566 ME. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPHING-ID^E. 



The dark variety of the larva is pale brick -red above and pale purplish brown beiow ; 

 the lateral longitudinal and oblique lines dusky brown ; lateral rounded spots with 

 pale bluish superior areas ; anterior segments greyish ; horn olivaceous. 



/72. Chcerocampa sceofa. 



Deilephila scrofa, Boisduval, Voy. de P Astrolabe, Ent. p. 185. no. 3 (1832—35). 

 Chcerocampa scrofa, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 147. no. 35 (1856). 

 Deilephila porcia, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv. p. 42 (1860). 



South Australia (Bakewell) ; Australia (Ker). B.M. 



Dr. Boisduval speaks of this as perhaps only a variety of thyelia, a species to which 

 it bears no resemblance. 



73. Ch^eeocampa igttea. 



Chcerocampa ignea, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 10, pi. i. fig. 4. 



Moreton Bay (Gibbons). Type, B.M. 



This may perhaps be the undescribed form quoted by Koch (Indo-Austral. Lep. 

 Fauna, ii. p. 53, 1873) under the name of C. bernardus. 



74. Ch^eeocampa beejststus. 



Sphinx brennus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 233, pi. 398. fig. B (1782). 

 Amphion brennus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 135. no. 1445 (1816). 

 Chcerocampa brennus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 144. no. 29 (1856). 



Amboina. 



75. Ch^eeocampa pallicosta. 



Chcerocampa pallicosta, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 145. no. 31 (1856). 



Silhet (Staimforth) ; Hong-Kong (Harrington). Type, B.M. 



£ I 76. Chceroc ampa eeotus.. 



Sphinx erotus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 12, pi. 104. fig. B (1779). 

 Chromis erotus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 138. no. 1479 (1816). 

 Chcerocampa erotus (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 146. no. 34 (1856) . 



Australia (Stevens, Stevenson) ; Cape York (Macgillivray) ; Solomon Islands (Brench- 

 ley). B.M. 



All our examples are females ; so that I doubt the distinctness of this and the next 

 species. See, however, Koch (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1871, pp. 239-41). 



77. ClLEROCAMPA EROTOIDES. 



GnathothUbus erotoides, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Monatsschrift, iv. p. 43. no. 44 (1860). 

 Chcerocampa erotus (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 146. no. 34 (1856), Suppl. p. 1852 (1866). 



