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SOME NEW SPECIES OF HETEBOCEBA. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



(PI. VII.) 



SPHINGIDAE. 



L Sphinx arthuri sj). nov. (PI. VII. fig. 1). 



cJ. Forewinga: pale grey, strongly sprinkled with orange and lilaek scales, 

 giving a decided olive tinge. An indistinct stigma on the discoccllulars, from 

 which a faint dark streak rnns into the cell. Across the disc of the wing runs an 

 indistinct zigzag transverse line, from which horizontally proceed two dark lines 

 abont 5 mm. long between veins 2 and 4. 



Hindwimji : black, crossed by two bauds of pearl-grey 3 mm. wide; onter 

 margin snffnsed Nvith grey scales ; fringe creamy white. 



Urulersidp, : as above, bnt more imiform grey. 



Head and thorax like npperside of forewing ; abdomen dark grey, with five 

 lilack and five light grey lateral spots placed alternately; underside of :i,l)doiiic'n 

 whitish grey, with a median row of small black dashes. 



Expanse : forewing, length 52 mm. ; width I'-t mm. 

 „ hindwing, „ 32 „ 



Hull. La Paz, Bolivia (canght at electric light) ; 1 c?. 



Named after Mr. Arthur Maxwell Stuart. 



2. Daphnis dohertyi sp. nov. 



i . Closely allied to D. hijpothous and magnifica, but easily distinguished from 

 botii by the very differently shaped discal dark green area. The basal edge of this 

 patch is straight; the outer edge' is deeply sinuate between veins 4 and 5, this 

 sinus filled up with white ; in front of the sinns the patch measures only 7 mm. in 

 width, and between veins 2 and 3 only 2 mm. The pale line situated between the 

 dark green patch and the apex of the wing is very strongly curved between veins 4 

 and 5, the line reaching vein 4 at a distance of 7 mm. from the outer margin ; the 

 space between this line and the discal patch is partly scaled white, especially close 

 to the dark green patch. The cellule between veins 3 and 4 is, in /i>/pot/ious and 

 DKKinifica, olive-green or dark green, except a trapezoidal submarginal sjiot of fawn- 

 colonr; \\\ <loherti)i^\m latter spot is much enlarged and almost ecru-drab. Hind- 

 wing more reddish than in the allied species. 



Unclcrsidi' : as in In/potlious, the three discal brown lines of the forewing more 

 ]iromini'nt ; hindwing with two white dots at costal margin. 



Ilab. Kapanr, Dutch S.W. New Guinea, December I8'.)(j (W. Dohcrty) ; 1 S. 



COSSIDAE. 



3. Xyleutes donovani sp. nov. (PI. VII. fig. 2). 



c?. I'pperside: forewing witiiout the yellowish tint which is jiresent in 

 .V. litanitKS Don., the nearest ally of donoumi ; costal margin with about twenty 



