SPHINGID^l. 21 



Charocampa clotho. Butler : T. Z. S., Lond., ix. p. 561 (1876). 

 Swinhoe: P. Z. S., Lond., 1885, p. 289. 



- Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, i. 18. 98 



(1887). 

 Swinh. : Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1889, p. 164. 



Hampson: 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B.M., viii. 2. 22 



(1891). 



Hathia clotho. Moore: Lep. Ceyl., ii. p. 20, pi. 87, fig. I (1882). 

 Sphinx batus (van). Fabr. : Ent. Syst., iii. p. 377 (1793). 

 Deilephila cyrene. Westwood : Cab. Or. Ent., p. 13, pi. 6, fig. I (1848). 



Type. Cyrene Java, in coll. Westwood. 

 a. Ceylon. b. ? (Ashmol. Mus.). 



80. Chserocampa comminuens. 



Charocampa comminuens. Walker : xxxi. 31 (1864). 



Butler : T. Z. S., Lond., ix. p. 561 (1876). 



Type. Moreton Bay, in B. M. 



a. New Holland (Hope). b. Queensland. c. Moreton Bay. 



d. Aru (Wallace). e. Bourou (Wallace). 



81. Charocampa walduckii. 



Charocampa walduckii. Butler: Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1877, p. 398. 

 Type. Australia, in B. M. 

 a. Batchian (Wallace). b. Ternate (Wallace). 



82. Chfflrocampa amara, n. sp. : PI. I. f. 9. 



Above, dark brown, a yellowish grey band on each side of the palpi, 

 head and thorax ; sides of the abdomen yellowish grey, and with 

 a dark shade on each side above ; fore-wings with a dark brown 

 spot at end of cell, two dark brown very oblique straight bands, ist 

 from near hinder margin before the middle, 2nd at hinder margin 

 one third from the angle, both terminating at apex, two faint bands 

 parallel to the ist and close to its outer side, two similar bands close 

 outside the 2nd dark band before reaching the apex, between the 

 bands the wing is slightly paler. 



Hind-wings of a uniform blackish brown, much darker than the 

 fore-wings, costal space pale, cilia of fore-wings dark brown, of the 

 hind-wings yellowish grey. 



Underside, ochreous fawn colour, pectus and abdomen pale, tibiae 

 and tarsi grey above, wings irrorated with brown atoms, and with 

 a transverse discal line of brown dots on the veins; fore-wings 

 saturated with brown except at the apex and disc. 



Expanse of wings S 3^, ? 3 T % inches. 

 a. Mysol (<J type) (Wallace). b. Amboyna (9 type) (Wallace). 



Allied to C. comminuens (Walker), and C. walduckii (Butler), larger 

 than either, but can easily be distinguished by its dark oblique bands 

 and by the absence of the discal row of brown spots on the veins. 



