MR. A. G BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID.E. 565 



66. CHiEROCAMPA HAITENSIS. 



Chcerocampa haitensis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 9. no. 18. 



Haiti (Tweedie). Type, B.M. 



67. ClIcEROCAMPA CHIRON. 



Sphinx chiron, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. i. p. 56, pi. 26. fig. 3 (1770). 

 Ch<eroca?npa chiron (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 132. no. 7 (1856). 



Brazil (Saunders); Monte Video (Darwin). B.M. 



68. Ch>erocampa nechus. 



Sphinx nechus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. ii. p. 125, pi. 178. fig. B (1779). 

 Theretra nechus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 135. no. 1447 (1816). 

 Chcerocampa chiron (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 132. no. 7 (1856). 

 Chcerocampa hortulanus (sic), Scliaufuss, Nunquam Otiosns, i. p. 18(1870). 



Mexico (Doubleday). B.M. 



69. Chcerocampa fugax. 



Chcerocampa fuff ax, Boisduval, Lep. Guat. p. 70 (1870). 

 Honduras and Mexico. 

 Apparently allied to C. ceratomioides. 



70. Chcerocampa ceratomioides. 



2 .Chcerocampa ceratomioides, Grote & Robinson, Lye. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. p. 358, pi. 14. fig. 2 (1867). 

 Pergesa anubus, Walker (nee Sphinx anubus, Cramer), Lep. Het. viii. p. 151. no. 3. 



Brazil (Becker) ; Rio (Stevens) ; Venezuela (Dyson). B.M. 



71. Chcerocampa nessus. 



Sphinx nessus, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 46, pi. 27. fig. 1 (1773). 

 Chcerocampa nessus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 140. no. 22 (1856). 

 Sphinx equestris, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 365. no. 29 (1793). 

 Var. Chcerocampa rubicundus, Scliaufuss, Nunquam Otiosus, i. p. 18 (1870). 



Silhet (Stainsforth) ; North India (James); Moulmein (Clerck) ; Canara (Ward); 

 Ceylon (Templeton); Hong-Kong (Bownng) ; Java (Horsjield). B.M. 



Dr. Scliaufuss describes the Javan type. 



Mr. Lewis took the larva of C. nessus upon the wild yam (Dioscorea) ; it is of a 

 chalky-green colour, whitish above, with paler dorsal and a lateral longitudinal sub- 

 dorsal white streak, also six oblique white stripes between the spiracles, one or two 

 rounded whitish lateral spots on the anterior segments ; anal horn yellow, prolegs also 

 yellow. 



