( ^71 ) 



?. Ridge in front of vaginal orifice (PI. XVIII. f. 22) witli a small mesial 

 sinus : the edge either irregularly denticulate or smooth. 



Larva mentioned by Graeser; said to be similar to that of Sphinx ocellata. 



A thorough study of the Amur larvae is a desideratum. The larvae of the Amur 

 S/j/fiii</i'f(ie have nearly all been found by the travellers who collected for commercial 

 jnirpost's, but not one is jtroperly described. 



Ha//. Amurlaud. 



In the Tring Mnseuui (?(?, 3 ? ?. 



h. M. ffascltkewitschi gaschkewitschi. 



Smerinlhns di/rax var, 0., Walker, I.e. viii. p. 2bl. sub n. 1.3 (1856) (Shanghai, J ). 



Snieriiilhus giisrhli'toilsrhi Bremer & Grey, l.l.r.r. ; Men., Kimiii. Corp. Anim. Miis. Piir., Leji. i. 



Sm'l- P- 3*- D- 1563. t. 13. f. 4 (1857) (Pekin) ; Walk., I.r. p. 40 (ISlU) ; Bart., in Rubl, 



Gi-o-ssWim. ii. p. Ifil (inOO) (Pekin) ; Stand. & Reb., Cat. Leji. ed. iii. p. 99. n. 722 (1901) 



(partim : China sept.). 

 .^merhithiix fja^fhkeritsrhi (!), Boisduval, Hpec. Grn. Li'p. llei. i. p. 19. n. 3 (1875). 

 TripUiiim, f/„.ir/ilcecit.irhi (!), Butler, Tram. Z,u,l. Sac. Loml. ix. p. 588. n. 21 (1877) (Pekin; 



"Mongolia" ex err. ?) ; Swinh., Cat. Lap. IlH. Miis. 0.r. i. p. 27. n. 105 (189-.') (Shantung). 

 Siiicrinlhiis giLtchh-noili-Iii (I), Austaut, Lr Xalnml. xiv. p. 68 (1892). 

 Mtirumba yaschkeu-itschi, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Hel. i. p. 707. n. 11 (1892). 

 SmerinthuK ciimplacem, Bartel, l.i: p. 163 (1900) (partim ; Shanghai). 



<? ? . Upjier- and underside of body and wings paler than in the other subspecies; 

 mesial line of abdomen not marked or vestigial ; anal angle of hindwing above 

 with a greyish white patch proximally of the brown spot. Underside darker in 

 I? than in ?, hindwing pinkish grey in ?, with the marginal area more or less 

 ])ale pinkish tawny, in S uniformly drab-colour, scarcely with a vestige of red. 

 Fringe of both wings conspicuously white between the veins. 



? . Vaginal plate as in carstanjeni, the edge rather thicker. 



Larva not known. 



Ilah. North China : Pekin. 



In the Paris Museum I cJ, 2 ? ¥ from north of Pekin (A. David), one of the 

 ? ? transferred to the Tring Museum. 



This and the following are possibly seasonal forms of the same Chinese 

 subspecies. 



c. M. (ja»chkewiUchi complacem. 



*Smerinlhiis cmnplacens Walker, Cat. Leji. Ins. B. M. xxxi. p. 40 (18G4) (Amoy, J ;— Mus. Brit.) ; 



Boisd., Hper. Gbi. Up. Hit. i. p. 30. n. 19 (18'.5) ; Bartel, in Riihl, G rossxch n, . ii. p. 163 (1900) 



(partim ; Amoy). 

 fiiptiiijoii c>mijilarf.n:i, Butler, Trans. Zitoh Soc. Limil. ix. p. 588. n. 19 (1877) (partim ; Amoy); 



id., IlhiMr. Tiiii. Spcr. Lep. Ilel. B. il. iii. p. 2. t. 41. f. 4 (1879) (partim). 

 .Mnriiiiilia riiniplttiriis, Kirby, Oi/. Lep. Hel. i. p. 707. n. 8 (1892) (partim). 

 Mamintiii iitiKclil-ricitxi-hi ab. nuiiji/ai-eiix, Rothschild, Niiv. ZooL. i. p. 98 (1894). 

 t'oli/pli/rltim ijaschkewili'chi. Leech, Traun. lint. Soi;. Luwl. p. 276. n. 36 (1898) (partim; Moupin, vi.). 



c? ? . Darker than the two preceding forms ; fringe of forewing' with the white 

 H[>f)tH vestigial ; underside of hindwing and of body washed with red all over. 

 f''orcwing rather more elongate than in the other subspecies. 



?. Vaginal ])lato as in the j)rec.eding form, the ridge thicker than in carstanjeni 

 aud the sinus much less dcop than in the following subspecies. 



Larva not known. 



Ilnl), .Southern and (Jciilni-l ('liinii: Anicty, Koochow, Kiangsi, Moupin. 



