NAWA: ICONES JAPONICOEUM INSECTOEUM 



LEPIDOPTERA, SPHINGID2E, 



Herse convolvuli Linn" 



Japanese name: Ebigara-suzume. (Plate I, fig. 5, A— c) 



Imago. — Fore -wings grey or dark grey, mixed with brown, whitish sprinkled, with darker dentate 



stripes; two longituginal black streaks in middle; a whitish discal spot; an irregular black apical line; two 



reniform spots, encircled with black, near middle of margin. Hind -wings grey, whitish sprincled; basal and 



subbasal belts blackish; two cloudy postmedian and submarginal bands blackish; cilia dark-grey and grey. 



wings below grey, whitish sprinkled; two or more darker fasciae. Expanse, 93 — 170mm. Head and thorax 



dark-grey, bordered with grey; abdomen dark- grey, banded with white, red and black in each segments. 



Length, 40 — 46mm. 



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 Larva, first from. — Green; dorsal line deeper, sometimes indistinct; on 4 — 11 segments a series of 



yellowish -white oblique lateral stripes, markad with dark-violet above; spiracles black encircled with 



yellowish-brown. Horn yellowish-brown, tip black. 



Second form. — Dark brown, blackish dotted, except of 1 and 11 segments; dorsal line blackish-brown; 

 on 4-11 segments a series of oblique lateral blackish- brown stripes; spiracles black; subspiracular line pale 

 rosy. 



Pupa. — Deep brown, furnished with a long projecting convoluted tongue sheath. 



Time of appearance. — Imago: July — September. Larva: August — November. 



Food- plants. — Ipomaea Batatas, Calystegia sepium, Pharbitis hederacea, Tetragonia cxpansa, Dolichos 

 Lablab, Phaseolus mungo. 



Distribution. — Yezo, Honsiu, Shikoku, Kiusiu, Formosa. 



Acherontia styx Moore, var. crathis Rothschild. 



Japanese name: Mengata-Suzume. (Plate I, fig. 4, A— c.) 



Imago.— Fore -wings black or blackish-brown, whitish and ochreous sprinkled, with waved black 

 stripes; first stripe sometimes accompany with whitish or ochreous line; margins of median band suffused 

 with whitish and ochreous on costal half; a deep yellow discal spot; ochreous short dashes between each 

 veins of margin. Hind-wings deep yellow; veins posteriorly more or less black; median and subterminal 

 band dark or black. Wings below ochreous -yellow; three dark bands, outer ones widest but paler. 

 Expanse, 93-106mm. Head black; thorax bluish-black, with frack border; a skull-shaped blotch, with 

 ochre and black; abdomen deep yellow, with black transverse bands on each segments; a longitudinal dark- 

 blue stripe. Length, 42-50mm. 



Larva, first form-— Green or yellowish green; on 4-11 segments a series of oblique lateral stripes; 



