ME. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPHINGID^. 517 



Imago with the head and thorax short and broad ; palpi small, antennae of male more 

 or less pectinated. 



5. ACHERONTIIN^. 



Larva thick, clumsy, Sphiiix-like, but with the horn always more or less recurved at 

 the tip, and tuberculated or granulose. 



Imago clumsy ; legs, antenna;, and proboscis thick, the latter very short ; head, thorax, 

 and abdomen short and broad. 



6. Sphingin^. 



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 Chmrocampine in form, but with the head generally smaller, the thorax vari- 

 able in length ; proboscis very long. 



Subfamily I. MACROGLOSSIN^. 



Genus 1. Lepisesia, Grote. 



1. Lepisesia flavofasciata. 



Mao'oglossa flavofasciata, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 87. no. 3 (1856). 

 Lepisesia flavofasciata, Grote, Proc. Eat. Soc. Phil. vol. v. 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. Buflf. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 147 (1874). 

 British Columbia [Crotch). 



Genus 2. Sataspes, Moore. 

 Sataspes, Moore, Cat. Lep. East-Ind. Comp. i. p. 261 (1857). 



1. Sataspes infeenalis. 



Sesia infernalis, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 61, pi. 30. fig. 3 (1848). 

 Macroglossa infernalis. Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 95. no. 19 (1856). 

 Sataspes infernalis, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. i. p. 261. no. 597 (1857). 



Silhet {Stainsforth), Nepal [Wliitely), Coimbatoor (Walhouse). B.M. 



