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edges of tlie tergites with tufts of long scales, which are gradually filiated distally ; 

 under surface of abdomen white. 



S and early stages not known. 



fJab. Peru : Chuchnras. 



Ti///e in coll. Staudinger ; another sjieciuien from the same place in the 

 Tring Museum. 



(>:!>. Xylophanes rhodina sjiec. nov. (PI. II. f. 1:5, rj). 



d . Body (i6ofe olive-waliuit-browu ; a line above eye 2)ale, mesothoraeic tegula 

 with a thin pale lateral border and a wahmt-brown mesial band ; abdomen with 

 dispersed long pinkish grey scales, a triple dorsal line, the mesial one darker 

 brown, accentuated at the bases of the segments ; underside pale buff, cinnamon- 

 rufous at sides, abdomen near the stigmata with tufts of spatulate creamy scales ; 

 spines of tergites nniseriate. (Middle legs wanting.) 



AViugs, iippersitle, greenish olive, hiudwiug somewhat greyish. Forewing : 



stigma black, a dark cloud distally of it, basal area shaded with pinkish grey scales, 

 the same scales between the discal lines near hinder margin ; first discal line heavy, 

 straight up to SI'', where it is vestigial, dilated at costal margin into a spot, line 

 ■J dentate, 3 vestigial, also dentate, 4 more straight, accentuated by vein-dots, 

 marked at costal margin by a spot, 5 from apex, vestigial, except at apex, lines 

 2 to 5 turned basad from SM" to inner margin, accentuated by a dash upon M-, (SM^), 

 and SM-, line o dilated into a patch at inner margin, 6 and 7 vestigial and parallel 



to distal margin. Hind wing : a vestigial brown discal line in an ill-defined, not 



very distinct, pinkish band. 



I'liderside ferrngino-ns red, basal half of both wings brown, disto-marginal band 



greyish or huffish brown. Forewing ; three discal lines curving costad in front, 



the first continuous, the stcoud indistinct, marked only in front, the third less 

 oblique behind than the first, indicated by vein-dots, marginal baud dentate between 

 veins, projecting most between R' and W' ; costal edge ochreous distally ; hinder 



angle a little projecting. Hindwing : marginal band dentate between veins, 



preceded by a row of vein-dots, discal line present or not ; abdominal fold buff. 



<S. Tenth abdominal tergite narrow, ajiex rounded, feebly truncate-sinuate ; 

 sternite evenly rounded at end. Process of harpe broader than ordinarily in this 

 genus, obtuse, compressed, thin, twisted (PI. LIII. f. 6). Penis-sheath with 

 a fin-shaped, dentate, recurved process as in falco, and a short conical process 

 pointing to the right side (PI. LVII. f. 12). 



? and early stages not known. 



Huh. Ohiri(pn. 



Two i S in the Tring Museum ; not seen in other collections. 



639. Xylophanes godmani. 



*Cliucrocuiujja ijodiiiani Druce, Knl. Mu. M'"j. xi.\. p. Hi (188:^) (Chiriqui ; — Mus. Brit.) ; iJ., in 

 Biul. Ceiiti: Amcr., Lep. Met. ii. t. 'A. f. ■> (18S:i) ; id., I.e. Siippl. p. 306. n. 10 (a) (18;iG) 



? . External spur of midtibia much shorter than internal. Basal ciliae of 



antennal segments prolonged. Forewing more strongly falcate than in c? of 



rudrata, distal margin dentate, lines mostly less distinct, discal line 1 nearer base 



posteriorly, curved ; hinder angle more strongly produced. Hindwing obviously 



narrower, dentate, a pale subanal patch divided by a transverse line, continued very 

 indistinctly to il'. 



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