MR, A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGIDA. 523 
China (Bowring, Harrington, Reeves); Japan (Whitely); Moulmein (Clerck); Ceylon 
(Wenham) ; North India (James) ; Nepal (Ramsay) ; Moreton Bay (Gibbons); Australia 
(Hunter); Congo (Curror) ; West Africa (Argent); South Africa (Angas); Natal ( Guein- 
zius, Trimen). B.M. 
One of our Natal examples agrees very fairly with the figure of M. apus; it is, how- 
ever, rather less like typical H.hylas. Mr. Lewis tells me that when H. hylas first leaves 
the pupa the primaries are covered with yellow scales; he found the larva feeding on 
Gardenia.. 
25. HEMARIS VIRESCENS. 
Potidea virescens, Wallengren, Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. y. no. 4, p. 17. no. 1 (1865). 
East Caffraria. 
Allied to H. hylas. 
26. HEMARIS CROATICA. 
Sphinx croatica, Esper, Eur. Schmett. p. 33, pl. 45. fig. 2 (1777). 
Cephonodes croatica, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 131. no. 1406 (1816). 
Macroglossa croatica, Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 32 (1840). 
Sphinz sesia, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. ii. figs. 89 & 136 (1793-1827). 
South-east Europe, Asia Minor, Armenia. 
Judging from Hiibner’s figures alone, I should be satisfied that this was not a Macro- 
glossa. ‘The form of the antenne in the figure seems to indicate a distinction from 
Hemaris; but I have recently examined two specimens in the collection of Myr. 
Herbert Sharpe, and I now feel convinced that Hiibner rightly referred it to his ? genus 
Cephonodes. 
Genus 4. Ruopatorsycue, Butler. 
Rhopalopsyche, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 239 (1875). 
1. RHOPALOPSYCHE BIFASCIATA. 
Rhopalopsyche bifasciata, Butler, P. Z. 8. p. 239, pl. xxxvi. fig. 4 (1875). 
South India (Ward). Type, coll. F. Moore. 
2. RHOPALOPSYCHE NYCTERIS. 
Macroglossa nycteris, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 458, pl. 19. fig. 5. 
Macroglossa volucris, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 94. no. 16 (1856). 
Silhet (Doubleday); North India (Argent, Stevens); Barrackpore (Hearsay). —_B.M. 
