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Genus 7. Cizaea, Walker. 

 - , Cizaea ardexi^e. 



Sphinx ardenia, Lewin, Prodr. Ent. iii. pi. 2 (1805). 



Deilephila ardenite, Boisduval, Voy. de F Astrolabe, Ent. p. 183. no. 1 (1832-1835). 



Cisara ardenice, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 120. no. 1 (1856). 



Australia (Strange, Stevens). B.M. 



Genus 8. Microlophia, Felder. 

 Microlophia, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. v. (1865) . 



Allied to Pergesa and Panacra ; at once distinguished by the strongly arched outer 

 margin of the primaries, abruptly excavated above the external angle, also by the shorter 

 body and much less prominent head. 



£> J Microloph ia sculpt a. 



Microlophia sculpta, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. iv. pi. 75. fig. 9 (1874). 



Primaries with basal two-thirds olive-brown, with the outer margin very irregular, fes- 

 tooned, with a buff edge ; external third of wing whity brown, darker along the margin ; 

 a transverse central horizontal whitish bar, terminating at the end of the cell in a hyaline 

 spot ; secondaries with basal third and abdominal area fulvous, costal area testaceous, 

 remainder of the wing chocolate-brown, marked near anal angle by a whitish submar- 

 ginal litura and two or three small black buff-zoned ocellated spots ; body pale brown, 

 with the pterygodes and a central prothoracic streak red-brown ; wings below clay- 

 coloured, and transversely crossed by indistinct dots and lines ; primaries with end of 

 cell brownish, a reniform discocellular hyaline white spot; body below sordid clay- 

 colour. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 lines. 



South India (Ward). Type, coll. F. Moore. 



Genus 9. Basiothea, Walker. 

 Basiothea, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 124. gen. 13 (1856). 



Basiothea idricus. 



Sphinx idricus, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 2, pi. 2. fig. 2 (1773). 



Basiothea idricus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 125. no. 1 (1856). 



Deilephila idrieus (sic), Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. p. 73. no. 73, pi. 10. fig. 5 (1833). 



Chcrrocampa idrceus (sic!), Guenee, Notes sur Tile de la Reunion, Lep. p. 21 (1862). 



Sphinx medea, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 143. no. 19 (1781). 



Sphinx clio, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 377. no. 65 (1793). 



Sjjhinx onothberina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 22. figs. 58, 59 (1797) . 



Cluerocanipa transfigurata, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Monatschr. vol. iv. p. 42. no. 42 (1860). 



