(458 ) 



witli two lines corresponding to those on forewiiig, tlie second ending between the 

 tips (if veins 8M- :ind SMI 



Length of furcwing : :!;i luni. ; lireadth : 14 mm. 



One ? from " Abyssinia " (received from Messrs. Standinger & Bang-Haas). 



r>. Xylophanes acrus sp. no v. 



J?. Allied to A'. Kiiiiidix StoU (1T82). Upperside of head and thorax dark 

 bistre, a lateral stripe from tip of palpus to tip of tegnla creamy biiHf with a pinkish 

 tone, the stri|ie partly edged with a jialer line, another strijie of the same colour in 

 the centre from occiput to metanotum, not sharply separated from abdomen, the 

 njipcrside of the latter being only a little darker than this stripe and bearing two 

 widely separated rows of black dots ; on sides of first and secon<l abdominal segments 

 a large olivaceous black jiatcli. Underside bull-pink, ]ial()i bistre-colour. 



Wings, u/i^rrside : {brewing with the apex strongly produced and pointed ; the 

 outer margin iiuiirved below a|)ex and then almost straight to hiinl angle in c? and 

 convex in ? ; as in (iinadiH, a heavy greenish black central line runs from apex to 

 hind margin, reaching the latter proximally to basal third ; on the proximal side the 

 line bordered with olivaceous creamy buif ; the whole costal area washed with olive- 

 green, the base of the costal margin remaining somewhat cream-bnif ; two dark 

 curved lines proximally to M- from costal margin across cell, not reaching hind 

 margin; a small black stigma and beyond it an ill-defined blackish clnuil ; parallel 

 with the central line and situated at the proximal side of it three thin lines, which 

 are more or less accentuated ujion the veins and curved costad at S(!'; along outer 

 side of central lino the wing so strongly shaded with dark greenish olive that the 

 line is not sharply defined on this side, except at tip of wing ; a row of hlackish 

 submarginal dots connected with each other by traces of a crenate line, the teeth of 

 which are represented by these vein-dots ; beyond the dots the wing be<'omes slightly 



paler ; fringe uniformly dark greenish olive. Hiadwing black, a cream-bnf!, 



slightly pinkish 1,'aud on disc, the black colour extending along veins M- and SM- 

 across the band and at W and M' as a tooth into the baud ; margin pale greenish 

 olive, separated from the discal band by a black band which extends along the veins 

 to edge of wing; fringe uniformly creamy buff with a pink tint, a dark dot only 

 at tip of veins M- and SSP. 



riiili'i-iiide dirty creamy buff and ferruginous in rf, more evenly ferruginous in 

 ? ; forewing from base to first discal line black, the cell, however, remaining pale 

 clayish ; both wings with two lines on disc, the first somewhat S-shaped, reaching 

 costal margin of forewing shortly outside subcostal fork, the second line accentuated 

 liy vein-dots. 



Outer spur of midtibia a little shorter than inner sj)ur. 



Length of forewing : S 49 mm. ; ? 55 mm. 



One pair from Chiriqui, Panama (received from Messrs. Standinger & 

 Bang-Haas). 



C. Xylophanes amadis amadis Stoll (1782). 



X. n. a., R. & J., Revision nf Sphimjida- p. li!».'). n. G47. a {VMYi) (partim ; Surinam). 



We liave now received a specimen (a ?) from French tfuiana (collected by 

 E. Lo Moult) which agrees better with StoH's figure than do the Venezuelan 

 specimens which are considered to be amadis amadis in our Rcrision. This is the 



