PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol.89 Washington: 1940 No. 3102 



NEW SPECIES OF HETEROCEROUS MOTHS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



By William Schaus 



In working- over the lepidopteran collections in the United States 

 National Museum I have found a number of species of heteroccrous 

 moths that appear to be new to science and heretofore unnamed. 

 Most of the specimens from southern Brazil, as well as the Sphin- 

 gidae, were generously donated by Frank Johnson. Part of the 

 Colombian material is from the Dognin collection, which is now a 

 part of the national collection. 



Family SPHINGIDAE 



Genus PROTOPARCE Burmeister 



PROTOPARCE MARICINA, new species 



Male. — Palpus and thorax above pale drab; palpus underneath 

 white divided by a black line; thorax and abdomen below white, the 

 thorax with faint dark lines, the abdomen with medial black points 

 on segments; abdomen above pale smoke gray; subdorsal triangular 

 spots, the three terminal segments with fuie black lines. Fore wing 

 pale drab-gray, with some darker suffusions and some fine darker 

 lines; a small white spot edged with fine black lines; antemedial line 

 fine, double, dark wavy andinbent to inner margin; medial line 

 double, outbent, with dark lines and filled in with dark scaling, not 

 extending below vein 3 and with a short black streak on veins 3 and 4 ; 

 a postmedial curved series of white points, sinuous below vein 3, 

 each point edged with dark gray; apical space broadly pale smoke 



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