Acherontia styx moore. (Mengafa-suzume) 
By K. Nagano. 
Forewings blackish, whitish and ochreous sprinkled, with waved 
black striae; first stria sometimes accompany with whitish or ochreous 
line; margins of median band suffused with whitish and ochreous on 
costal half; a deep yellow diseal spot; ochreous short dashes between 
each veins of margin. Hindwines yellow-ochre; veins posteriorly more 
or less black, median and subterminal band dark or black. THSxpanse 
93-106mm. Head black; thorax bluish black with black border; a 
skull-shaped blotch with oenre and black; abdomen deep yellow with 
black transverse bands on each segments; a longitudinal darker-blue 
stripe. 
Kiusiu, Shikoku, Honsiu; 6-9. Larva green (Sometimes darker- 
brown), on 4-11 seg.a series of oblique lateral stripes, yellow below 
blue above, meeting in an angle on back; on dorsal of 4-11 seg. blue 
dotted; horn yellow, green dotted. on Sesamum indicum, Solanum 
melongena, 8. tuberosum, etc.; 6-9. 
Rehan 
RPI RS 

