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A NEW FOEM OF SWIFT FROM MADAaASCAR. 

 Bv KRN.ST IIARTKKT. 



THE Rev. James Wills sent to the Tring .Museum, together with some other birds 

 (among them a specimen of the rather rare Cttprimulgus enurmtits Gray), 

 a skin of a swift which I cannot refer to any known form. It is a form of Micropus 

 melba, or rather of its subspecies M. inelha africunus, but very much smaller. 

 It is of the usual dark sooty blackish brown above, on the under wing-coverts, anal 

 region and under tail-coverts, across the jugulum, and along the sides of the body and 

 sides of head ; forehead a little paler ; chin, throat, and middle of breast and abdomen 

 white ; flank-feathers with whil ish edges. The wlnte on breast and abdomen much 

 more restricted than in M. inelha, and also the white on the throat not reaching so 

 far towards the sides as in M. melhct. Total length about 175 mm. ; wing 190 ; tail 70 ; 

 tarsus 14; culmen 10. 

 I name this form 



Micropus willsi .sp. no\-., 



in honour of its discoverer. The single specimen was olitained at East Imeriua, 

 in Eastern Madagascar, on February 1st, 1S9(>. Its se.K has not been ascertained. 



SOME UNDESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA. 

 By the IIOX. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



PAPILKJNIDAE. 

 1. Papilio cauopus sumbanus Eothsch. subsp. nov. 



Comes close to ulorensis Rothsch., Nov. ZoOL. I. p. t)86 (1894), and II. t. \TI1. 

 f. 4 (189.5), but differs as follows :— 



Paler brown. Forewing with three creamy white (<?) or white (?) patches in 

 apical region between upper discoidal and third subcostal veins ; the two first patches 

 have a length of about 6 mm., while the third is much smaller ; at anal angle two or 

 three small spots ; no spots between median nervules. 



Hindwing with the discal band very narrow, the spots composing it being scarcely 

 more than 1 mm. broad, or almost entirely obliterated; .submarginal spots absent or 

 showing through from the underside. 



Underside paler than upperside. Forewing as above. Hindwing with suli- 

 marginal lunules distinct ; discal macular band as above, or faintly In-oader. 



Hab. Patadala, Sumba ; 1 cf, 1 ?. 



SPHINGIDAE. 

 2. Ceplianodes unicolor Rothsch. sp. nov. 



Similar to H. shnplex Rothsch., but differs in the uniform apple-green of the 

 head, thorax, and abdomen. Anal tuft apple-green, witli orange and black margins. 



Underside : palpi white ; thorax and legs buffy yellow ; abdomen brownish buff; 

 anal tuft black and orange. 



Ihd). Coonioobiolaroo, near Duarinsja, N. (^'ueenslaiid (I'aniard /('.'/.): 2 (?. 1 ?. 



