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(Gordon), Portpatrick (Service). Wilts: Bremhill (Eddrup), Salisbury (Neale 

 Marlborough (Preston), Little Darnford (Ratcliffe), Pewsey (Sladen). Worcester 

 Wick (Horton), Tibberton (Weaver), Worcester, Malvern (Edwards), Malvern Wells 

 district (Mason), Great Malvern (Law), Holt, Ombersley (Rea), Bockleton (Decie). 

 Yores : about equally distributed, but apparently a rather commoner species than 

 Sphinx ligustri (Porritt) — Barnsley (Harrison), Thorp Perrow, Bedale (Culverwell), 

 Heaton, near Bradford (Carter), Brantingham, near Brough in i860 (Kingston), Brid- 

 lington (Lawson), Doncaster (Heppenstall), Driffield (Morris), Halifax (Ogden), 

 Harrogate (Denny), Hessle-upon-Humber (Burton), Huddersfield, several (Porritt), 

 Hull district, occasionally (Boult), Leeds (Birchall), Leyburn (Sang), Masham, 

 Manningham (Carter), Pontelract (Hartley), Redcar (Rudd), Richmond (Harris), 

 Wortley, Leeds, Rothwell, Burley (Smethurst), Scarborough (Wilkinson), Selby, 

 sometimes abundant (Hebson), Sheffield (Doncaster), Spurn, sometimes very plentiful 

 (Lawton), Wakefield (Talbot), Yarm (Harrison), York (Prest), Middlesborough, 

 Saltburn (Lofthouse), Longroyde Bridge (Varley), Beverley (Dobree), Thome 

 (Roberts), Sutton-on-Derwent (Read), Newsome, near Huddersfield (North), 

 Kirkstall (Oates), Holderness coast (Hewetson), Beverley, Lincroft (Hewett), Ripon 

 (Chapman), river Foss, near York (Dutton), Monkton, near Rostoney (Whitaker). 



DISTRIBUTION. — Throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and Poly- 

 nesia, but only as a straggler in northern latitudes. [Replaced in America, the 

 Galapagos and Sandwich Islands by the nearly allied Agrius cingulata.~\ Africa : 

 Canary Isles (Brit. Mus. Coll.), Madeira (Mathew), Azores (Godman), Algeria 

 (Lucas), Collo (Seriziat), North Morocco (teste Bart el), Egypt (Armstrong), 

 Abyssinia (Oberthur), West Africa — Grand Bassam (Harker), Guinea coast 

 {teste Bartel), Cameroons (Aurivillius), Southern Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson), 

 Mashonaland — Salisbury, Umtali, 3700ft. (Marshall), Zululand, 1500ft. (Mercer), 

 Transvaal (Ross), Cape Colony (Trimen), Natal — Durban (Leigh), Johannesburg 

 (teste Bartel), Eastern Caffraria (Wallengren), Caffraria (Moschler), Moira 

 (Speyer), Nubia (teste Bartel), Bourbon, Mauritius, Madagascar (Boisduval). Asia : 

 Asia Minor — Brussa (Mann), Amasia (Staudinger), Pamir — Osche, Kaschgar 

 (Alpheraky), Aden (Brit. Mus. Coll.), Amurland, very rare — Sutschan ^Staudinger), 

 Persia — Turbeth-i-Scheich, Dscham, Astrabad (Bienert), Askhabad (Christoph), 

 Mugan Steppe, Upta (teste Bartel), Pamirs (Grumm-Grschimailo), Japan, Fushiki, 

 exceedingly abundant (Lewis), Kamakura, near Yokohama, Chifu, Wei-hai-Wei, 

 Gulf of Pechili, abundant (Fletcher), Hakodate (Leech), Askold (Oberthur), 

 Eastern Thibet — Lob-Nor (Alpheraky), China (Fletcher), Pekin (Speyer), 

 Loun-an-Fou (Alpheraky), Ichang (Leech), Shanghai, Hongkong (Walker), 

 Formosa (Butler), India — North India (Butler), Bengal (Moore), Nilgiris, 

 Calcutta, Manipur, Campbellpore, Masuri, Ceylon (Brit. Mus. Coll.), Karachi, 

 Mhow, Poona, Bombay (Swinhoe), Port Blair (Moore), Sikkim, Bhutan (Dudg.), 

 Haining (Walker), Saugor (Chaumette), Punjab, common (Young), Cutch 

 (Nurse), Further India — Burmah (Butler), Mandalay, Rangoon, Moulmein 

 (Swinhoe), East Indies — Labuan, Java (Brit. Mus. Coll.), Sumatra — Deli (teste 

 Bartel), S. Celebes (Snellen), Moluccas — Amboina, Arru (Pagenstecher), 

 Australia : Western Australia (Druce), Victoria and New South Wales — Brisbane 

 to Cardwell (Miskin), Sydney (Speyer). New Zealand: Auckland (Quail). 

 Polynesia : Society Islands — Tahiti, Eimeo, Pitcairn Island, &c. (Walker), Fiji 

 Island, New Guinea, New Hebrides, New Caledonia (Druce), Marshall Islands — Jaluit 

 (Rothschild), Philippines, Luzon, Bohol, Mindanao, Cebu (Semper.) Austro-Hun- 

 GARY : Taufers Valley, Innsbruck (Weiler), Tyrol (Hintenvaldner), Brenner dist. 

 (Galvagni), Bucovina, not common (Hormuzaki), Pressburg (Rozsay), Bohemia, 

 common in some years (Nickerl), Neu Sandec (Klemensiewicz), Stanislawow 

 (Werchratski), Galicia — Lemberg, Sambor (Nowicki), Briinn (Schneider), Hermann- 

 stadt (Czekelius), Eperies, not rare (Husz), Golnitz (Hudak), Upper Carinthia — 

 Salzburg (Nickerl), Portschach (Wagner), Fiume (Mann), Lavantthal, probably the 

 commonest Sphingid (Hofner), St.Lambrecht (Kodermann),Styria — Admont (Kiefer), 

 Pirano (Mathew), Innkreise, not rare — Linz district, &c. (Himsl), Dalmatian Islands 

 — Sesina, Rava (Galvagni), Riva, Gries, near Bozen, Vienna, Carlsbad, Ungarisch- 

 Brod, Moravia, Hungary, everywhere — Neusohl, Rosenau, Kaschau, Raab, 

 Budapest, Heveser and Zipser districts, Debreczen, Transsylvania, Funfkirchen, 

 Mehadia, Dalmatia (teste Bartel). Belgium: sometimes common, at other times 

 rare, Louvain, common in 1846, Longchamps, common in 1856 (Donckier), 

 Jambes, Warnant, Brussels, Frameries, Bomel, Virton (Derenne), Namur, very 

 common (Lambillion), Marchovelette, Bastogne (Colignon). Bulgaria : Sofia 

 (Bachmetjew), near Varna (Lederer). Channel Islands : Alderney, Guernsey — 

 Les Rocquettes, &c, Sark (Luff). Denmark: distributed, not rare (Bang-Haas). 



