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45. Protoparce leucoptera spec. nov. (PI. XI. f. 2, ?). 



?. Antenna very slender, faintly incrassate distally, scaling white. Body 

 whitish grey, mixed with brown, sides of palpus near eye, a dorso-lateral jiateh on 

 metanotum and first alidorainal segment, bases of apical edges of abdominal tergites 

 on sides, brown ; white dorso-lateral dots of abdomen widely sejjarate (not distinct 

 in our uniipie individnal) ; five large yellow side-patches to abdomen, gradnally 

 decreasing in diameter, a trace of a sixtli spot on seventh segment ; jiosterior 

 ventral angles of tergites white ; abdomen below with traces of brown mesial spots. 

 First segment of protarsns about as long as segments 2 and 3 together, with a few 

 .short spines at base, and three long ones, situated at base, in middle and at end 

 respectively. No pulvillns. 



Wings, iipjierside. Forewing : greyish white ; a white stigma ; submarginal 



area shaded with brown ; a brown postdiscal undnlate line, an oblique black apical 

 line, and rather indistinct brown submargiual halfmoons ; fringe not well preserved, 



apparently the white spots smaller than the brown portions. Hindwing : grey, 



shaded with brown, marginal area brown, a blackish, irregular, postdiscal band ; 

 between it and base four indistinct bands or lines, the most proximal broadest, 

 situated between base and IP. 



Underside drab grey. Forewing : disc slightly paler ; grey marginal spots ; 



a thin oblicpae brown apical line ; scaling in front of this line grey ; scattered grey 



scaling also along outer margin. Hindwiag : jialer grey, especially a broad 



ill-defined discal band-like space and abdominal area; distal marginal an-a lirown, 

 esjieciaily in submarginal area ; a faint brown band between this border and cell. 



Length of forewing : ? , 45 mm. 



Hab. Chatham 1., Galapagos Is., 14. iii. '01 (Beck). 



1 ? in the Tring Museum.* 



Allied to petuniae and sexta. 



The dorsum of the thorax is mutilated in the specimen. 



4(1 Protoparce pellenia. 



*Cliaeroi;(uiii>a jiclli-ii/n Horrich-Sch., Aii.-il. Sdim. p. fii). f. UK', (18.54) {" Aui. aiiuiti." ; - ooll. 



Staudinger). 

 Sjihiiix pellenia, Walker, Li.4 Lep. Ins. B. .1/. xxxi. p. 3B (18G4) ; Boisd., ^pir. Grii. I.rp. Hit. i. 



p. 80. n. 13 (1875) (Colombia). 

 *Sphinx capsici Boisduval, I.e. n. 14. (1875) (Bogota, (J ; — coll. Charles Oberthue). 

 Protoparce ptlleniii, Butler, Tnnif:. Zool. Hoc. Land. ix. p. 008. u. 10 (1877) ('' S. Amer."). 

 Phleijclhnnttm cnpaici, Kirby, Cut. Lep. Het. i. p. 080. n. 27 (1811:^) (Bogota). 

 Phlnjiihuntius pellenia, id., I c. n. 28 (18;)2) (" S. Amer."). 



*Psiiiilosiihmx morel'm, Druce, Ann. Ma;). N. H. (0). xiii. p. 109 (ls;)4) (Orizaba, $ ;--coll. Dnice.) 

 ProlojMirce capsici, Sobaus, Ent. News vi. p. 143 (189.5) ( = mor(lia) ; Druce, B/ul. Ccntr. Amer., 



Lep. Het. Suppl. p. 31.5. n. 3 (b). t. 67. f. 4 ( ? ) (1896) (Orizaba ; Jalapa ; Bogota). 

 <S ?. The discal black sericeous patches of the forewing above heavy, forming 

 a Ijand which is strongly angled near R'' ; the obIi(pie black apical line as well as 

 the posterior portion of the black postdiscal line very heavy, the sul)uiargiiial 

 zigzag line creamy buff, not white ; creamy butf spots of fringe variable in size, 

 sometimes scarcely one-third as wide as the brownish black fringe-sjjots ; inter- 

 spaces IV — (SM') between discal band and postdiscal line more or less dark russet. 

 Abdomen below shaded with brown scales, especially in c?. Antenna almost as stout 

 as in se.ita. First segment of fore-tarsus externally with 4 or 5 moderately long 

 spines and numerous small ones above them. So |iulvillus. 



* [See Appendix. 



