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MEGACORMA; MEGANOTON. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
show a few ochreous punctiform spots on feeble light subdorsal lines; these spots may also be darker than the 
ground-colour; in the sides mostly dark oblique shadows, but the whole larva may also be dark blackish-brown. 
The green larvae are dorsally marked dark brown. The face has vertical frontal stripes. On Convolvulaceae, 
according to Mell in China also on a Papilionacea, Dolichos lablab. — The imagines occur throughout the 
year in the Tropics, in the northernmore districts preferably in autumn, rarely in spring. The 9P are fre¬ 
quently sterile. 
H. fasciata Rothsch, (60 a), from the South Sea Island of Lifu. Dark brown instead of dark grey; the 
black abdominal belts are widened so much that they'■also cover the red places of convolvuli , so that they are 
only separated by narrow whitish transverse belts. 
H. luctifera Whr. (= schmeltzi Btlr., lixi Rothsch., triangularis Holl., concolorata K.) (60 a), from the 
Moluccas, Key Is. and New Guinea, chiefly differs from fasciata in the bright white central dot of the forewing 
and more effaced markings, so that the bands on the hindwings are no more distinct. 
H. godarti Me Leay (= abadonna Ky., distincta Luc., eremitus Btlr.) (60 b) is a small form from Northern 
Australia; wings almost exactly as in convolvuli, but the abdomen without any rosy red. which is replaced by 
a dingy white. 
3. Genus: M^gaeonim R. & J. 
This genus contains but 1 large, grey South-Indian species at once discernible from the preceding 
genera by the pointedly produced anal angle of the forewing, whereby it also approximates the very similar 
Meganoton analis. The species is distinguished by an excavation in the scaling on the outside at the end of the 
1st palpal joint. 
obliqua. M. obliqua Whr. (= nestor Bsd.) (60 b). Grey, shaded with brownish, forewing with undulate transverse 
bands and a somewhat curved black stripe from the centre of the costa to the margin above the anal angle. 
Very similar to Meganoton analis (60 c), but the transverse streaks in the forewing are differently situate from 
what the figure shows. India and Ceylon, from Burmah and the Sunda Is. to New Pomerania and presumably 
New Guinea, though rare; I only captured once a specimen near Colombo, which had settled on the trunk of 
remota. a fig-tree. - In remota Lord., from Bougainville, the upper surface is more of an olive tint, and below the 
oblique streak through the forewing there is, between the 1st and 2nd median branches, an oblong black 
spot. 
b) Tribus Sphingicae. 
Here all those Sphingid genera are united, that are grouped around the genuine „Sphinx“; they 
most typically show the Sphingid shape. 
4. Genus: Meganoton Bsd, 
The genus contains three species all of which are from the Indian region. A fourth species, from Japan 
( scribae Aust.), is questionable. They resemble the preceding species M. obliqua, but do not exhibit the inden¬ 
tation in the scaling of the 1st palpal joint. Type: M. nyctiphanes Whr. 
analis. M. analis Fldr. (= grandis Btlr., tranquilaris Btlr., discistriga Hmps. nec Whr.) (60 c; Vol. II, pi. 36 c). 
Very similar to Megan-obliqua; larger, the distal transverse stripe of the forewing composed of a chain of small, 
parallel, longitudinal spots. — Larva mostly unicoloured green excepting a yellow lateral oblique stripe which 
extends from the base of the last pair of abdominal legs broadly into the yellow, long, quite straight caudal 
horn. Sometimes there are brownish saddle-markings on the mesodorsum; on Sassafras (S. tzurnu). Pupa 
with a moderately long, semicircularly bent sucker-nose. — Distributed in the palaearctic south-east, from 
Shanghai through Central and South China across the Himalaya to Assam. 
nyctiphanes. M. nyctiphanes Whr. (= cxntolophia Btlr.) (60 b) is much smaller than analis ; upper surface deep dark 
brown, so that the transverse streaks of the forewing are indistinct. Only the white central dot of the forewing 
and a chain of small light spots through the centre of the hindwing are conspicuous. Abdomen almost spotless. — 
Larva grass-green with a white dorsal stripe from the 2nd ring to the horn; beside the yellow oblique stripe 
extending into the horn there are some more from the 5th to 9th rings. — India and Indo-China, Andamans, 
Ceylon, Borneo, and Palawan. 
yunnan- M. yunnanfuensis Clarh, Apparently near to rufescens drqcomontis, but with more distinct wavy 
fueii sis. transverse stripes, of a darker tint, the habitus more similar to nyctiphanes ; Yunnan-fu in South China. 
rufescens. M. rufescens Btlr. (= rubescens Btlr., cocytioides Rothsch.) (60 c) is very similar to the preceding species, 
but still darker sepia-brown, and discernible by the absence of the row of light spots in the disc of the hindwing. North 
fasciata. 
luctifera. 
godarti. 
