598 ME. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPHINGIDTE. 



Java (Horsfield) ; Hong Kong (Bowring) ; Shanghai, China, East India, Philippines 

 (Bowring). B.M. 



I have received examples of this species from Mr. Lewis. The smaller form of it was 

 bred by him in Japan ; and as he has had the transformations carefully drawn by a 

 native artist, I am now enabled to figure them, proving the entire distinctness of this 

 species from A. atropos. He believes that the larger examples may be referable to a 

 distinct species, the small Japanese examples being constant in size and in the absence 

 of the ventral black spots upon the abdomen. The larva feeds on Sesamum orientate. 



3. AciIERONTIA ATKOPOS. 



Sphinx atropos, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 318. no. 8 (1764). 

 AcheronHa atropos, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 139. no. 1494 (181(5). 



England [Brit, coll.] ; Europe (Becker) ; Sierra Leone (Morgan) ; Mauritius (Bclce) ; 

 South Africa (Smith). B.M. 



This species may be at once distinguished from the two preceding (in its perfect state) 

 by the deeper orange tint of the secondaries and abdomen, and by the transverse blackish 

 belts on the underside of the abdomen. The larvae differ considerably. 



4. Acherontia morta. (Plate XCII. fig. 9.) 



AcheronHa morta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 140. no. 1496 (1816). 

 Sphinx atropos, var., Cramer, Pap. Exot. hi. p. 74, pi. 237. fig. A (1782). 

 Sphinx atropos, Gray, Curler's Animal Kingdom, pi. 137. fig. 4 (1832). 

 AcheronHa satanas, Boisduval, Hist. Nat. dcs Lep. pi. 16. fig. 1 (1836). 

 AcheronHa let he, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 87, pi. 42. fig. 2 (1848). 

 ? Sphinx lachesis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 434. nos. 26, 27 (1798). 



Java (Horsfield) ; Hong Kong (Bowring) ; Ceylon (Templeton) ; Silhet (8ower/>i/) ; 

 Assam (Warwick). B.M. 



Mr. Walker adopted the most recent name for this species : Mr. Moore, however, 

 recorded it as A. satanas, with a query as to Hubner's species being the same; but as 

 Cramer's figure is clearly a representation of a Javese example of this species, we 

 cannot avoid adopting Hubner's name for it. 



Subfamily VI. SPHINGIN^E. 



Genus 1. Tatoglossum, .n. gen. 



Allied to Aiiccry.v (restricted). Body more robust; thorax much shorter; prothorax 

 not extending so far in advance of the wings ; mesothorax not crested. Head shorter ; 

 palpi narrower, closely appressed to the front of head ; proboscis long ; anus of male 



