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Occiput tliickly liairy. Second segment of the oval abdomen with two median post- 

 erior bristles ; third segment with about eight on its posterior margin. Legs with 

 moderately strong bristles. Neuration as in yurinia ; first posterior cell narrowly 

 open before the tip, its posterior angle rectangular and with a minute appendiculation: 

 posterior cross-vein oblique, its junction with the fourth vein twice as remote from the 

 anterior cross-vein as from the angle of the first posterior cell. 



Talarocera Smithii, n. sp. Head yellow, the front reddish or somewhat 

 browiii.-h. Third joint of antennte yellowish red, in the female broadly brownish in 

 front, the arista black. Palpi yellow ; proboscis black, its horizontal portion about 

 as long as the front tibise. Hair of occiput light golden yellow. Thorax deep shin- 

 ing, somewhat bluish black, lightly pruinose and with two slender stripes in front 

 when seen from behind. Abdomen reddish translucent black, shining, the tip tri- 

 angularly reddish yellow. Legs deep black. Wings and tegulce deep brown. Length 

 14—15 mm. 



Three specimens, Capada, Brazil (December and January), collected 

 by I\Ir. H. H. Smith, well known as a writer on Brazil, and for his ex- 

 tensive South American natural history collections. 



A NE^V SPHINX. 



By J. B. Smith. 



Sphinx coloradus, sp. nov. 



Fuscous or ashen gray, dorsum of the thorax a httle darker. A broad, deep 

 brown band from base of antennse forming thence a broad margin to the patagite. 

 This band narrowly margined with white on either side. Metathoracic tuftings 

 blackish. Abdomen with dorsum fuscous or brownish gray, with a narrow, darker 

 dorsal line. A broad lateral black band, interrupted by the narrow white margining 

 of the segments forming very narrow demi-bands. Beneath, dull ashen gray. Prim- 

 aries with a whitish shade through the center of wing from base to apex, this shade 

 inferiorly margined by another of deeper more fuscous gray. Though this darker 

 shade is a series of short, black, interspaced marks, the apical oblique dash formed 

 by a somewhat incomplete union of three of these dashes. Parallel with, and rather 

 near to the outer margin is a somewhat sinuate black line, with a paler gray shading 

 on either side, the line attaining neither the inner margin nor the apex. Fringes 

 pale, cut with darker gray. Secondaries brownish gray, immaculate ; fringes pale, 

 cut with darker gray. Beneath, uniformly brownish gray, with the apical dash faintly 

 reproduced. 



Expands 1.2 inch. = 28 mm. — Hab. Colorado. 



The type is a male in Mr. Graef's collection. The species differs 

 from all in this group with immaculate secondaries by the paler subcostal 

 shade, which, with its darker inferior margining is characteristic of the 

 species. The palpi are short and slender, hardly exceeding the front. 

 Fore and middle tibia spinose, first joint of the tarsi with three longer, 

 stout spines on outer side. The spurs are weak and short. 



