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19. PROTOPARCE CONVOLVULI. 



Sphinx convolvuli, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. ii. p. 789. no. 6 (1766) ; Roesel, -Ins. Bclust. i. tab. vii. 



figs. 1-5 (1746). 

 Agrius convolvuli, Hiibner, Vcrz. bek. Schmett. p. 140. no. 1506 (1816). 



England [British Coll.] ; Europe (Becker) ; South Africa (Smith) ; Port Natal (Guein- 

 zius). 



I cannot find any difference between African and European examples. 



20. PROTOPARCE DISTANS. 



Sphinx convolvuli, var. distans, Butler, Lep. New Zealand, in Voy. ' Erebus ' and ' Terror,' i. p. 30. 



no. 10, pi. ix. fig. 11 (1874). 

 Sphinx convolvuli (part.), Boisduval, Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, p. 187 (1832-35) ; Walker, Lep. Het.viii. 



]>. 212. no. 1 (1856). 

 Sphinx roseafasciata, Scott (cit. Kocb), Indo- Austral. Lep.- Faun. p. 54 (1873). 



New Zealand (Sinclair, Bolton) ; Sydney (Lambert) ; Australia. Type, B.M. 



This is altogether darker in both sexes, and has a more ashy hue than the European 

 species ; the early stages will probably be quite unlike. 



21. Protoparce orientalis, n. sp. (Plate XCI. figs. 16, 17.) 

 Sphinx convolvuli, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. i. p. 267. no. 616 (1857). 



North India (James, Hearsay) ; Scinde 1 ( Warwick) ; North Bengal (Saunders) ; 

 Moulmein (Clerck); Ceylon (Templetov) ; Hong-Kong (Bowring); Java (Horsfield); 

 Hakodadi (Whitely). B.M. 



This species is wonderfully like some African examples of P. convolvuli, being altogether 

 paler than the European form ; it differs from the African variety in always having the 

 centre of the middle band of secondaries quite pale, and paler rosy bands on the abdo- 

 men; the larva differs considerably, being more slenderly formed, and without the 

 double dorsal series of black spots. It feeds on the sweet potato. 



22. Protoparce pseudoconvolvuli. 



Sphinx pseudoconvolvuli, Schaufuss, Nunquam Otiosus, i. p. 15 (1870). 



Natal. 



" Like a small pale Sphinx convolvuli ; the underside uniform grey, only the margin 

 a little darker. Width 75 millimetres." The above is the only description given of 

 this insect. 



23. Protoparce 1 tisiphone. 



Sphinx tisiphone, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 359. no. 19 (1764). 

 " Indies." 



The description of this species is not sufficiently precise to enable me to determine it. 



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