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llalj. East Al'i'ii'a : I'miu Dclagoa Bay lo IJritisli lOast Africa. 



In tlie Triag- Museum 4 c?cJ, 2 ?? from: Delagoa 15. (Monteiro) ; Ft. 

 Johnston, Brit. C A. (Dr. Kendalh ; Uingiirn, Germ. E. Afr.; Mombasa, x. 

 (Ur. Ansorge). 



714. Hippotion rosae. 



*l>,ii:ip.'«i ivxof Butler, Aii,i. M,uj. X. U. (y). x. p. 433. n. .". (18S2) (Delagoa B. :— :Mus. Brit.). 

 MiUipsilu^ rosw, Kirby, Oit. Liji. 11,1. i. p. GCO. n. 9 (1892). 



?. Abroad-winged and large species, easily recognised by the jiink antenna 

 and the whitish grey iipperside of body and forewing. Black stigma of forewing 

 prominent ; a patch of blackish and brown speckles at inner margin. Body stout. 

 I'alpus simple, second segment as broad as long, truncate. External sjnar of 

 niidtibia considerably shorter than inner one. Antenna clubbed, short for such a 

 large species. 



Early stages not known. 



f/(iL Delagoa Bay. 



In the Tring Museum 2 ? ? from Delagoa Bay (Monteiro). 



715. Hippotion rebeli siiec. nov. (PI. V. f. 12, ?). 



(S ? . Antenna rather strongly clubbed in ? . Body above clay-tolour, underside 

 creamy buff, no markings. 



Wings, uppersidi', clayish buff, hindwing faintly pinkish. Forewing : 



speckled with brown, a faint l)rown transverse line at base of M- ; a clayish 

 cinnamon patch just beyond apex of cell, another at inner margin close to outer 

 angle, bordered proximally by a vestigial line, a short jiostdiscal band between SC"' 



and li-', and a short blackish oblique apical dash ; a minute black stigma. 



Miudwing : an indistinct border of brown speckles. 



Underside buff, hindwing a little paler than forewing, both spi'ckled with 

 brown ; no markings, except a sliort ai)ical dash and the vestige of a line midway 

 between subcostal fork and apex of forewing, and a faint brown border to the 

 liindwing. 



c^. Tenth tergite slender, convex above, apex acuminate ; sternite with almost 

 parallel sides, rounded at end, with a small mesial incision. Clasper with one large 

 i'riction-scale ; harpe ending in a broad asymmetrical process (PI. LII. f. 22). 

 Penis-sheath armed with one conical pointed process which i^rojects towards the 

 right side (PL LVII. f. 38). 



Early stages not known. 



Ilalj. N.E. Africa : Sudan ; Obock. 



In the Hofmuseum in Wien 1 ? {ti/pe, tigured) from Bahr-el-Heral', (Sudan ; 

 a c? in the Museum in Paris from Obock. 



This Obock S has the forewing less distinctly marked, but it shows better than 

 the ? that the line on the disc and that before inner margin are portions of one 

 discal line. 



710. Hippotion irregularis. 



*/'«■/■(/--«, inetjularis Walker, Lht Lep. Inx. II. .\f. viii. p. 152. n. 4 (1856) (VV. Afr. ;— Mus. Brit.) ; 



Bull., Tranx. Zool. Sue. Laud. ix. p. 648. n. 4 (1877). 

 ('/locrocaia/ia? Irrcyiilaris, Boisduval, Spec. (Jiii. Lip. Hit. i. p. 283. ii. 82 (1875). 

 ('Iiucrocaiiqja irrcyularh, IloUaud, Trniis. A/ucr. Enl. Sue. xvi. p. G3. u. 18. t. 3. f. 3 (1889). 

 Cliacrocawpa ii-n(jiihirix, Karsch, l-liit. Xarhi: xvii. p. 294. u. 7 (1891) (Cameroous). 

 .UitnimluH irregularis, Kirby, Cat. Lcp. llct. i. p. 601. n. 10 (1892). 

 *Tkcretra crossei llotlisuliiltl iii. p. 22. n. 3 (1896) (Assaba ; — Mus. Triug). 



