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rounded, external margin entire, rounded and slightly produced at 

 the extremity of the second internal vein, thence straight to internal 

 angle, inner margin straight, general coloration green to brown. 



Note. — In the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" De- 

 cember, 1882, p. 434, No. 6, Mr. A. G. Butler described a new hawk 

 moth from Aburi, on the Gold Coast, to which he gave the specific 

 name Anomala, and referred it to the genus Nephele Hiib. = Zoailla 

 Walker. In doing so Mr. Butler remarks : " This singular little 

 species has the general coloration rather of a Dlodosida than of a 

 Nephele, but in structure it appears to agree with the latter genus." 

 I have lately received two species of hawk moths which are plainly 

 congeneric with Ano)nala Butl, and constitute a natural group, to 

 which I have given the name Antinephele. They are distinguished 

 from Nephele by the relatively shorter length of the abdomen and 

 its flattened ventral aspect, the more rounded apex of the primaries, 

 the crest between the antennae, the generally smaller size and the 

 coloration which is very different in its general style from that of 

 any of the other species referred to Nephele by authors. 



I locate the genus provisionally in the subfamily of the Sphinginse. 

 My conviction is that it belongs more ])roperly after Lophura, among 

 the Macvoglomnije ; or, to be still more exact, that it belongs to a 

 group of genera, of which Lophura is one, which should be raised 

 into a subfamily and placed between the Macroglossime and Chtero- 

 campince. 



32. A. Aiioiiiala Butler. I»Iate III, fig. 1. Butler, Aun. and Mag 

 Nat. Hist. Dec, 1882. No. 6. 



Two males and one female. 

 Benita (Reutlinger). 



33. A. Maeulifera n. sp. Plate III, fig. 2. 



IJPPKRSIDE.— Palpi brown. Head brown, marked with a median line of green 

 and a narrow white line over the eyes. Thorax green, with the shoulders and 

 patagi're rich maroon, ornamented with a small tuft of white scales on anterior 

 edge. Abdomen yellow ochraceous, anteriorly shaded with green as on the 

 thorax. Upon the top of the first segment is a triangular patch of dark brown 

 scales. Anterior icings: at the base a broad patch of brown of same color as the 

 patagife. reaching not quite to the inner margin, bounded on its external margin 

 by a narrow line of white. The disciil area is brown, shaded with green and 

 crossed by a number of transverse lines. A very small and exceedingly obscure 

 grayish white discal dot is situated at the end of the cell : a broad brown shade 

 arising about the middle of the costa sweeps diagonally across the wing as far as 

 vein 4 and then turns ai>ruptly upward and finishes at the apex. Tlie triangular 



