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ADDITIONAL NOTES ON SPHiyGIDAE. 



h\ THb; HON. WALTER KOTHSCHILD. 



SINCE the appearance of my article on Sj>J>inyidue in tlie April number of 

 this journal, 1 have received a lot of adilitional material, and some new 

 Rjjecies ; but before going into ])articulars I must, in justice to myst^lf, make a 

 few remarks on the Uphiiujidae in Colonel Swinhoe's article on the Lepidoptera 

 of the Khasia Hills in the A]iril number of the Transacttonx of the Entomological 

 Society. 



If Colonel Swiuhoe had only taken the slight trouble of asking to see my 

 type-specimens he would certainly not have committed the errors he has done. 



On page 148, no. 19, under Choerocampa telata, Colonel Swiuhoe places 

 my Metopsilus alhomarginafiis, while in the same note he asserts that in his 

 opinion Fergesa aurifera Butl. is distinct from P. celata. Now my alhomarginatiis, 

 though in my opinion (backed by a good series) (juite distinct, is certainly much 

 nearer to P. aurifera than to F. telata. 



On ])age 149, no. 21, Colonel Swinhoe has jilaced my Panacra hamiltoni as 

 a synou}'m of Choerocampa {Angongx) htmris, and says : " The ty{)e-specimeu is 

 much faded, but I have a fine series, and am certain of my identification." 



If Colonel Swinhoe had adopted Mr. Kirhy's nomenclature instead of Mr. 

 Hampson's retrograde and puzzling one (he united so many genera), he would have 

 at once recognised his great blunder. C busiris, of which I have at different times 

 received over a hundred specimens, belongs to the genus Angongx, while my 

 hamiltoni belongs to the geuus Panacra, and is nearest to P. tagans Butl. 



On the same page, under uos. 25, 26, 2", the Colonel still persists in separating 

 Theretra lineosa, T. major, and T. minor ; but I have had from the Khasia Hills 

 hundreds of specimens, and among them every intermediate form between these 

 so-called species. 



On page 151, no. :58, Colonel Swiuhoe says of my Meyanoton khasianuni: 

 " Must be closely allied to, if distinct from, the preceding {M. discistriga Walk.), 

 which is a very variable species." 



This shows tiiat the Colonel luis not read my description carefully, for I 

 expressly compare my sjjecies to the American Daremmi hageni, and certainly 

 the only Indian si)ecies at all near it is inexacta Walk. 



In the large collection of Lejiidojitera made at Darjeeling by Surgeon-Colonel 

 Pilcher, there is a specimen of the male of the moth I described from a fenuilc 

 as Cypa mirahilis. This 7nttle not only fully confirms the distinctness of the 

 species, but also shows that I was quite right in placing it in tlie genus Cypa. 



Among a large number of Lejjidojitera collected on the river Cachyaco by 

 Messrs. Ma.xwell Stuart, a river which joins the Amazon west of Iquitos in Peru, 

 there were 187 specimens of Sphingidae, comprising 35 species, of which two were 

 new to science. The following is the list of si)ecies, and the descriptions of the two 

 new species : — 



