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Descriptions of Muths new to Japan, collected by Messrs. Lewis 

 and Fryer] by Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The species here described are the pick of Mr. George Lewis's 

 collection of moths, combined Avith a fairly large series sent 

 home recently for identification by Mr. H. Pryer. 



Although it is not considered a correct thing to look a gift- 

 horse in the mouth, I must express a wish that Mr. Pryer had 

 not sent me his most dilapidated specimens for identification; 

 the study of the Ileterocera is sufficiently difficult in the case of 

 good specimens, but when not merely half the pattern and 

 colouring is missing, but the head and sometimes also the legs 

 and abdomen, the chances against the identification of a moth 

 are greatly increased if not entirely annihilated. 



Sphingid.e. 

 1. Sphinx constricta, n. sp. 



Allied to S. ligustri, of Europe, decidedly smaller, wings much 

 narrower and more elongated, so as to more nearly resemble 

 S. Kalinia; of the United States ; much darker than S. iigustri, 

 the paler areas being of a deep copper-brown colour (excepting 

 the white sub-marginal lines), the darker area greyish-black, 

 traversed by velvet-black lines; secondaries agreeing with those 

 of iS. Kalniice, in having no sub-basal band and the outer border 

 somewhat dark, but differing from it and S. Iigustri in the much 

 greater width of the central band towards the abdominal margin, 

 and from S. Iigustri in the much wider submarginal black band; 

 body and under-surface almost the same as in the latter species. 

 Exjmnse of wings 76 mm, 



Kashiwagi, 22nd June, 1881 (G. Lewis). 



2. Ambidyx ochracea, n. sp. 



Allied to A. auripennis^ of Ceylon; ochreous, with a faint pink 

 flush; primaries narrow and elongated, as in the American A. 

 strigilis; markings most like those of A. consanguis, but much 



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CiSTULA EnTOMOLOGICA, 



30th November, 1S85. 



