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inwards ; cilia ochreous-whitish, with a basal series of small black spots. Hindwings 

 with termen slightly waved ; pale whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with black ; a small 

 narrow-oval discal spot outlined with blackish ; second line faint, ochreous, marked 

 with black dots, curved ; subterminal indicated by a series of blackish dots ; cilia as in 

 forewings. (Plate V. fig. 6.) 



I specimen, Olaa, Hawaii, in November. 



SPHINGIDAE. 



Deilephila Ochs. 



(i) Deilephila (?) smaragditis, sp. nov. 



<?. 94 mm. Head yellowish-green, face and palpi dark purplish-fuscous. Thorax 

 green, collar and posterior hairs dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen long, tolerably 

 cylindrical, green (partly discoloured), on sides and beneath purplish-ochreous. 

 Forewings rather deep glossy bluish-green ; lines forming very indistinct cloudy darker 

 yellower-green shades, first absent, median straight, second slightly curved, followed 

 below middle by a small spot of black irroration, subterminal near and parallel to 

 second ; a terminal streak of dark purplish-fuscous irroration dilated towards apex 

 (damaged). Hindwings rather dark purplish-fuscous ; a faintly indicated darker post- 

 median shade ; cilia yellow-whitish, base dark fuscous. Wings beneath purplish- 

 ochreous, (Plate V. fig. 7.) 



I specimen, Makaweli, Kauai, at 2000 feet, " taken some years ago by ladies of the 

 Gay family." This example has lost one antenna and the apical half of the other, and 

 also both posterior legs ; it is therefore impossible to determine properly its generic 

 position, and it is only provisionally included in Deilephila ; it is superficially very 

 distinct from anything known to me. It is a remarkable and beautiful species; and its 

 fair captors might earn additional praise by discovering further specimens, and enabling 

 its affinities to be accurately ascertained. 



(2) Deilephila pyrias, sp. nov. 



$ ?. 67 — 74 mm. Head and thorax very dark brown, a lateral stripe on head, 

 and margins of patagia whitish or yellowish. Antennae dark fuscous, apex whitish. 

 Abdomen orange, on sides and beneath suffused with crimson, with a broad dark brown 

 dorsal stripe, and broad dark fuscous or black bands on margin of segments above. 

 Forewings dark brown, often more or less partially mixed with whitish scales and hairs ; 

 lines cloudy, dark fuscous, first curved, indistinct, preceded by triangular dark fuscous 



