556 ME. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID.E. 



11. CHcEROCAMPA gracilis. 



Charocampa gracilis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 8, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



Congo (Richardson) ; Sierra Leone (Morgan). Type, B.M. 



12. Ch.erocampa elegans. 



Chcerocampa elegans, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 8, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



d, Java (Horsfield); ?, Silhet (Stainsforth). Type, B.M. 



In Mr. Moore's collection from North-east Bengal. 



q /'"lo. Chcerocampa theylia. 



Sphinx theylia, Linnseus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 360 (1764). 



Isoples theylia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 1455 (1816). 



Chcerocampa thyelia (sic), Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. i. p. 276. no. 638 (1857). 



Sphinx boerhavicB, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 542. no. 22 (1775); Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. p. 40. no. 3, 



pi. xx. fig. 3 (1776). 

 Sphinx pinastrina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 30. fig. 85 (1797). 



Sphinx octopunctata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2386 ; Zscbach, p. 95. no. 286. 

 Chanrocampa eson (part.), "Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 137. no. 17 (1856). 



North India (Argent, Hearsay) ; Ceylon (Tenypleton) ; Hong-Kong (Bow ring) ; Sara- 

 wak (Wallace). B.M. 



(2,) 14. Chcerocampa rapflesii, Horsfield, MS. 



Sphinx theylia <J, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. 1, p. 58, pi. 226. fig. F (1782). 



6 , J ava (Horsfield); d $, Canara (Ward). Type, B.M. 



The above is easily distinguished from C. theylia, Linnseus (see Cramer, Pap. Exot. 



iii. pi. 226. fig. E), by its deeper coloration, the two continuous parallel dark bands of 



the primaries, and the uniformly dark dull red of the secondaries ; it may, perhaps, be 



only a dark variety. Mr. Moore has it from Madras. 



15. Chcerocampa trilineata. 

 Chmrocampa trilineata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 30 (1864). 



Venezuela (Dyson). Type, B.M. 



Very similar to the preceding, but much larger, with more elongated primaries. 



/16. CH-EROCAMPA xeoptolemus. 



Sphinx neoptolemus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 23, pi. 301. fig. F (1782). 

 Isoples neoptolemus, Hiibner, Yerz. bek. Schmett, p. 135. no. 1454 (1816). 

 Chmrocampa neoptolanus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 134. no. 12 (1856). 



Surinam. 



Only differs from the preceding in the narrower red band of the secondaries. 



