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NEW SPniNGIDAE. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and KARL JORDAN, Pu.D. 



1. Protoparce fosteri spec. uov. 



(J. Close to P. lichenea Bnrm. (1856). No sliarply defined line on mesothoracic 

 tegiila. Abdomen beneath pnre white, mesial dots black ; side-patches of tergites 

 white, large. Pulvillns of claw-segments present, bnt small. 



Wings, iippt'rsidc. Forewing narrower than in both lichenea and Jlore^tan ; 



the interspaces between the black lines purer white ; hairy patch at base restricted, 

 more extended white; black longitudinal discal streaks 11^ — M^ rather longer than in 

 lichenea ; first and second discal line heavy, merged together as in lichenen, inter- 

 space between second and third line white from costal to inner margin, the tiiird 

 line crenate, well marked ; interspace between third and fonrth lines buffisii white, 

 especially the posterior portion of this interspace much purer huffish white than 

 in the allied species ; fifth line widened at costal margin to a large triangular 

 patch ; interspace between this patch and the oblique apical line huffish white. 



Hindwing more elongate than in lichenea ; white from base to first band, 



except a large patch between cell and SM-, this patch brown-black, contiunons with 

 the first band ; interspaces between the three browu-black bauds white posteriorly, 

 sharply defined, the white colour gradually shaded over with brown anteriorly, but 

 the interspace remaining distinct to costal margin. 



Underside. Forewing deeper black-brown than in lichenea ; cell more 



washed with grey ; two rather distinct brown-black lines on disc, the interspace 

 between them and a band at the distal side of the second line greyish white, 

 distinct; submarginal area also more extended grey than m Jloredan vmCl lichenea. 



Hindwing : greyish-white ; a heavy black line touching cell, curved basad on 



abdominal fold, more proximal behind than the corresponding line of the allied 

 species ; just outside this line a second one, dentate, rather thin, joining the first 

 line at M' ; a third line farther distad, thin, partly obsolescent between the veins, 

 very strongly dentate ; marginal baud well defined, about 5 mm. broad in middle, 

 j)aler brown-black than first line ; interspace between the marginal band and the 

 third line about as wide as the baud. 



Tenth tergite broader vertically than in the iillied species. Harpe in shape 

 similar to that of lichenea and Jiorestan, rather smaller, emargiuate ventrally, 

 its edge slightly irregular, non-dentate. Tooth of penis-sheath longer than in the 

 allied sjjccies. 



Length of forewing : 04 mm. 



Ilah. >Sapucay, Paraguay, January S2, I'JUu (^V. Foster). 



One <f . 



2. Eui'yglottis albostigmata basalis sulispcc. nov. 



Eiu-i/gloitis albostigmala Rothschild & Joid., Xui: Zuul. ix. Supijl. p. I'S (IWKt) (partim ; 

 S.E. Peru). 



? . We received this form when our revision of the Sphingidae was in press. 

 On comparing again typical ? ? of albostigmata we now find that the Peru 



