating an affinity with India not shared by the Africau Continent being 

 Hippotion (jenjon, which is close to the Indo-Australian relox, and Maassenia 

 heijdmi, which stands intermediate between Nephele aud the Oriental genus 

 Acosmeri/u: The existence of four sj)ecies of Cephonodes in the Subregion aud of 

 five Macroylo.'iXKiu, while Africa has only one species of each genus, is a striking 

 feature of the fauna, which, however, does not demonstrate a closer affinity with 

 India or with Australia, but is the consequence of the Subregion being an 

 Archipelago, and the wide separation of the islands offering a condition for 

 the development of sjjecial species. The various species of Cephonodes aud 

 Macroglossum, indeed, do not occur over all the islauds, and most of them are 

 quite restricted in range. The similarity between the Malagassic and Oriental 

 faunae is much inferior to that existing between the African Continent aud 

 India. However, the few affinities which there are, taken together with the 

 preKcuce ol' African genera in India, and of Oriental ones in Africa, prove a 

 rather close connectiou between the Aetliioiiiau and Oriental faunae, each having 

 prolited from the otiier. There is no such agreement between Africa aud 

 iSoutli America. These <!outineuts have no genus in common except the two 



