( 18 ) 



-lAi/n. E.I.C. i. p. 267. n. CIS. t. !>. f. '-'. 2,i (/., |>.^ (\Xu) ; Mriieti-., Eniim. C'ln-p. Aiihn. Mas. Pel,-. 



Lrp. \.. Vi. n. l.W-l (I8.'i7) (Ind. or.) ; Walk., Jouni. Linn. Sue. Land. vi. p. 85. n. 14 (IRO'i) 



(Sarawak); Feld., Wim. ICnI. Monal. v. p. 30. n. 33 (ISlVi) (Ning-po) ; Moore, Aw. Z..r,^ 



Sot: Lotiil. p. 793 (186."i) (Balasore) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. 7. n. 3 (1875) ; Sjicll., 



Tijihchr. Eni. xx. p. 4. n. 15 (1877) (Java); id., Ir. p. 67 (1877) (Samatra) ; id., I.r. xxii. 



p. 63. n. 2 (1879) (S. Celebe.s); id., in Snellemann, Faunu .Midil Sumatra ii. p. -ill (1892). 

 *Aihcrunim /-Mr Westwood, Cal. Or. Enl. p. 87. t. 42. f. 2 (1848) (Mus. Oxford) ; Walk., Cat. L,/,. 



Ilrl. H.M. viii. p. 235. ii. 2 (18515) (Assam ; Ceylon) ; Wall,, Proc Enl. S<n: Lund. p. 11) (1804) 



(alive in England.). 

 Achcrontia rin-e Aloore, in Horsf. & Moore, Cal. Lrji. .l/«.s. E.LC. i. p. 267. n. 615 (18ri8) (sub syu. ; 



nom. maxima supervac). 

 Achcrontia larhe-ii-i, id., Lep. Cri/lon ii. p. 0. t. 77. f. 1. 16. Ic (/.,;)., '.) (1882) ; Pagenst., Jtilirli. 



\ags. Ver. Xat. xli. p. 103. n. 191 (1888) (Amboina) ; Hamps., in Blanf., Fuiina Brit. Ind., 



Moths i. p. 67. n. 89 (1892) ; Semp., Srhm. Philijip. ii. p. 390. n. 20. t. 9. f. 1. 2. 3 {l.,j,.) (1890) ; 



Piep., 'fijdsr/ir. Ent. xl. p. 104 (1807) (Java) ; Leech, Tr. Ent. Snc. Land. p. 275. n. .S3 (1898) 



(China, vi. vli. viii.) ; Dudg., Jvurn. Bomhan N.H. Soc. xi. p. 400. n. 89 (1898) ; Bartel, in 



Eiihl, Groxssrhm. ii. p. 25 (1899). 

 Achrrontia sli/.r, Swinhoe, I'rin\ /Cool. Soc. Lund. p. 513. n. 1 (1884) (Karachi, vii. viii., larva 



difl'erent on diff. plants). 

 Muiiduca larhexis, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 700 n. 5 (1891) ; Hiiwe, Berl. Ent. Zcilsckr. xl. p. 308. 



n. 42 (1895) (Java). 

 Manduca laclwsis ab. atra Huwc, /•■. (Java, ? ). 



c? ? . TLe amount of black is very variable both on abdomen auJ wiugs ; tlie 

 black colour generally more extended on the abdomen of the <J than on that of 

 the ?. The stigma of the forewing is small and white ; it is contiguous with a 

 black jiatch situated in the apex of the cell ; the line at the proximal side of the 

 same i)atch forms a kind of ring belore the inner margin, being joined behind 

 SM- to a .discal line. 



Palpi widely separate at end. Spines on the outer side of the first segment 

 of the foretarsus numerous. Metauotum and end of mesonotum marked with red 

 hairs; edge of skull-mark also generally with some red hairs. The white scaling 

 at the end of the antenna a little more extended than in atropos ; antenna longer 

 than in atrojios, in <S as stout as, but in ? obviously thinner than, in that species. 



J. Arniiiture of harpe (PI. XXXV. f. 2) rei)resented by two parallel hooks 

 sinus between them rounded (in dorsal view). 



?. Vaginal ai)ertnre jwovided proximally with a transverse ridge or flap, which 

 is rounded laterally and shallowly sinuate mesially. 



Larva: a yellow form with oblique red bands, and a green form with obliipie 

 yellow bands bordered with blue in front. — Food-jjlants : Antidcsma, Datura, 

 Nicotiana tahacum, etc. 



JIab. Prom China, N. and S. India, Ceylon, eastwards to the ISonthern IVIoluccas 

 (C'eram, Amboina). Not yet found in N.W. India and Japan. 



In the Triiig Museum Td-odd specimens from: Ceylon, S. India (Nilgiris) 

 Sikkim, As.sam, China (one of them labelled " Pekin "), Malay Pen., Sumatra, Nias, 

 Borneo, Palawan, Java, Lombok, Timor, Celebes, t!eram. 



8. Acherontia atropos. 



Aldrov., De Amni. Ins. p. 363. f. 3 (1602); id.. I.e. ed. Franc, p. 90 (1618); Moufet, Thcatr. 

 Im. p. 89. fig. (1634) ; Schroeck, Eplmn. Ac. Xat. Car. Dec. 2. Ann. 7. Obs. 2.'i4. p. 475 (1688) ; 

 Albin. Enijl. /»«. t. 6 (1720) ; R&um., Jlid. Jns. i. p. 293. t. 14. f. 2 ; id.. I.e. ii. p. 289. t. 24. 

 f. 4. 5 (17.36) ; Wilke, Emjl. .Mollis CI. LS.B. p. 9. t. 1 (1747) ; Roesel, Ins. Briust. in. p. 15. 

 frontiap (:.). t 1. f. 1-4 (I., p.). t. 2. f. 6. 6 (i.) (175.^0 ; Hemm., Call. Cur. Ins. t. 1. f. a. b. c. 

 (I., i) (17;- 'n : Linni', Iter Has:;clquist pp. 408. 417. n. 104 (1757) ; Jonst., Theatr. Aniin. 



