( 407 ) 

 305. Cephonodes hylas. 



SphiiLC h;/!iix Liunr, MmiL Phiiil. p. 5:V,I (1771) (China) ; Mull., Xnliiis., Snppl. p. .%:!. n. 'M (1776) ; 



Goeze, Eid. Be.ijtr. iii. 2. p. 204. n. 5 (1780) ; Gmel., Si/st. Nat. i. 5. p. 2387. n. 'J5 (1790) ; 



Donov., Ins. China t. 43. f. 2 (179'j). 

 Sesia hi/l<is, Fabricius, S.i/sl. Eiit. ii. p. 647. n. 2 (1775) ; id., Spec. Ins. ii. p. 1.54. n. 4(1781) (partim); 



id., Mant. Ins. ii. p. 90. n. 4 (1787) (partim) ; id., Enl. Sysi. iii. 1. p. 379. n. 3 (1793) (partim); 



Walk., List LejK Ins. B. M. viii. p. 84. n. 9. (18.50) (partim). 

 Cephnnodps hylas, Hiibner, Vei:~. tiek. Sehm. p. 131. n. 1402 (1822) (partim). 

 Macroglossa hylas var., Koch, Indu-Aiistr. Lpp. Fauna p. 52 (1805). 

 JIacroglossa hylas, Boisduval, Spec. Geii. Lip. HH. i. p. 370 d. 72 (1875) (partim). 

 Hemaris hylas, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 522. n. 2 (1877) (partim). 



(? ? . Alxlomen with a black and deep red belt, sixth tergite with a black 

 mesial patrji, which bears often some red scales; underside of palpus, breast; mesial 

 patches of first abdominal sternites, side-patches of posterior sternite, white, Ijreast 

 often sliglitl}- yellowish ; tail black, green above (yellowish in faded specimens) ; 

 rest of underside of abdomen brown-red. Foretibia without apical thorn, but with 

 some short spines like most preceding species (PI. LXIV. f. 17). Individually 

 variable in colour and size. 



i. Ninth and tenth segments asymmetrical (Pi. XLIII. f. 15 — 18); tenth 

 tergite twisted, apex pointing towards the right side, the right half alone developed, 

 forming an obtusely pointed hook ; left part of tergite reduced to a piece of chitin 

 (Z), visible in a ventral or a left-side view; sternite without process, represented 

 by a low rounded ridge (A>). Right clasper (PL LI. f. 'Z'Z. 23) large, broadly sole- 

 sliaped, ventral edge rounded or angulate in middle ; left clasper reduced, broadly 

 sinuate apically, the upper lobe jiroduced, the ventral one broad and short, both 

 lobes clothed at and near tlje edge with short spines and longer bristles (PI. LI. 

 f '12 — 24). Penis-fnnnel ratlier small (p-f), witli long bristles. . 



Larva figured of the African and Indian subspecies. 



Ilab. Aethiojiiau Region ; India to Japan ; Flores to Australia. 



Three subspecies, which agree exactly in colour, but differ constantly in the 

 se.xual armature of the S S ■ 



a. C. hijlas virescens. 



MacToijlossa hylas, Boisduval {jion Liunu, 1771), ia Deleg., Voy. Afr. Austr. p. 594. p. 95 (1847) 



(Xatal); Mab., Ann. Hue. Ent. France p. 299 (1879) (Madag.) ; Dew., Mitth. Miinch. Enl. Ver. 



iii. p. 23 (1879) (Chinchoxo) ; Obertb., .-Ihti. Miis. Civ. Uenora .wiii. p. 735. n. 80 (1883) (Shoa, 



vi.); Moscbl., Abh. Zn„l. But. Gee. Wirn xxxiii. p. 288. u. 85(1884) (Cjffraria ; = iwns ex 



errore !). 

 Mitcriiijliissiini apns, Guc'rin {nan Boisduval, 1833), in Lefebvre, Vay. Abyss, vi. p. 380 (1845) 



(Abyssinia). 

 .Macroijlossa apns, Boisduval, in Delcg., Voy. Afr. Austr. p. 594. n. 96 (1847) (Natal). 

 I'oti/l'im rirescrns Wallengren, Kmnjl. Sv. Vet. Ah. Uandl. (2). v. 4. p. 17 (1805) (Caffraria). 

 *.Mairiiijlnssa cmijinis Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Up. llel. i. [). 370. n. 70 (1875) (Senegal ; Casamance ; 



Natal; Sic-rra Leone ; Asbauli ; — coll. Oburtbiir). 

 Ilniiaris hylas, Butler, I.e. (1877) (partim) ; .Saalm., Lcp. .Uadiuj. p. 117. n. 260. t. 3. f. 40 (1884) ; 



Drucc, in Jameson, Slnry War Vol. p. 440 (1K87) (Aruwimi, iii.); id., in Moloney, II'. Afr. 



Forestry \). iWi. n. 1 (18H7) ; Miiscbl., .1 Wi. ,SVh/.-. A,i/«,/. Ges. xv. p. 07. n. 147 (1890) (Gold 



Coant) ; Dist., Nat. Transranl p. 230 (1892) (Zoutpansberg, v.). 

 Cephiminks hylas, Butler, I'ruc. Zwl. Sue. Land. p. (i74. n. 155 (1893) (Zomba, i.) ; id.. I.e. p. 843. 



n. 121 (1890) (Xyiissald., ii. iii.; ; Hamps., l.i: (1892) (partim) ; Joann., Ann, Soc. Ent. France 



p. 430. n. 211 (1H91) (Mahi'', Seychelles) ; Fawc, Trans. Zuol. Soc, Land. xv. p. 312. n. 10. t. 48. 



f. 13-18 (/.). 19(//.)(I901). 

 .S'«««i hylas, Westwood, in Gates, Mtilablilil. jj. 355 (1881), 

 Cephonodes itirescens, Kirby, I.e. n. (i (|K'.I2). 

 Urphonvles eunfiuis, id. /.<;. p. 028. n. 8 (1892), 



