64 CLARK — NEW SPHINGIDAE very 
Lycosphingia hollandi sp. nov. 
Plate VIII, figure 4. 
Al. ant. long., «, 30 mm. AI. ant. lat., %,13mm. Marg. ext., 3, 
17 mm. 
Habitat.—Lolodorf, Kamerun. T. A. Reis. One male in coll. B. Preston 
Clark, given by my friend, Dr.William J. Holland, and named for him because 
of his unrivalled contributions to the knowledge of African lepidoptera. 
In general appearance this beautiful species suggests Orecta fruhstorfert 
Clark. The fore wing is more falcate, but less so than in L. hamatus Dewitz. 
Antennae white above, yellow beneath. Palpi orange red. Frons and head 
yellow. Thorax and abdomen above, brown. Breast, body and abdomen 
beneath, orange red; 8th sternite beneath, white irrorated with brown. 
Legs brown. 
Fore wing above: Strongly falcate, truncate at tip. Brown, shaded 
with purple. Anal angle strongly produced. Costal margin regularly con- 
vex. Distal margin regularly and deeply concave. Inner margin S-shaped, 
incurving from hinder angle, then curving strongly outward, and again 
inward as it reaches base of wing. Prominent dark brown, rounded, basal 
spot, 2 mm. in diameter, and incised externally on SM2. Large white disco- 
cellular stigma. A broad faint brown shade extending from a point on costal 
margin one fourth the distance from the base toward hinder angle; a second 
shade roughly parallel to the inner one, and leaving costal margin midway 
between base and apex; between these two shades a faint transverse wavy 
line. Both shades terminating on a brown line running from a point on 
inner margin 6 mm. from hinder angle. This line curves distad until at 
R3 it is distant but 3 mm. from distal margin; thence it curves costad, 
and broadens to a shade approximately parallel to the two inner ones as 
it approaches the costal margin. This line is bordered externally from 
inner margin beyond M1 by a narrow purplish line. A cloud of scales of 
the same color lies between this line and the distal margin. A subapical 
dark brown patch extends 8 mm. on the costal margin from a point 3 mm. 
from apex, and is irrorated mesially with purplish scales. Cilia brown. 
Hind wing above: Red-brown, unicolorous, angled at Rl. Anal 
margin light brown; at anal angle a narrow, sharply lunulate, geminate, 
dark brown line extends to M2; a narrow purplish line between the two 
brown ones; posteriorly the lunules are filled in with light purple. The 
area to the margin is dark brown, and the undulate margin is marked by 
a fine, clear, triple line of purple, dark brown and white, the latter color 
