( 742 ) 



cm. Chaerocina dohertyi (I'l. VI. f. 5, S). 



(? ? . Head and thorax abovo green-brown, clianging into tawny-olive on 

 abdomen ; a creamy wliite lateral stripe on head and tliorax ; a stripe on first 

 segment ol'])aljins, and nj)]>erside of legs creamy white ; sciiliiig of antenna creamy 

 buff; breast orange- rni'ous, abdomen below ferrnginons. 



\\'ings, ahore. Forewing greyish olive-green, darkest at base, on disc 



beyond end of cell, and between discal line and anal angle ; a creamy streak at inner 

 margin between base and miiliUe ; a black line beginning at costal margin close to 

 ai)ex and ending at apical third of inner margin, bordered pale proximally ; traces 

 of two antemedian lines and of a line from stigma to inner margin ; stigma an 



olive-black circle ; distal margin concave in front, then convex ; apex acnte. 



Hindwing geranium-pink, basal area black to a])ex of cell ; a black postdiscal baud, 

 shailing oft'distally, not reaching anal angle, connected along !SM- with basal area; 

 marginal area less bright ])iuk. 



Undcn^ide ferruginous, speckled with olive. Forewing : liasal area red, a 



broad black basal stripe beliind ; two oIiv(! discal lines, parallel, somewhat S-shaped, 

 curving costad in front, sometimes vestigial ; a broad greyish brown border, not 

 very conspicuous, widest behind R- where it reaches distal discal line. Hind- 

 wing : not quite so bright as forewing ; abdominal area pink, a somewliat S-sliaped 

 discal line corresponding to the second line of the forewing. 



cj. Sexual armature of the usual type of the allied genera. Tenth tergite ; first 

 slightly, in apical third more suddenly narrowed, tip rounded, feebly sinuate ; 

 sternite rather flat beneath, apex truncate with the angles strongly rounded. 

 Clasper with a great number of rather large friction-scales ; process of harpe 

 slender, horizontal, extreme end curved upwards. Penis-sheath with a right and 

 left process, asymmetrical, the left process flat and somewhat twisted, the right one 

 slightly curved, projecting, with some teeth at proximal edge. 



Length of forewing : c? 44 — 48 mm. ; ? 49 mm. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab. Kikuyu Escarpment, British East Africa, 6.")iJii — 9oiiii ft., January and 

 Marcli 1901 (W. Doherty). 



Twelve SS, one ? in the Tring Museum. 



One of tiie finest discoveries of our late friend in this fiiniilv. 



CLIX. EUCHLORON.— Typus : wn/arra. 



Sphinx Linn**', Si/xf. Nat. ed. x. p. 489 (1758) (partirn ; type : ncellala). 

 Deilephila, Boisduval (wow Laspeyres, 1809), Fuiuie Mwhitj. Bonrb. p. 73 (1833). 

 Ch(ienirciiii/iu, id. {iimi Duponchel, 1835), in Deleg., Vny. Afr. Aiisti: p. 590 (1847). 

 PhihuHjifliis, Walker (/-oh Harris, \S39), List Lep. Ins. D. M. viii. p. 179 (1850). 

 Chtfjfiiia Guene'e {mm Desv., 1830), in Maill., lie Reunion p. 32 (1802). 

 EurhloroH Boisduval, Spec. Gen. L<p. Hit. i. p. 213 (1875) (type : nugtient). 



S ? . Second segments of palpi divergent, touching one anotlier only 

 proximally, where their ventral scaling is long and tuft-like ; outer side of palpus 

 simjile, joint not open, no cavity at end of first segment ; inner surface of second 

 segment not naked, being clothed with thin and rounded scales, which, however, do 



