598 ME. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID^. 



Java {Horsfield) ; Hong Kong {Bon'rinr/) ; Shanghai, China, East India, Philippines 

 (Bowring). B.M. 



I have received examples of this species from Mr. Lewis. The smaller form of it was 

 bred by him in .Japan ; and as he has had the transformations carefully drawn by a 

 native artist, I am now enabled to figure them, proving the entire distinctness of this 

 species from A. atropos. He believes that the larger examples may be referable to a 

 distinct species, the small Japanese examples being constant in size and in the absence 

 of the ventral black spots upon the abdomen. The larva feeds on Sesamum orientale. 



3. ACHERONTIA ATEOPOS. 



Sphinx atropos, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 348. no. 8 (1764). 

 Acherontia atropos, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 139. no. 1494 (1816) . 



England [Brit, coll.] ; Europe {Becker) ; Sierra Leone (Morgan) \ Mauritius {Beke) ; 

 South Africa (Smith). B.M. 



This species may be at once distinguished from the two preceding (in its perfect state) 

 by the deeper orange tint of the secondaries and abdomen, and by the transverse blackish 

 belts on the underside of the abdomen. The larvae differ considerably. 



4. Acherontia morta. (Plate XCII. fig. 9.) 



Acherontia morta, Hiibner, Vcrz. bek. Schmett. p. 140. no. 1496 (1816). 

 Sphinx atrojms, var., Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 74, pi. 237. fig. A (1782). 

 Sphinx atropos. Gray, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, pi. 137. fig. 4 (1832). 

 Acherontia satanas, Boisduval, Hist. TSIat. des Lep. pi. 16. fig. 1 (1836). 

 Acherontia lethe, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Eut. p. 87, pi. 42. fig. 2 (1848). 

 y Sphinx lachesis, Pabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 434. nos. 26, 27 (1798). 



Java (Horsfield) ; Hong Kong (Bowring) ; Ceylon (Templefon) ; Silhet (Sowerhy) ; 

 Assam (Warivick). B.M. 



Mr. Walker adopted the most recent name for this species : Mr. Moore, however, 

 recorded it as yi. satanas, with a query as to Hiibner's species being the same; but as 

 Cramer's figure is clearly a representation of a Javese example of this species, we 

 cannot avoid adopting Hiibner's name for it. 



Subfamily VI. SPHINGIN^. 



Genus 1. T.^toglossum, n. gen. 



Allied to Avceryx (restricted). Body more robust ; thorax much shorter ; prothorax 

 not extending so far in advance of the wings ; mesothorax not crested. Head shorter ; 

 palpi narrower, closely appressed to the front of head ; proboscis long ; anus of male 



