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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOP- 

 TEBA, WITH EEMAKKS ON SOME PliEVIOUSLY 

 DESCRIBED FORMS. 



15v TlIK IIU\. WAl.TKl; ItOTHSClllLD. 

 (Plates XIII., XIV., ami XV.) 



1. Auaeomorpha spleudida KotliscJi., Nov. Zuol. 180-i. ]>. CST. 

 (PL XIII. r. I.) 



Ill ueuratiuu this romarkalilc iiusect agrei's witli I'reiioua Boisd. ; (.lie fir.s( 

 subcostal branclies are free, as in I'rcpona, uot united to the costal uervure, as in 

 Anaea Hb. 



V!. Macroglossa kiushiuensis Rothsdi., I.e. li^04. ji. (i'i. 

 (PI. XIII. f. 2.) 



This is probably only a subspecies of .)/. -fiKfi Butl. from Yukohatna. 



3. Theretra staudingeri KotLsch., I.e. ls<)4. p. TO. 



(PI. Xlll. f. 10.) 



Mr. li. Druce, 7j.Vf)/. Centr. Ami-r., ILt. II., 1806, ]>. ;iii,3, unites this and my 

 Th. ■•stuarti to Th. doc'di^ Butl. I have ]>crsonally uot enough material to decide 

 the question for myself. 



4. Panacra lifuensis Rotlisch., Lc. P"<'.)4. p. Tu. 

 (PI. XIV. f. VI.) 



."). Panacra griseola Hothsch., I.e. IsU4. p. H). 

 (PI. XIV. f. 13). 



Although I have received a large series of both forms {lifm'iuis and (jrlscohi) 

 from Lifu, Loyalty Islands, containing a good many specimens which agree exactly 

 with neither tyjie figured, I cannot unite the two forms, as I have no complete chain 

 of intermediates. 



• 1. Xyleutes affinis sj). nov. 



This species is closely allied to ,V. iiiiKjnifwa Kothscli., Init the large series of 

 both in magnificent condition whicli are in the Tring Museum prove the dillereiices 

 to be very constant. 



i. Has the hiudwing much darker brown-red, tlie antennae black instead of 

 red, has a marginal row of browu spots on forewing at the cuds of the uervurcs, and 

 the submarginal row of blotches is niori' distinct. 



?. Ground-colour of forewing more yellowish grey, owing to the presence of 

 a greater number of reddish scales, a row of marginal red-browu square sjiots at the 



