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Family PTEROPHORIDAE 
Sphenarches Meyrick 
S. caffer Zeller (18526: 348); Meyrick (1913: 
5). New Hebrides. 
Alucita Linne 
A. aptalis Walker (18646: 950); Meyrick 
(1913: 17). New Hebrides. 
Marasmarcha Meyrick 
M. pumilio Zeller (1873: 324); Meyrick 
(1913: 28). Marquesas Islands: Nuka Hiva, 
Hiva Oa, Tahuata, Fatu Hiva. Society Islands: 
Tahiti. Austral Islands: Rurutu ("St. George” 
Exped. ) . 
Family THYRIDIDAE 
Hypolamprus Hampson 
H. squalida Warren (1908: 337); Dalla Torre 
(1924: 1 6). Loyalty Islands: Lifu. 
Family SPHINGIDAE 
Subfamily ACHERONTIINAE 
Herse Oken 
H. convolvuli Linne (1758: 490); Wagner 
(1913: 7). Society Islands: Tahiti. 
H. fasciatus Rothschild (1894: 94); Wagner 
(1913: 5). Loyalty Islands: Lifu. 
PsiLIGRAMMA Rothschild and Jordan 
P. menephron Cramer (1780: 164); Wagner 
(1913: 25). 
subsp. lifuense Rothschild (1894: 90). New 
Caledonia ( W agner ) : N oumea ( Quod ) . 
New Hebrides (Mrs. Pruvot). Loyalty Is- 
lands: Lifu (Rothschild). 
Subfamily SESIINAE 
Cephonodes Hiibner 
C. janus Miskin (1891: 6); Wagner (1914: 
216 ). 
subsp. simplex Rothschild (1894: 86). 
Loyalty Islands: Lifu. 
C. lifuensis Rothschild (1894: 66). New Cale- 
donia: Noumea (Quod). Loyalty Islands: 
Lifu. 
C. novebudensis Clark (1927: 106). New 
Hebrides. 
Subfamily philampelinae 
Chromis Hiibner 
Ch. erotus Cramer (1777: 12, CIV, B); Wag- 
ner (1915: 232). New Caledonia (Marie): 
Noumea (Quod, Risbec). New Hebrides 
(Mrs. Pruvot): Vate, Port Vila (Risbec). 
Society Islands (J. J. Walker, 1883; Paris 
Museum, coll, de Joannis; "St. George” 
Exped.): Bora Bora ("St. George” Exped.). 
Marquesas Islands: Taiohae (Delmas), Hiva 
Oa, Nuka Hiva, Tahuata ("St. George” 
Exped.; Collenette, 1935). Archipelago of the 
Tuamotus: Napuka. Austral Islands: Rurutu 
("St. George” Exped.). 
Deilephila Laspeyres 
D. placida Walker (185 66: 186); Wagner 
(1915: 239). 
subsp. torenia Druce (1882: 16). Loyalty 
Islands: Lifu. New Hebrides: Espiritu 
Santo (Risbec). 
Macroglossum Scopoli 
M. hirundo Boisduval (1832: 184); Wagner 
(1915:296). 
subsp. typ. Society Islands: Tahiti (Dumont 
d’Urville in coll. Paris Museum; Challier; 
"St. George” Exped.). 
subsp. confluens Rothschild and Jordan 
(1906: 407). New Hebrides (Wagner): 
Vate, Port Vila (Risbec). 
subsp. lifuensis Rothschild ( 1894: 67 ) . New 
Caledonia. Loyalty Islands: Lifu (Wag- 
ner). 
M. corythus Walker (185 66: 92); Wagner 
(1915: 299). 
subsp. novebudensis Clark (1926: 54). New 
Hebrides. 
subsp. fuscicauda Rothschild and Jordan 
(1903: 663). Loyalty Islands: Lifu. 
M. moluccensis Rothschild (1894: 67). 
Loyalty Islands: Lifu. Might really be 
M. corythus Wlk. 
M. marquesanum Collenette (1935: 209). 
Marquesas Islands: Hiva Oa (Le Bronnec). 
