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light band of buff begins midway between the apex and the angle, becom- 

 ing more pronounced as it reaches the angle. This band separates the 

 margin and the row of white spots. Inferior wings similar to the male. 

 The brown spots in the centre of each nervule larger and marked with a 

 small white spot. Under sides very similar to the upper surface, but 

 lighter and the white spots better defined. Abdomen and thorax dark 

 brown. Expanse, male, 2^5 in.; female, 2^ in. 



Hab. Santo, New Hebrides. 



A New Variety of Tegrodera (Coleoptera). 



BY HENRY SKINNER. 



T. aloga n. var. Head red, antennae and collar black. Thorax red. 

 Elytra bright yellow, reticulate ; black between the reticulations, with 

 apices black. There is a transverse piceous fascia, constricted in the 

 middle of each elytron : elytral sutures black. Abdomen and legs black. 

 The species varies in length from 14 to 26 mm. 



Described from sixteen specimens taken on the banks of the 

 Gila River, near Florence Arizona, May 4, 1903, by C. R. 

 Biederman. There is no variation in the specimens, except in 

 size. It differs from hitecinda Horn in being more coriaceous, 

 the reticulations being much coarser and showing the black 

 background more conspicuously. The transverse elytral 

 fascia in latecincta is wider and not constricted in the middle. 

 It may be distinguished at once from erosa by the distinct black 

 elytral suture. Dr. Horn considered latecincta a race of erosa 

 and aloga is probably also a race of erosa. 



A New Variety of Sphinx. 



BY HENRY SKINNER. 



Sphinx luscitiosa Clem. var. Una n. var. This variety lacks entirely 

 the buff color of the inner area of the inferior wings so conspicuous in the 

 species. It is much darker on all four wings, and in markings is practi- 

 cally identical with dark examples of Sphin.v ercuiitus, from which it 

 differs in the smaller discal spot. 



Described from a 9 specimen received from Mr. Chas. F. 

 Timm, of Brooklyn, New York, who raised it from larvae 

 which disclosed the normal form except in one additional 

 specimen. 



