11 CLAHK — TWENTY-FIVE NEW SPHINGIDAE pv?MTin ' 



white costal i • r 1 1 . - 1 1 . L6 mm. in width, oommeneing at a point 4 mm. from 

 wing tip; a similar faint shade 7 mm. from wing tip on costal margin; 

 irregular distal margin brown irrorated with bluish white scales. Hind 

 Wing beneath, yellow irrorated with rusty red scales; two bluish white 

 patches similar to those of fore wing, but fainter; distal margin brown, 

 irrorated with bluish white 



Macroglossum doddi sp. nov. 



Al. ant. long., 9 , 22 mm. Al. ant. lat., 9 , 9 mm. Marg. ext., 9 , 13 mm. 

 Habitat, — Kuranda, northern Queensland. One female in coll. B. Preston 

 Clark, collected by Mr. F. P. Dodd, and named after him. 



A beautiful and highly variegated species, allied to M . dohertyi 

 Roth. (1894). 



Antennae dark brown. Palpus, first segment white, continuing to a point 

 through the second segment; the rest of second segment dark mummy- 

 brown; third segment lighter brown. Head and thorax wood-brown, 

 with mesial stripe; mesothoracic and side tegulae rich dark mummy- 

 brown, both bordered with wood-brown. Abdomen above, dark mummy- 

 brown; yellow side spot on third segment, traces of yellow on second 

 segment; mesial and lateral wood-brown spots on each segment, bordered 

 with light pinkish cinnamon. Breast w*hite, dark mummy-brown laterally. 

 Abdomen beneath, dark mummy-brown, with a broad mesial white band 

 extending to third segment, where it narrows abruptly, and continues 

 narrow to the anus; segments bordered with white; side tufts white. 

 Cilia of both wings, above and beneath, mummy-brown. 



Fore wing above. Rich dark mummy-brown; a small white basal dot; 

 a faint narrow sub-basal pale pinkish cinnamon line extends from a point 

 3 mm. distant from the base of the wing, on costal margin, obliquely basad 

 toward inner margin, which it does not quite reach. The two narrow 

 sharply defined bands peculiar to M. dohertyi are present, the median one 

 is pale pinkish buff, while the postmedian one is light pinkish cinna- 

 mon; the postmedian line consists of a series of lunules, convex basally, 

 while the line as a whole is evenly curved, and convex distally. In 

 both these respects it differs markedly from the similar band of M. 

 dohertyi, which (' Novitates Zoologicae,' Vol. I, PI. V, fig. 2) is continuous in 

 outline, and slightly S-shaped in form. Another drawing, made for me, of 

 the type, confirms this figure in the 'Novitates.' Posteriorly of this line is a 

 mummy-brown band 2 mm. wide at the hinder angle, and filling the area 



