LEPIDOPTERA, SPHINGIDAE. 



horn purplish -brown with black short bristles. 

 Pupa. — blackish- brown. 



Time of appearance. — Imago: May — July. Larva: June— September. 

 Food-plants. — Pinus densiflora, Pinus Thunbergii, etc. 

 Distribution. — Honsiu, Shikoku, Kiusiu. 



Dolbina tancrei Staud. 



Japanese name: Sazanan? i-suzume. (Plate V, fig. 1, A-c.) 



Imago.— Fore- wings yellowish- grey, partly olivaceous, with terminal purplish -grey; indistinct waved 

 stripes on basal area; a series of dark spots on costal part; three dark waved stripes on median area, middle 

 ones indistinct; a white discal spot; cilia black and grey. Hind-wings dark-brown posteriorly darker. Wings 

 below dark-brown posteriorly paler; a dark curved stripe. Expanse, 55-67mm. Body yellowish-grey, tinged 

 with olive; thorax with four dark stripes; abdomen with a dark dorsal line and lateral series of dark spots. 

 Length, 23-30mm. 



Larva.— Green, white-dotted, lower side tinged with bluish-purple; on 3 or 4-11 segments a series of 

 white oblique lateral stripes; purplish-brown blotches on lateral side of 5-11 segments; spiracles white with 

 lateral black; horn pale green, tinged with rosy, black dotted. 



Pupa. — Purplish- brown. 



Time of apperance. — Imago: May-Angust. Larva: May-September. 



Food-plants. — Fraxinus Bungeana, Ligustrum Ibota, L. Japonicum. 



Oxyambulyx ochracea Butler. 



Japanese name: Hosoba-suzume. (Plate III, fig. 7.) 



Imago. — Fore- wings dull-brown or yellowish-brown; half and subbasal lines dark; a dark dentate 

 fascia and four or more dark dentate bands from dorsum to apex, sometimes indistinct; a dark discal dot, 

 sometimes indistinct; near base darkish-olive round blotch; near inner angle two darkish- olive blotches, 

 sometimes connected. Hind-wings brownish -orange, with poteriorly dark -brown; two or more stripes dark- 

 brown. Wings below brownish-orange, streaked and sprinkled with reddish- brown. Expanse, 9 5-1 02mm. 

 Body yellowish -grey; a dark blotch on head; dark blotches and white lunate blotches on thorax; on 6 and 8 

 segments of abdomen round black blotches. Length, 36-38mm. 



Time of appearance. — Imago: July, August. 



Distribution. —Honsiu. 



Clanis bilineata Walker. 



Japanese name: Tobiiro-suzume. (Plate, IV, fig. 3.) 

 Imago. — Fore -wings brown, shaded with lilac; marginal area olivaceous; a triangular lilac-brown blotch 



