572 MR. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPIIINGLD^. 



Genus 1G. Dapiinis, Hiibner. 

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



1. Daphnis nerii. 



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. 13 L. no. 1 111 (1816). 

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

 Deilephila nerii, Boisduval, Faune Ent. dc 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). 



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

 tions (1857). 



4 2, Ceylon (Templeton) ; Java (Ilorsfield); Labuan and Sarawak (Low). B.M. 



The larva of D. 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 (Jan son). lyP e > B.M. 



4. Daphnis protrudens. 



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

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Allied to the preceding. 



5. DAPnNIS ANGUSTANS. 



Daphnis angustans, 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 horspieldii, n. sp. 



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

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



Smaller than 1). hypothous; primaries with the outer margin much more waved, 



