598 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGIDA. 
Java (Horsfield); Hong Kong (Bowring); Shanghai, China, East India, Philippines 
(Bowring). BM. 
I have received examples of this species from Mr. Lewis. ‘The smaller form of it was 
bred by him in Japan; and as he has had the transformations carefully drawn by a 
native artist, I am now enabled to figure them, proving the entire distinctness of this 
species from A. atropos. He believes that the larger examples may be referable to a 
distinct species, the small Japanese examples being constant in size and in the absence 
of the ventral black spots upon the abdomen. The larva feeds on Sesamum orientale. 
3. ACHERONTIA ATROPOS. 
Sphinz atropos, Linneeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 348. no. 8 (1764). 
Acherontia atropos, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 189. no. 1494 (1816). 
England [ Brit. coll.]; Europe (Becker); Sierra Leone (Morgan); Mauritius (Beke) ; 
South Africa (Smith). BM. 
This species may be at once distinguished from the two preceding (in its perfect state) 
by the deeper orange tint of the secondaries and abdomen, and by the transverse blackish 
belts on the underside of the abdomen. ‘The larve differ considerably. 
4, ACHERONTIA MorTA. (Plate XCII. fig. 9.) 
Acherontia morta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 140. no. 1496 (1816). 
Sphinx atropos, var., Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 74, pl. 237. fig. A (1782). 
Sphinx atropos, Gray, Cuvier’s Animal Kingdom, pl. 137. fig. 4 (1882). 
Acherontia satanas, Boisduval, Hist. Nat. des Lép. pl. 16. fig. 1 (1836). 
Acherontia lethe, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 87, pl. 42. fig. 2 (1848). 
? Sphinx lachesis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 434, nos. 26, 27 (1798). 
Java (Horsfield); Hong Kong (Bowring); Ceylon (Templeton); Silhet (Sowerby) ; 
Assam (Warwick). BM. 
Mr. Walker adopted the most recent name for this species: Mr. Moore, however, 
recorded it as A. satanas, with a query as to Hiibner’s species being the same; but as 
Cramer’s figure is clearly a representation of a Javese example of this species, we 
cannot ayoid adopting Hiibner’s name for it. 
Subfamily VI. SPHINGINZ. 
Genus 1. TaroGLossuM, n. gen. 
Allied to Anceryx (restricted). Body more robust ; thorax much shorter; prothorax 
not extending so far in advance of the wings; mesothorax not crested. Head shorter ; 
palpi narrower, closely appressed to the front of head; proboscis long; anus of male 
