C 5.59 ) 



to apex of wiug ; mudiau urea jjroximally of obli(|ue baud ta\vii3'-olivL', traversed 

 by the posterior portions of the discal lines ; autemediau pair of Hues generally 

 merged together to a blackish baud, which is curved costad in front, constricted 

 in cell ; betweeu it and base there are a thin line, a broad patch and a small 

 basal spot, separated by tawny-olive scaling, but oi'ten merged together. Stigma 

 represented by a minute dot (there occurs probably a form with distinct stigma, 

 as in most species of yep/tele). 



Hab. West and East Africa. 



In the Tring Museum c?cJ, ;i ? ? from: Ugrugu, Niger; Yakusn, C!ougo, 

 vii. 10(11.) (K. Smith) ; Bopoto, ('ongo (K. Smith) ; Dekigoa Bay ; Dar-es-Salaam. 



4N0. Nephele discifera. 



*iVfy</(f'/«'y;(«e«f! (Cr.), forma rfiiYv/sra Karsch, Eiit. Nac/ir. xvii. p. 208 (1891) (Cameroons : — Mus. 



Berlin). 

 Xfj/kele j/riiius var. a. ycj)!/. [>., forma disci/era, Kirby, Cut. Ltp. llii. i. p. (J80. sub n. 11 (1892) 



(Cameroons). 

 *Nq)hcle uttnijinai-uhita Rothschild, Xi.iv. Zudi,. i. p. 88 (1894) (Upp. Congo ;— Mus. Tring) ; id., 



Ic.u.i. 9. f. 8(?) (1895). 



c??. Upper&ide very uniform in colour. No distinct lines on forewing; a 

 minute stigma; a rounded orange-tawny patch at hinder margin just before 

 middle ; distal marginal area grey, limited by the irregular line which runs 

 from apex to binder angle ; this line very indistinct in tliis species. 



Uiidersifle of body tawny olive (Ridgway, Xoinencl. Colours t. 3. n. 17), 

 palpus below with grey and olive scales, whitish at the sides. 



Jlab. West Africa : ( Jameroons ; Congo. 



In the Tring Museum 1 c?, 1 ? from the Upper Congo, the c^ caught at 

 Yakusu, Stanley Falls, in July 19U0 (Kev. Kenred Smith). 



481. Nephele peneus. 



Sphinx jjcni/us Cramer, Piiji. Exul. i. p. 139. t. 88. f. u (1776) (Sierra Leone) ; Goeze, ICiit. lici/lr. 



iii. 2. p. 220. n. ,58(1780). 

 Sjihhi.f diihjina Fabricius, Sper. Iiix. ii. p. 148. n. 41 (1781) (partim) ; id., Moni. In-i. ii. p. 96. n. 45 



(1787) (partim) : Gmel., S,,.-<f. Xal. i. 5. p. 2381. n. 79 (1790) (partim) ; Fabr., Ent. SystAii. 1. 



p. ,371. n. 48 (1793) (partim). 

 Sphinx peiuceus (!), Fabricius, l.l.c.r. (sub syn.). 

 Xcphele didi/ma, Hiibner, Vers. hek. Schm. p. 133. n. 1433 (1822) (partim). 



S S . Black lateral patches of abdomen large, that of third segment as distinct 

 as the patch of the fourth ; palpus with a large second segment, underside scarcely 



paler than breast. Combs of spurs large. Forewing less elongate than in the 



allied species, distal margin strongly convex; a blackish shadowy band from middle 

 of costal margin to hinder angle, posteriorly a little more proximal than in hi partita; 

 area outside this band traversed in middle by the third discal line, which is dentate 

 and is followed by a fourth line, also dentate, corresponding to the postdisco- 

 sul)marginal line of other species, the halfmoons between these two lines brown or 

 olive tawny, the one between SC'' and Ii' large; three white dots (PI. LXIV. 

 f. (■). 7), namely 1 -f- :5, :J, and 4 ; often 1 + 3 + 4, and 2 separate ; seldom 

 ~ + 1 + 3 + 4 ; or 2 -f 1 + 13, and 4 separate ; 1 and 3 apparently never 

 sei)arate; sometimes all three spots obscured, having assumed the ground-colour 

 of the wing, seldom all absent. Discal lines of underside of forewing curved 

 twice, S-shaped. 



