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66. Ch^erocampa haitensis. 



Chterocampa haitensis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 9. uo. 18. 

 Haiti (Tweedie). Type, B.M. 



67. Ch^KOCAMPA CHIRON. 



Sphinx Chiron, Drury, lU. Nat. Hist. i. p. 56, pi. 36. fig. 3 (1770). 

 Choerocampa chiron (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 132. no. 7 (1856). 



Brazil (Saunders) ; Monte Video (Darwin). B.M. 



68. Ch^rocampa nechus. 



Sphinx nechus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol.ii. p. 125, pi. 178. fig. B (1779). 

 Theretra nechus, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 135. no. 1447 (1816). 

 Chterocampa chiron (part.). Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 132. no. 7 (1856). 

 Cheerocampa hortulanus (sic), Sctaufuss, Nunquam Otiosus, i. p. 18 (1870). 



Mexico (DouUeday). B.M. 



69. Cn^ROCAiiPA fugax. 



Chxrocampa fugax , Boisduval, Lep. Guat. p. 70 (1870). 

 Honduras and Mexico. 

 Apparently allied to C. ceratomioides. 



70. Ch^rocampa ceratomioides. 



S .Cheerocampa ceratomioides, Grote & Robinson, Lye. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. p. 358, pi. 14. fig. 3 (1867). 

 Pergesa anubus. Walker (nee Sphinx anubus, Cramer), Lep. Het. viii. p. 151. uo. 3. 



Brazil (Becker) ; Rio (Stevens) ; Venezuela (Dyson). B.M. 



71. Ch^rocampa nessus. 



Sphinx nessus, Druiy, 111. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 46, pi. 27. fig. 1 (1773). 

 Charocampa nessus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 140. no. 22 (1856). 

 Sphinx equestris, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 365. no. 29 (1793). 

 Var. Cheerocampa rubicundus, Schaufuss, Nunquam Otiosus, i. p. 18 (1870). 



SiVaet (Stcdnsforth); North India (James); Moulmein (Cto'c^) ; Canara (PfwrtZ); 

 Ceyloxi. (Templeton) ; Rong-Kong (Boiv ring) ; Java. (Horsjield). B.M. 



Dr. Schaufuss describes the Javan type. 



Mr. Lewis took the larva of C. nessus upon the wild yam (Dioscorea) ; it is of a 

 chalky-green colour, whitish above, with paler dorsal and a lateral longitudinal sub- 

 dorsal white streak, also six oblique white stripes between the spiracles, one or two 

 rounded whitish lateral spots on the anterior segments ; anal horn yellow, prolegs also 

 yellow. 



