( 590 ) 



(? ? . Forewing' ]iak'r tbiui in the ludiaii form; distal border of biudwing 

 uarrowi-r, more strongly tapering behiud. 



Ilah. C'hiua : Japan ; C'orea ; apparent]}' all the summer. 



In the Tring Museum 22 (?cJ, 18 ?? from: Nagasaki, vi. ; .Satsuma, v.; 

 Yokohama, vi. vii. viii. ; Tai])eh. Formosa; China. 



CXXXVI. SPHINGONAEPIOPSIS.— Typns: namnn. 



S/,/iin.i\ Espei- (HUH Linne, 17y8), Srliinclt., Siij,/il. ii. p. 4i) (1806). 



Pnisrrjiinnx Hiibner, I'd"., be/,-. ScJiiii. p. i:'>'2 (1822) (partim ; type : pinsiipina = iiciu>lhenic). 



PlenH/iiH Boisduval, //«/. .Uclh. p. 32 (182:i) («om. ;«(/<■, s,t.) ; id., law. Lip. ii. p. 14 (183-1) (parlitu. 



incl. type of Pntxer/iimix). 

 I.nji/iuni Walker («(«( Flemming, 1822), List Lrp. his. B. .\[. -viii. p. 105 (1856) (partim). 

 ■SjiliiiKjiiiKii'/iid/isis Wallengren, Oefr. Vet. Ak. Fiirh. xv. p. 138 (1858) (type : nuHiim = f/nu-H/pes). 

 Guirica Kirby, Gil. Lrp. llet. i. p. 643 (1892) (partim). 



cj ? . A near relative of Giirelca, not of Froserjjinus. Paljius rough-scaled, first 

 segment with lateral apical fan as in Garelca. Antenna (PI. IjX. f. 2:i. 24. 25. 29) 

 dentate or [lei-tinate in t?, simple and clubbed in ? ; end-segment very short. Eye 

 lashed. Head with scaling raised to a large tuft. Spines of abdomen very weak. 

 Merum of midcoxa not angulate behind ; tibiae with some long tsjjines ; sj)urs of 

 midtibia of nearly the same length ; midtarsus with basal comb, hindtarsus with 

 few basal sjdues ; paronychium with the lateral lobes very small, the ventral ones 

 absent ; tarsi long. Distal margin of forewing irregular, M- at apical third of cell, 

 M' and IV close together : costal margin of hindwing nearly straight, convex near 

 base, M' and M- close together, some distance from angle of cell, D" and D* straight, 

 lower angle of cell not acuminate. 



cJ. Tenth tergite elongate triangular, aj)ex more or less rounded-tniucate ; 

 sternite either similar to that of Hijijuedalia hiitlrri (PI. XLIV. f. 3(i), strongly 

 chitinised, with the uii]>erside transversely ribbed distally, or short, broad, mem- 

 branaceous. Clasper without friction-scales; harpe different in the various species. 

 Pciiis-sheatli without or with apical ]irocess. 



?. Vaginal plate triangular, apical edge jiiojecting. 



liarva cylindrical, with numerous short hairs : head deeply imjiressed mcsially ; 

 horn short ; on each side two dorsal and a veutro-lateral line from head to last 

 segment resp. horn. — Food-plant : Ruhiaccae, especially Galium. 



Ihih. South Russia to the Malay Peninsula and Madagascar. 



Five species. 



In the practical absence of both ])airs of paronychia! lobes Sphinijonuc piopsin 

 — a good mouthful, for such small insects too— is further advanced than tlureka, 

 in which the lateral lolies are jireserved. The position of M' of hindwing close 

 to M- is jieculiar. 



Boisduval's Vtciuyun of 1834, when he delined the genus, comprised several 

 genera of Hubner's. His first section is identical with I'roserijinus, containing the 

 same .species ; tlie second section is Hiibner's Kni/o ; while the third was probably 

 meant to coiuj)rise some African Scphclicae and L'hocrocuiiij/iiuu:. 



Key to the species : 



a. Hindwing brown . b. 



Hin<Iwing yellow or orange. ....<!. 



