572 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGIDiE. 



Genus 10. Daphnis, Hiibner. 

 Daphnis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134 (1816). 



1 . Daphnis nerii. 



Sphinx nerii, Linnjeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 798. no. 5 (1766) ; Roesel, Ins. Belust. iii. p. 85, pi. 15. 



figs. 1-3, pi. 16. figs. J-6 (1755). 

 Daphnis nerii, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134. no. 1441 (1816). 

 Charocampa nerii, Curtis, Brit. Ent. xiii. pi. 626. 

 Drilej)hila nerii, Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. p. 74. no. 6 (1833). 



Italy (Leach) ; Athens (Merlin) ; East India, Canara ( Ward) ; Mauritius (Beke) ; 

 Natal (Gueinzius). B.M. 



The examples mentioned by Mr. Walker as coming from Ceylon are sexes of D. 

 hypothoiis of Cramer. 



2. Daphnis hypothous. 



Sphinx hypothous, Cramer, Pap. Esot. iii. p. 165, pi. 285. fig. F (1782). 

 Daphnis hypothoUs, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134. no. 1440 (1816). 



Darapsa hypothoUs (part.), Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. p. 271. no. 627, pi. x. figs. 2, 2a, transforma- 

 tions (1857). 



cJ S, Ceylon (Templeton) ; Java (Horsfield); Labuan and Sarawak (Low). B.M. 



The larva of I), hypothous is figured in Horsfield and Moore's Catalogue, pi. x. fig. 2, 



3. Daphnis pallescens. 



Daphnis pallescens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 6. 



Queensland (Janson). Type, B.M. 



4. Daphnis protrudens. 



Daphnis protrudens, Felder, Raise der Nov., Lep. iv. tab. Ixxvi. fig. 7 (Nov. 1874). 



Allied to the preceding. 



5. Daphnis angustans. 

 Daphnis angustans, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. tab. Ixxvi. fig. 6 (Nov. 1874). 



Allied to the succeeding species, but altogether darker and differently coloured. 



6. Daphnis horsfieldii, n. sp. 



Darapsa hypothoUs, Walker (ncc Cramer), Lep. Het. viii. p. 185. no. 6 (1856). 

 Darapsa hypothous 6 , Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. p. 271. no. 627 (1857). 



Smaller than D. hypothoUs; primaries with the outer margin much more waved, 



