MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGIDA. 609 
19. PROTOPARCE CONVOLVULI. 
Sphina convolvuli, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. ii. p. 789. no, 6 (1766) ; Roesel, -Ins. Belust. i. tab. vil. 
figs. 1-5 (1746). 
Agrius convolvuli, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 140. no. 1506 (1816). 
England [British Coll.]; Europe (Becker); South Africa (Smith); Port Natal (Guein- 
ZUUus). 
I cannot find any difference between African and European examples. 
20. PROTOPARCE DISTANS. 
Sphina convolvuli, var. distans, Butler, Lep. New Zealand, in Voy. ‘ Erebus’ and ‘Terror,’ i. p. 30. 
no. 10, pl. ix. fig. 11 (1874). 
Sphinx convolvuli (part.), Boisduval, Voy. de l’Astrolabe, p. 187 (1832-35) ; Walker, Tep. Het. viii. 
p: 212. no. 1 (1856). 
Sphinx roseafasciata, Scott (cit. Koch), Indo-Austral. Lep.-Faun. p. 54 (1873). 
New Zealand (Sinclair, Bolton) ; Sydney (Lambert); Australia. Type, B.M. 
This is altogether darker in both sexes, and has a more ashy hue than the European 
species; the early stages will probably be quite unlike. 
21. PROTOPARCE ORIENTALIS, n. sp. (Plate XCI. figs. 16, 17.) 
Sphinx convolvuli, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. i. p. 267. no, 616 (1857). 
North India (James, Hearsay); Scinde? (Warwick); North Bengal (Saunders) ; 
Moulmein (Clerck); Ceylon (Templeton); Hong-Kong (Bowring); Java (Horsfield) ; 
Hakodadi ( Whitely). B.M. 
This species is wonderfully like some African examples of P. convolvuli, being altogether 
paler than the European form ; it differs from the African variety in always having the 
centre of the middle band of secondaries quite pale, and paler rosy bands on the abdo- 
men; the larva differs considerably, being more slenderly formed, and without the 
double dorsal series of black spots. It feeds on the sweet potato. 
22. PRoToOPARCE PSEUDOCONVOLVULI. 
Sphinz: pseudoconvolvuli, Schaufuss, Nunquam Otiosus, i. p. 15 (1870). 
Natal. 
“Like a small pale Sphina convolvuli; the underside uniform grey, only the margin 
a little darker. Width 75 millimetres.” The above is the only description given of 
this insect. 
23. PRoTOPARCE ? TISIPHONE. 
Sphins: tisiphone, Linneus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 359. no. 19 (1764). 
“ Indies.” 
The description of this species is not sufficiently precise to enable me to determine it. 
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