<.h 



( 4«:i ) 



Last abdominal steruites black in middle, 



red belt complete above .... ;i'j.). i'.hijlas. 



e. Abdomen witb broad black and red belt, 



beneath black, with jellow patches . . 390. C. woodj'ordi. 



Abdomen witli blood-red belt, yellow beneath 39:^.. C. apiis. 



Abdomen without belt ...... J'. 



f. Border of fore wing less than 2 mm, broad 



before SC° 



Border of forewing about :.' mm. broad 

 before 8C^ 3!»2. C. xanthms. 



g. Abdomen above uuicolorous . . . .391. C.janus. 

 Abdomen above washed with ferruginons 



behind 394. C. trochiltis. 



h. Border of forewing nearly 4 mm. wide at SC° 400. C. lifuemis. 



Border of forewing abont 1 mm. wide at SC''. . i. 

 i. Underside of abdomen black with white 



spots 398. r. picm. 



Underside of abdomen ochraceons . . . 399. C. armatus. 



389. Cephonodes kingi. 



Mnrruglommm 1,-iiigi McLeay, in King's Siiru. Aimlr. ii. p. 465. n. 1(37 (1827). 



.MacroijIoHsd, ruiniiiirjhanir, Boisduval {/ion Walker, 1856 ; iion Schaufuss, 1870), Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. 



i. p. .375. n. fi'J (1875). 

 Ihmaris hyla«, Butler (mn Llnne, 1771), Trans. Zool. Soc. Land. ix. p. 522. n. 24 (1877) (partim). 

 Ilenuirin J:ingi,Kiihy, Trans. Znol. Soc. Loml. ix. p. 233 (1877) (Australia \ = ciiiiii'mrjhomi of Boisd.); 



Misk., Pror. Roij. Soc. Queenshl. viii. p. 4. n. 1 (1891) (Brisbane ; Kockhampton ; synon. 



partim) ; id., I.e. p. GO (1891) (= hiu-l<hindi). 

 *Cepho,ioiles hucklnndi Butler, Ann. Mug. N. H. (6). xiT. p. 404 (1884) (Pt. Darwin ;— Mas. Brit.) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Lep. llet. i. p. G27. n. 1 (1892). 

 Ihmark burklandi, Swinhoe, Cut. Lep. Het. Muk 0.c. i. p. 2. n. 5 (1892). 

 C'ephonodcK khtgi, Kirby, I.e. n. 2 (1892). 



c? ?. Sides of pro.ximal segments, the si.\th and seventh segments, and base of 

 tail yellow, fifth and a mesial patch and si.xth as well as (mostly) ape.\ of fonrth 

 black, without red scales ; underside yellow, palpi whitish, sternite of fourth segment 

 and middle of third black, greater part of tail lilack ; bases of wings below yellow ; 

 distal marginal band of forewing 4 to 5 mm. Iiroad at >SC', dentate between veins, 

 or even (with intergradations), in ? ? mostly less dentate than in c?cf, but there are 

 Kjiecimens of both sexes witji dentate and with non-dentate edge. 



(J. Ninth and tenth segments practically symmetrical, the asymmetry found in 

 otiier species jnst indicated ; tenth tergite (PI. XLIII. f 0. 7) as in wooilfordi, 

 ulightly tapering to end, divided by a mesial groove, apically incised, the left lobe 

 (/ in figure) a little longer than the right ; sternite elongate-lanceolate, apex 

 acnminate, right side more convex at base than left. Left clasper long, not always 

 as narrow as in figure, with almost parallel sides, slightly narrowed towards end, 

 ajiex ronnd(Hl ; right clasj>er larger, but also narrow, widest bej'ond middle, ventral 

 e<lge shallowly emarginate distully, apex obtusely acuminate, somewhat curved 

 ventrad (PI. \A. f. 25). Penis-funnel compressed, large, bnt short, triangular ; 

 IM'nis-sheath ratiicr stout f(jr (liis genus, witiiout hooks. 



Larva beneath with a line at each side, often also with interrupted mesial line ; 

 ground-colour green or black, extent (if black very variable. Crreen form : a thin 



