dumigani. 
brachycera. 
grisea. 
inexacta- 
panopus. 
celebensis. 
532 HOPLIOCNEMA; DOLBINOPSIS; DOLBINA; COMPSOGENE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
Queensland. — ab. dumigani Clk. is based upon a melanotic specimen from Clermont in Queensland, which, 
particularly on the abdomen, shows intensified dark and reduced white bands. 
13. Genus: flopliociieina R. & J. 
Allied to the following genus, but more slender, the antennae less than half the length of the costa, 
without distinct terminal hooks. Legs roughly scaled, anterior tibiae with some terminal thorns beside the 
terminal spike, from which the name of the genus is derived. 
H. brachycera Low. (= melanoleuca R. & J.) (60 e). A small lepidopteron with dark brown forewings 
which are crossed by 4 transverse lines, and almost white hindwings. West Australia; rare. 
14. Genus: I><>lhfMopsis R. & J. 
r l he genus which is briefly characterized in Vol. II (p. 237) lives on the palaearctic-Indian frontier and 
may therefore also occur in the warmer valleys of Kashmir in the Indian region. 
D. grisea Hmps. differs from Dolbina inexacta (61 a) in the head, thorax and abdomen showing a grey 
ground-colour; the black lines are similar, but without white on the thorax. Forewing similarly marked, but 
with grey ground-colour. Hindwing dull blackish-brown; fringe not speckled, but grey, only with dark dots 
at the ends of the veins. Kulu in Kashmir. Only the male has been described; apparently very rare. As to 
further particulars we refer to Vol. II, p. 237. 
15. Genus: l>olbisia Stgr. 
As regards the genus we refer to Vol. II, p. 237. The 3 species known are all Eastern Asiatic; a peculiar 
fact is that the larvae do not resemble those of Sphinx or Acherontia, but so much those of Smerinthus ocellatus 
that they are often difficult to distinguish from them. 
D. inexacta Wkr. (= khasianum Rothsch.) (61 a). Habitus and marking exactly like that of the palae- 
arctic exacta Stgr. (Vol. II, pi. 36 e), but easily discernible by the abdomen beneath showing large black central 
dots on the segments. — Larva bluish-green, head narrowed upwards, with a blue, slightly bent horn and dark 
green lateral oblique stripes being below bordered with whitish. Adult larva very similar to that of Smer. 
ocellatus', on Fraxinus and Ligustrum. South China to Bombay and Assam. 
d) Tribus Ambulicini. 
Like the Acherontiini this Sphingid division also contains about 140 species distributed over all parts 
of the world; they attain, however, the largest size in Australia where Coequosa triangularis has an expanse 
of almost 20 cm, the body being more than 6 cm long and more than 2 cm thick, thus numbering among the 
biggest lepidoptera. The disunion of the tribe Ambulicini from the Acherontiinae and the other Sphingid groups 
is presumably of a relatively recent date, so that no differences whatever can be stated referring to all the 
members of this tribe. On the whole the Ambulicini mostly exhibit strongly curved and often even dentate 
distal margins on the forewings, the forewing being frequently falciform, not so equally lancet-shaped as in 
the Acherontiinae, and the distal margins are often notched or undulate. The wings are kept more spread out, 
the abdomen of the resting insect is often more upturned than in the preceding ones; the larvae are generally 
crenulated and their heads are pointed upwards. Moreover the group is well connected with the Acherontiinae 
by the Sphingulicae. 
16. Genus : Compsogene R. J. 
One large species composes this genus. Forewing with a straight costal margin and a still smoother 
distal margin as if it were cut off with scissors. The median area is quite straightly defined inside and outside. 
Separated from the allied genera by the apex of the forewing being so much truncated that the distal margin 
is directly below it flattened and even very slightly drawn in, whereupon it projects in a very obtuse angle. 
Larva like the enlarged larva of Marumba, but with a long, thin horn which is almost straightly extended 
hindwards. 
C. panopus Or. (= pavonica Mr.) (61 a). Forewing pinkish-brown or brownish yellow, parted by 2 straight 
dark brown stripes into 3 areas. Hindwing inside pink, outside brown with 5 transverse stripes. — celebensis 
R.dJ. On the fore wing above the space between the subbasal dark stripe and the cell-end stripes at the costal 
margin is narrower than in Malay and Continental-Indian specimens. The proximal oblique streak of this 
