572 ME. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID^E. 



Genus 1G. Daphnis, Hiibner. 

 Daphnis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134 (1816). 



, " 1. Daphnis neril 



Sphinx nerii, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 798. no. 5 (1766) ; Roesel, Ins. Belust. iii. p. 85, pi. 15. 



figs. 1-3, pi. 16. figs. 4-6 (1755). 

 Daphnis nerii, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134. no. 1441 (1816). 

 Chcerocampa nerii, Curtis, Brit. Ent. xiii. pi. 626. 

 Deilephila nerii, Boisduval, Faune Ent. cle Madag. p. 74. no. 6 (1833). 



Italy (Leach); Athens (Merlin); East India, Canara (Ward); Mauritius (Beke); 



Natal (Gueinzius). B.M. 



The examples mentioned by Mr. Walker as coming from Ceylon are sexes of D. 

 hypothous of Cramer. 



2. Daphnis hypothous. 



Sphinx hypothous, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 165, pi. 285. fig. F (1782). 

 Daphnis hypothous, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 134. no. 1440 (1816). 



Darapsa hypothous (part.), Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. p. 271. no. 627, pi. x. figs. 2, 2a, transforma- 

 tions (1857). 



d $, Ceylon (Templeton) ; Java (Horsfield); Labuan and Sarawak (Low). B.M. 



The larva of I), hypothous is figured in Horsfield and Moore's Catalogue, pi. x. fig. 2. 



3. Daphnis pallescens. 



Daphnis pallescens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 6. 



Queensland (Janson). Type, B.M. 



4. Daphnis protrudens. 



Daphnis protrudens, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. tab. lxxvi. fig. 7 (Nov. 1874). 



Allied to the preceding. 



5. Daphnis angustans. 



Daphnis angusta?)s, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. tab. lxxvi. fig. 6 (Nov. 1874). 



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Allied to the succeeding species, but altogether darker and differently coloured. 



6. Daphnis horsfieldii, n. sp. 



Darapsa hypothous, Walker (nee Cramer), Lep. Het. viii. p. 185. no. 6 (1856). 

 Dai-apsa hypothous 6 , Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. p. 271. no. 627 (1857). 



Smaller than D. hypothous; primaries with the outer margin much more waved, 



