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have an expanse of hardly 2 cm. The larvae, however, attain a length of 5 cm; their shape is somewhat like 
that of Macroglossum. An Ethiopian species, nana Bsd. ( = gracilipes Wllgr.) (Vol. XIV, pi. 66 b), 
approaches the frontier of the Indian region in Southern Arabia, but it has not yet been ascertained in that 
region itself. 
S. pumilio Bsd. (= pusilla Btlr., minima Btlr.) (64 d). The shape and size is that of Eastern-European pumilio. 
gorgon (Vol. II, pi. 40 g), but the hindwing showing an orange yellow basal half is like that of Gurelca. — Adult 
larva 5 cm, violettish-brown or green with a long, straight, thin horn, an ochreous-brown head and a bone- 
coloured lateral stripe. On Galium gracile and Oldenlendia. Pupa lustrous bone-coloured. The imagines are 
not rare in some places, flying in the early dawn, drinking from Labiatae. The range of the species extends 
from North-India to the South as far as Malacca, to the north through South and Central China, where it 
also enters into the palaearctic region (near Shanghai). 
58. Genus: Eurypteryx Bsd. 
This genus containing only 4 species is already very closely allied to the Macroglossum. It is exclusively 
Indo-Australian. Head large. Palpi projecting in a long snout and already recalling the following genus. The 
forewing of the G exhibits at the margin below the apex a semicircular indentation, and the margin of the 
hindwing projects tooth-like above the anal angle. 
E. bhaga Mr. (63 e as bagha). Unicoloured dark sepia brown, marked blackish; a deep dark shadow bhciga. 
extends behind the centre of the costa to the anal angle and is continued on the hindwing. It is distally bor¬ 
dered by a light arcuate line, proximad it gradually brightens up. Some more light transverse lines cut off 
the basal and apical parts of the forewing. From North India to Nias. — obtnmcata B. <h J. Margin of fore- obtruncala. 
wing more convex; antemedian band without a distinct light interior margin; the black basal spot is intense. 
Hindwing: the costal margin which is straight from the base to the centre, then suddenly recedes, so that the apex 
of the hindwing appears slightly truncate. From the Minahassa (Celebes). 
E. molucca Fldr. (= biovatus Oberth.) (63 d). Here the margin of the forewing is linear, not drawn molucca. 
in below the apex. At once recognizable by the dirty white costal spot before the apex. On the intensely pink- 
tinged under surface the light costal spot is smaller. New Guinea to the Louisiad Archipelago and Moluccas. 
— In obiana Huwe which hardly deserves to be denominated the inner margin of the forewing is a little more obiana. 
convex in the centre of the wing, the anal angle projects more pointedly, and beneath the oblique partition- 
streak from the apex is continued a little farther (to the median vein). From Obi I. 
E. shelfordi Bothsch. {<$ = pendleburgi Clk.) is considerably larger than the preceding ones, recognizable shelfordi. 
by the abdomen being flattened as in Macroglossum and by the white stigma and the white dot before it. 
Colouring of forewing dark sooty brown with a few small dispersed whitish scales and a darkened central area. 
In the $ the white stigma is large and distinct, in the $ tiny. Malacca, Borneo. 
E. falcata Gehl., from New Guinea, only described in 1922, is distinguished from the others more by falcata. 
the shape of the wings than by its colouring and marking. Particularly the apex of the forewing is more pro¬ 
duced. 
59. Genus: Giganteopalpus Huwe. 
The only species of this genus is very near to Eur. bliaga and shows the anal tuft expanded already 
very much like Macroglossum, as in the $ of bhaga. Recognizable by the grotesquely thickened and prolonged 
palpi, in the colouring and marking similar to the preceding ones. 
G. mirabilis Bothsch. (<$ = capito Huwe) (63 e). The female differs from the figured male in the whiter mirabilis. 
and larger stigma of the fore wing; the light yellowish-brown spots in the fore wing and hind wing are brighter 
and more prominent. The pencil-shaped anal tuft is exhibited also by the female. Sunda Is. 
60. Genus: Spliecocliiia Blch. 
This genus being composed of two species (one of which occurs in North America) has already been 
described in Vol. II, p. 252. It is allied to the European Proserpinus , and the adult larva has no tail-horn, 
but instead of it only a knob-like protuberance. 
S. caudata Brem. db Grey (Vol. II, pi. 39 e). Recognizable by the clumsy, posteriorly truncate abdomen 
and the light yellow hindwings bordered with dark. Colouring otherwise darkpiut-brown. —Whilst the typical 
caudata seems to be purely palaearctic, a brighter coloured form occurs in South China: — meridionalis Mell, meridiona- 
lis. 
