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Imago with the head and thorax short and broad; palpi small, antennz of male more 
or less pectinated. 
5. ACHERONTIINE. 
Larva thick, clumsy, Sphing-like, but with the horn always more or less recurved at 
the tip, and tuberculated or granulose, 
Imago clumsy ; legs, antennz, and proboscis thick, the latter very short ; head, thorax, 
and abdomen short and broad. 
6. SPHINGINE. 
Larva with the anterior segments very slightly smaller than the posterior, generally 
marked with oblique lateral stripes; horn (when present) rather long; head tolerably 
large; position of the larva in repose almost sigmoidal. 
Pupa frequently with an external sheath for the proboscis. 
Imago Cherocampine in form, but with the head generally smaller, the thorax vari- 
able in length; proboscis very long. 
Subfamily I. MACROGLOSSIN &. 
Genus 1. Lepiszsta, Grote. 
1, LEPISESIA FLAVOFASCIATA. 
Macroglossa flavofasciata, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 87. no. 3 (1856). 
Lepisesia flavofasciata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. y. p. 39 (1865). 
St. Martin’s Falls, Albany River, Hudson’s Bay (Barnston). Type, B.M, 
The above is certainly more nearly allied to Hemaris than to Macroglossa, and appears 
to be a well-marked genus. 
2, LEPISESIA VICTORIA. 
Lepisesia victoria, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 147 (1874). 
British Columbia (Crotch). 
Genus 2. Satasprs, Moore. 
Sataspes, Moore, Cat. Lep. Hast-Ind. Comp. i. p. 261 (1857). 
1. SATASPES INFERNALIS. 
Sesia infernalis, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 61, pl. 30. fig. 3 (1848). 
Macroglossa infernalis, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 95. no. 19 (1856). 
Sataspes infernalis, Moore, Cat. Lep. H.I. Comp. i. p, 261. no. 597 (1857). 
Silhet (Stainsforth), Nepal (Whitely), Coimbatoor (Walhouse). B.M. 
