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



11. CHiEROCAMPA GRACILIS. 



Charocampa gracilis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 8, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



Congo (Bichardson) ; Sierra Leone {Morgan). Type, B.M. 



12. Chjsrocampa elegans. 



Charocampa elegans, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 8, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



6 , Java {Horsfield) ; S , Silhet {Stainsforth). Type, B.M. 



In Mr. Moore's collection from North-east Bengal. 



13. Ch^rocajipa theylia. 



Sphinx theylia, Linnseus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 360 (1764). 



Isoples theylia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 1455 (1816). 



Charocampa thyelia (sic), Moore, Cat. Lap. E.I. Comp. i. p. 276. no. 638 (1857). 



Sphinx boerhavice, Pabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 542. no. 22 (1775); Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. p. 40. no. 3, 



pi. XX. fig. 3 (1776). 

 Sphinx pinastrina, Martyu, Psyche, pi. 30. fig. 85 (1797). 

 Sphinx octopunctata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2386; Zschach, p. 95. no. 286. 

 Charocampa eson (pajt.). Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 137. no. 17 (1856). 



North India {Argent, Hearsay) ; Ceylon {Templeton) ■ Hong-Kong {Bowring) ; Sara- 

 wak {Wallace). B.M. 



14. Charocampa rafflesix, Horsfield, MS. 



Sphinx theylia S, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. 1, p. 58, pi. 226. fig. F (1782). 



J , Java. {Horsjield) ; 6 2 , Canava. {Ward). Type, B.M. 



The above is easily distinguished from C. theylia, Linnaeus (see Cramer, Pap. Exot. 

 iii. pi. 226. fig. E), by its deeper coloration, the two continuous parallel dark bands of 

 the primaries, and the uniformly dark dull red of the secondaries ; it may, perhaps, be 

 only a dark variety. Mr. Moore has it from Madras. 



15. Cilerocampa trilineata. 



ChcBTOcampa trilineata. Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 30 (1864). 



Venezuela {Dyson). Type, B.M. 



Very similar to the preceding, but much larger, witli more elongated primaries. 



16. Charocampa neoptolemus. 



Sphinx neoptolemus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 23, pi. 301. fig. F (1782). 

 Isoples neoptolemus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 135. no. 1454 (1816). 

 Charocampa neoptolemus, "Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 134. no. 12 (1856). 



Surinam. 



Only differs from the preceding in the narrower red band of the secondaries. 



