Publ. 4. I. 1929 
SATASPES. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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C. picus Or. (= hylas auct.) (62 d). Above quite similar to typical hylas, but beneath the abdomen pious. 
is black with white spots. The colouring of the body and head is besides invariably of a brighter green, and the 
dark red belt is narrow. Southern India with Ceylon; Queensland, New Guinea; Java and Malacca to Christmas 
I.; Marshall Is. — It varies a great deal and may become so very similar to hylas that the species is only 
discernible by the anterior tibiae ending in a strong thorn. 
C. kingi Me Leay (— bucklandi Btlr., cunninghami Bsd. nec Wkr.) (62 d). Smaller than hylas, forewing kinr/i. 
with a dark brown apical band which taperingly extends down to beyond the centre of the margin. At the 
abdominal end fine orange colouring which is particularly conspicuous when the anal tuft is spread out. 
Larva green or brown, with a (variable) blackish subdorsal line which sometimes gets comb-shaped by lateral 
spots touching it. Head of the dark larval form usually red. In North and North-Western Australia, mostly 
common. 
C. woodfordi Btlr. (62 d) is one of the largest species, like a large hylas, abdomen with a broad red belt, woodfordi. 
behind it yellow, beneath black with yellow spots. In the typical form the tail is black, above slightly inter¬ 
mixed with yellowish; Salomons. - luisae R. <Sc J. is a form from the Louisiads, in which the tuft of the tail luisae. 
is above greyish ochreous, only at the base black; the chest is deeper yellow than in specimens from the 
Salomons Is. Described from 1 $. 
C. janus Wish. (= cunninghami Schauf. nec Wkr., unicolor Rothsch.) (62 d). Head, thorax, and abdomen janus. 
light olive green, without coloured belts; only the anal tuft is black and yellow. Queensland. — austrosundanus austrosun- 
R.d J., from Flores, differs from typical Australians in the narrower dark margin of the margin; — simplex . ^ dan-us. 
Rothsch., from the Loyalty Is., shows towards the end of the abdomen a darker colouring than in front. — 
The typical form is in some places of Australia from Brisbane to Rochhampton not rare; of the others only 
single specimens are known. 
C. armatus R. J . is very similar to janus (62 d) in the colouring, but on the sides of the 5th and 6th armatus. 
abdominal rings it shows a small reddish spot. From the Fidji Is. — marianna R. d> J. is a form from the marianna. 
Marianne Is., in which the red lateral spots on ring 5 are connected by a rust-coloured transverse belt across 
the abdomen, whilst the ring 6 exhibits small spots on the centre and on the sides. 
C. lifuensis Rothsch. (62 d) is easily discernible from janus by the 5th abdominal ring exhibiting a lifuensis. 
narrow red transverse belt; but then also the apex of the forewing is much more broadly margined with black. 
From Lifu, one of the Loyalty Is., in the north of New Caledonia. 
C. novobudensis Clk., from the New Hebrid Is., resembles lifuensis, but the thorax and abdomen are novobuden- 
above instead of ochreous orange more yellow, on the 5th ring there is a similar red band, but the 6th ring 
instead of the reddish lateral spots likewise shows a narrow reddish transverse band. The anal tuft is more 
uniformly brown; abdomen beneath in front bright yellow, laterally more white and black fringed, instead 
of yellow and black as in lifuensis. The dark marginal band of the forewing is narrower in novobudensis than 
in lifuensis. 
C. xanthus R. <£■ J. is very similar to the preceding species, on the whole more robustly built, the apex xanthus. 
ox the forewing a little broader black, the body especially the abdomen likewise unicoloured, but more ochreous, 
with a but faint greenish tint; body beneath orange. From the Lu-chu Is. (Okinawa). 
C. titan Rothsch. is the largest Cephonodes- species and at the same time the only one known from the titan. 
Moluccas. Body and bases of wings blackish; abdomen beneath also blackish. Anal tuft beneath brownish 
orange; chest orange; palpi greyish-yellow. Amboina. 
C. rothschildi Rbl. (62 e), from New Guinea, is a large, quite unicoloured brownish olive green form rothschildi. 
with a black costa of the forewing; in spreading the anal tuft orange lateral hair appear. 
39. Genus : Sataspes Mr. 
Whilst the Cephonodes already show the tendency of assuming the exterior of a spinecl hymenopteron, 
without a specific mimesis being recognizable *), we find in the Salaspes an unmistakable copy of the $$ of 
Xylocopa- bees developed. It consists not only in the dark bluish-black colouring, but also in the assimilation 
of the thoracal hair to the carpenter-bees flying in the same district, in the shape of the wings being exactly 
like the wings of bees, the abdomen being similarly widened and flattened as in Xylocopa and being bent 
downward in the resting insect, as if it were ready to sting, and also in the flight. Neither Mell nor myself 
succeeded in observing Sataspes drinking from blossoms, but I do not doubt that they visit flowers and merely 
*) The Cephonodes are not at all shy so that, if one takes a little care, one may catch them just as easily with one’s 
hand as a Macrogl. stellatarum. The Chinese children however, who caught harmless insects with their hands, did not dare 
to touch the hylas, but beat them down with bamboo-rods, taking' them to be Aculeatae. 
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