566 ME. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHING1DJE. 



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

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

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



72. Chcerocampa scbofa. 



Deikphila scrofa, Boisduval, Voy. de PAstrolabe, Ent. p. 185. no. 3 (1832-35). 

 Chcerocampa scrofa, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 117. no. 35 (1856). 

 Deilephila porcia, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv. p. 42 (18G0) . 



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. Chcerocampa ignea. 



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. ClIiEROCAMPA BRENNUS. 



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

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

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



Amboina. 



75. Chcerocampa pallicosta. 



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

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



76. Chcerocampa erotus. 



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

 Chromis erotus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. 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- 

 leij). 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. ClIcEROCAMPA EROTOIDES. 



Gnathothlibus erotoides, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Monatsschrift, iv. p. 43. no. 44 (I860). 

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



