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Wings, upperside, Fore wing produced at apex into a prominent lobe, which is 



about 5 mm. long, measured from tip of Sf'° ; greenish clay-colonr (more green when 

 alive ?) ; two faint straight oblique parallel lines, greyish, the second a little beyond 

 base of M'^ the first about (i mm. distant from it, these lines being the proximal 

 borders of indistinct clay bands, a pale band across cross-veins, from costal to inner 

 margin, widest between R' and W, including a small transparent stigma bordered 

 with brown ; an oblique brown line from apex to R', ending here iu an indistinct 

 brown patch ; a small brown subapical patch at l)end of costal margin preceded 



by a cloud of glossy grey scales ; a small rosy red basal spot at inner margin. ■ 



Hindwing rosy red, costal margin creamy white, distal margin tawny olive, this 

 marginal band gradually widening behind and becoming paler, extending along 

 abdominal margin to base, the hairs at base being creamy white. 



Underside greenish buff, paler than upperside, creamy towards base. 



Forewing rosy red centrally from base beyond apex of cell ; a brown line from 



apex obliquely beyond R-. Hindwing with large rosy red patch along abdominal 



margin ; two greenish yellow lines across disc, at R' the distances between these 

 lines, cell and distal margin, about equal ; R^ from centre of cell. 



Vaginal ridge raised into a triangular tooth on each side, the right tooth being 

 longer and broader than the left one. 



Length of forewing : 67 mm. 



Ilah. Sierra Leone (Major Bainbridge). 



One ?. 



We name this fine species in honour of the collector, from whom we have 

 received several interesting captures. 



7. Pholus vitis fuscatus subspec. nov. 



Phnlns vilh vith, Rothschild & Jord., Noe. Zunl ix. p. 494. n. 418. a. (1903) (partim ; St. Vincent ; 

 Grenad.a). 



Having received a series of fresh specimens, we now propose a separate name 

 for the form from the Lesser Antilles. 



?. Wings, upperside : pale markings of forewing more or less washed with 

 brown, therefore less contrasting with the greenish olive-brown markings than in 

 nearly all Continental specimens ; subbasal band not distinctly edged with white ; 

 brown line situated within oblique grey discal band less distinct ; marginal band 

 broadm-, not edged with white. 



HkI). Santa Lucia (S. Branch), ti/pe ; Grenada ; St. Vincent. 



A series of ? ? . 



8. Deilephila placida salomonis subspec. nov. 



DeiUphila placida placida Rothschild & Jord., Noi\ Zool. ix. Suppl. p. 512. n.430. a. (190.3) (partim; 

 Guadalcanar and Florida). 



c?. Blore uniformly olive, the markings less prominent ; subbasal patch of 

 forewing, upperside, hardly deeper olive than the ground-colour ; median band less 

 oblique than in pi. placida ; its proximal edge less curved. 



Hab. Solomon Islands; N. Georgia, tijpe ; Choiseul; Guadalcanar; Florida, 



4 <Jcf, collected by A. S. Meek, 



