1865.] 71 



I have alluded elsewhere to what I suppose is an error on the 

 part of Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer, in referring his specimens, which I have 

 every reason to believe are specifically identical with mine, as corre- 

 sponding with Boisduval's figure, Sp. Gren. PI. 15, fig. 6. 



Sphinx afflicta, nov. sp. 



Yellowish-olivaceous-cinereous, when fresh perhaps with a greenish 

 tinge, which has however quite disappeared, if it existed, from the 

 single specimen I describe. All the transverse lines darker, very nar- 

 row, distinct and continued. At extreme base some white scales. Four 

 lines from the costa before the discal spot, very irregularly dentate and 

 undulate, the third, at the sub-median nervure, joining the fourth. 

 Discal spot white, surrounded with a dark encircling line, small, sub- 

 reniform in shape. Beyond the median space, three propinquitous, 

 oblique, trembled lines, run from costa to internal margin, slightly pro- 

 jected below the costa, the interspace between the second and third 

 paler. These lines are interrupted with a few black scales inferiorly. 

 A subterminal, widely and regularly undulate line, which is sub-obsolete 

 to costa, before which it is joined by the apical streak, the latter lined 

 above by a few white scales. An obsolete terminal line, showing a few 

 white scales. Fringes dark, narrowly interrupted with white between 

 the nervules. 



Posterior wings pale blackish at base, beyond which they are whitish. 

 A very intense, distinct, black demi-band, crosses the middle of the 

 wing, furcate, sending ofi" at the center, inwardly, a black dash, which 

 is not continued to costa. Beyond the median black band, is a pale 

 interspace, succeeded by a narrow, black, somewhat undulate, subtermi- 

 nal band, widening between the nervules to costa. Terminal space 

 shaded with yellow-olivaceous scales. Fringes white, narrowly inter- 

 rupted with olivaceous at the extremity of the veins. 



Under surface olivaceous brownish. Anterior pair crossed by three, 

 distinct, undulate, brownish lines; beyond, a subterminal brownish 

 shade band, furcate at costa ; disc covered with brownish scales, sprinkled 

 with olivaceous. Posterior wings whitish at anal angle and along inter- 

 nal margin, crossed medially by two distinct black bands, of which the 

 outer, the least distinct, joining the inner on medio-posterior nervule, 

 dentate on the nervules. A subterminal, broad, brownish, shade band. 

 Head, sufficiently prominent, less so than in the foregoing species; 

 eyes, moderately salient; antennae, long and stout. The squammation 

 of the head and thoracic region is unicolorous with anterior wings. 

 without markings; on the metathorax laterally, a blackish sub-tuft. 



