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Philippines; Borneo; Celebes; Lombok ; Ternate ; Java; Sumatra; New Guinea; 

 Kew Hebrides; New Caledonia; Solomon Is.; Marshall Is.; Fiji; Society Is.; 

 throughout Australia. 



51. Acherontia lachesis, Fb. 



Sphinx lachesis, Fab., Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 434. 



Aclieronlia morta, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, ii. t. 77. AT. 1, 1 a-c (larva, pupa). 



Acherontia lachesis, Roths. & Jord., Revis. Sphing. p. 17 (1903). 



Chagos. — Two specimens. One found in He du Coin (Peros Banlios) on 22 June by 

 Mr. Stanley Gardiner, who also found the larvae on " Bois malgache." The second 

 example was bred from a larva found at Point Marianne, Diego Garcia, on 12 July ; this 

 jiupated on 19 July and emerged on 10 August. 



Distribution. — Throughout India and Ceylon ; Siam ; China; Penaug ; Singapore; 

 Java ; Sumatra ; Nias ; Borneo ; Palawan : Lombok ; Timor ; Celebes ; Ceram. 



It is noteworthy that tliis conspicuous species has not been recorded from the Maldives 

 or the Christmas or Cocos-Keeling Islands. 



52. Acherontia atropos, Linn. 



Sphinx atropos, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x) p. 490. 



Brachyglossa atropos, Boisd., Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 77. 



Acherontia atropos, Gueuee, Maill. Reun., Lep. p. 23 ; Saalm., Lep. Madag. p. 129; Joannis, Ann. 



S. E. France, 1894, p. 433; Holland, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. IS'Jo, p. 270 ; Roths. & Jord., 



Revis. Sphing. p. 18. 



Seychelles. — Five specimens : two from Mahe [de Gaye) without exact data ; three 

 bred during November 1905, from pupae given me by Mr. de Gaye. 



I was unable to hear of any superstitions about this moth except the belief that the 

 scales cause disease if introduced into the eye. This idea seems widely spread amongst 

 the Creoles and was probably introduced by the French colonists. 



Distribution. — Europe ; Asia Minor to N. Persia ; througliout Africa ; Madeira ; 

 Canary Is. ; Teneriife ; Azores ; St. Helena ; Reunion ; Mauritius ; Ilodriguez ; Mada- 

 gascar ; Seychelles (Mahe, La Digue) ; Sokotra. 



53. Cephonodes hylas, Linn., subsp. virescens, Wlgn. 



Sphinx hylas, Linn., Mant. Plant, p. 539 (1771). 



Potidma virescens, Wallgn., Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. (2) v. 4, p. 17 (1865). 



Hemaris hylas, Saalm., Lep. Madag. p. 117, t. 3. f. 40 (1881). 



Cephonodes hylas, Joannis, Ann. S. E. France, 1894, p. 430; Pawo., T. Z. S. xv. p. 312, t. 4«. 



ff. 13-18 (larva), 19 (pupa). 

 Cephonodes hylas virescens. Roths. & Jord., Revis. Sphing. p. 467. 



Coetivy. — Common in September 1905, espscially around flowers of " Bois balais " 

 (Uri/throxi/lon sp.). 



Poivre. — Not very common on 10 October, 1905. Larva found on Gueltarda 

 speciosa, Linn. 



