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1920] Holland, Lepidopetra of the Congo 299 



This insect, which in coloration agrees with the insect which I 

 named Heteronijgmia clothmta (see Psyche, 1893, VI, p. 415), recalls in the 

 markings of the fore wings the limacodid which bears the name Cteno- 

 compa hilda (Druce). It is represented in the collection by a mashed 

 female specimen, taken at Medje in the first week of September 1910. 

 We have good examples taken at Efulen, Cameroon, and I select a finely 

 preserved male from our collection as the type of that sex and designate 

 the damaged female in the Lang-Chapin Collection, as well as a series of 

 males and females in the Carnegie Museum as paratypes. 



(615) 3. Lselia soloides, new species 



Plate XIV, Figure 7, 9 

 9 . Structurally the insect runs to Lcelia according to the analytical table given 

 by Aurivillius, 1904, Arkiv Zool., II, No. 4, pp. 62 et seq., but in the color and markings 

 of the wings it looks exactly like some species of the genus Soloe. The head, thorax, 

 and abdomen are more or less clothed with yellowish hairs; the legs are yellowish; 

 there are two rows of black spots on the under side of the abdomen; both the fore 

 and hind wings are white, the former slightly dusted on the costa and apical area with 

 pale gray; both wings have at the end of the cell moderately large and very conspicu- 

 ous roundish black discal spots. Expanse, 44 mm. 



The type, which is unique and not in very fine condition, was taken 

 at Medje about the middle of August 1910 and is in The American Mu- 

 seum of Natural Historv. 



(616) 4. Laelia species (?) 



One specimen taken at Faradje, April 1911, which represents a 

 species probably new to science, but the example is in too imperfect a 



condition to justify its description. 



Sphingidae 



Herse Oken 



(617) 1. Herse convolvuli (Linnaeus) 



Sphinx convolvuli Linn.eus, 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th Ed., p. 490. 



Protoparce convolvuli Rebel, 1910, in Berge's Schmett., 9th Ed., p. 91, PI. xvii, figs. 



3a, 6, c. 

 Herse convolvuli Rothschild .\nd Jord.\x, 1903, Nov. Zool., IX, Suppl., part 1, p. 11. 



Of this common and widely distributed species there are three 

 examples, a male and two females, all taken at Faradje in November 

 1910. 



