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China {Boivring, Harrington, Beeves); Japan {Wliitely) ; Moulmein (C'lerck); Ceylon 

 (We7iham) ; North India (James) ; Nepal (JJamsay) ; Moveton Bay (Gibbons) ; Australia 

 (Hunter); Congo (Curror) ; West Africa (^r^ew^) ; South Africa (^M^as) ; Na.tal(6uein- 

 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 

 Gar denia- 

 ls. Hemaris vieescens. 

 Potideea virescens, WaUengren^ Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. v. no. 4, p. 17. no. 1 (1865). 



East CaflEraria. 

 Allied to //. hylas. 



26. Hemakis ceoatica. 



Sphinx croatica, Esper, Eur. Schmett. p. 33, pi. 45. fig. 2 (1777). 

 Cephonodes croatica, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 131. no. 1406 (1816). 

 MacToglossa croatica, Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 32 (1840). 

 Sphinx 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 antennae in the figure seems to indicate a distinction from 

 Hemaris; but I have recently examined two specinsens in the collection of Mr. 

 Herbert Sharpe, and I now feel convinced that Hiibner rightly referred it to his ? genus 

 Ceplionodes. 



Genus 4. Khopalopstche, Butler. 

 Rhopalopsyche, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 239 (1875). 



1. Rhopalopsyche bifasciata. 



Rhopalopsyche bifasciata, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 239, pi. xxxvi. fig. 4 (1875). 



South India (Ward). Type, coll. F. Moore. 



2. Rhopalopsyche nycteris. 



Macroglossa nycteris, KoUar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 458, pi. 19. fig. 5. 

 Macroglossa volucris. Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 94. no. 16 (1856). 



Silhet (Boubleday); North India (Argent, Stevens); Barrackpore (Hearsay). B.M. 



