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S/iliiwr cmiiilvtili v;ir. ImUilur Christ, Millli. Siliir. Ent. Ges. vi. p. 34f) (1884) ; Alphdr., in Rom. 



Mim Up. V. p. -nx n. 18 (188;i) (TenerilTe) ; Bartel, in Riihl, Gi-imsdim. ii. p. 43 (1808). 

 I'rdlnjHim- convohuli Tar. </(.■</(( ii.i, Druce, Pnit: Zonl. line. Lnnd. p. 220 n. 5. (1888) (Fiji ; N. Guinea ; 



N. Hebrid. ; N. Caled. ; W. Austr.). 

 Phhfitlhmilius nmeolviili, Kirby, C<il. L,p. Ilil. i. p. COO. n. 3G (1802). 

 PItlrtfftJiotithis pseudn-cimroh'Hlif id., l.c. n. 37 (1802). 

 Plilrgrlli<mlius resfii/imciiitus, id., I.t: n. 30 (1802) ( = flisliius). 

 PJilcyrlhoiilius iirienUills, id., l.c. n. 38 (1892) ; Huwc, Brrl. Ent. Zt-itsi-hr. xl. p. 307. n. 41 (180j) 



(Java). 

 Pblrijrlhiminis uhdihniuii, Kirby, l.c. n. 40 (1893) (partim). 

 Sphinx cnnrolciili var. oricnlalix, Bartel, in Riibl, (jriisssclim. ii. p. 43 (1898). 

 Sphinx roiii'o/r«/(, Pierret, Hull. Sm; Enl. France p. 54. (1842) (gjnandr.) ; AVi.^Sli'tl. Eni. Zeit xxi. 



p. 01 (I860) (gyn.-vndr.); Pagenst., Jahrh. Xass. Ver. Nal. xxxv. p. 89 (1882) (gynaiidr.) ; 



Ecki-t., Iki: Oh.rlns.'^. Get. xxvi, p. 3. t. 2. f. 3 (1889) (gynandr.). 

 Sphinx roniolrnii var. iilicca Neviburger. Zeitschr. Ent. iv. p. 297 (1899). 

 Sphinx cnnvolruli var. nigricans Cannaviello, Bull. Sac. Ent. lUtl. xxxii. p. 295 (1900). 



c??. Fnlvillus of claw-segment decidedly longer than in the other Iferse, a 

 distinct black flap lieing present. ? more nniform in colour than the S on thorax 

 and forcwing. Mctanotnm with a red side-patch, which is more or less different 

 in tint from the abdomlMal jiatches. The various names given to this widely 

 distributed species are liased upon slightly differing individuals from various 

 countries. Although it is true that the Australian specimens are on an average 

 rather small, and have, in the c?, the disc of the hindwing just outside the cell 

 between veins R' and R' rather more brown than the African and European 

 individuals, a longer scries of specimens shows that these distinctions in size and 

 colonr do not hold good. £!uch and similar differences referred to by many authors 

 as being exhibited by individuals from this or that locality are not at all local. 



The red raetanotal and abdominal patclies are ver}' rarely replaced b}' yellow 

 ones ; such an aberrational individual is described from Nantes by Bonjour, 

 Bull. Soc. Sn. Nat. Quest France vi. p. 29 (1896). 



Thora.x : PI. LXII. f. T. 8 ; PI. LXIII. f. 1. 



cf. Tenth tcrgite ronnded-dilated before end (PI. XXVI. f. 15. 16), apex 

 comi>resscd, higher than broad, pointed ; ventral process of harpe (PI. XXXV. f. 4) 

 somewhat spatulate as in Coclo/iia J'uleiuoffitit, thu ]iatch of setiferous tubercles of 

 the clasper near the end of the harpe as in the allied species ; but the tubercles 

 resp. setae rather denser ventrally close to the harpe, and this portion of the 

 clasper a little incrassatc or even faintly produced ventrad, the slightly projecting 

 jiart being the rudiment of the process found in t/odarti. 



?. The mesial flaj) {ii) in front of the vaginal ajierture arises from an 

 impression, and is very tliin ; it belongs to the membrane connecting the seventh 

 and eighth sternites ; at each side of the vaginal orifice there stands a tubercle (c-), 

 and behind th(^ orifice ( V) another (//) (PI. XXII. f. 4. .5). 



Larva var\ ing from green to black ; head striped as in Achcrontia ; a dorso- 

 lateral yellow streak from head to horn, and yellow oblique stripes on segments 

 4 to 11, generally accentuated at the npj)er end by a yellow dot. Horn with small 

 tubercles.— Food : Concolculm, especially urcriiais. 



Pupa: tongne-sheatii recurved frontad, tip nearly reaching base. 



//rif>. Eastern hemisphere excejit tlie higiier latitudes, rarely in Siberia, straggler 

 ill northern countries. 



In the Tring Museum several larvae, and over 350 imagines from a great 

 number of localities, from Europe to the Solomons and Madagascar. 



The Berlin Museum possesses a series of individuals of both sexes — we received 



