74 CLARK — NEW SPHINGIDAE JP.N.E.C.Z. 



Vol. VII. 



Temnora hollandi sp. nov. 



Al. ant. long., cT, 27 mm. Al. ant. lat., cf, 11 mm. Marg. ext., c?, 

 15 mm. 



Habitat. — Efulan, Cameroons. One male in coll. B. Preston Clark, 

 collected by Dr. H. L. Weber, and received in exchange from my friend 

 Dr. William J. Holland of the Carnegie Museum. 



This is perhaps the most beautiful of the known Temnoras, with varie- 

 gated and strongly marked coloration. It is allied to T. wallastoni. 



Antennae brown. Eye lashed. Palpus brown irrorated with blue, shad- 

 ing to tawny red on second and third segments. Dark brown along the eye. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen above, tawny red. Mesothoracic tegulae 

 tipped with blue. Breast, legs, and abdomen beneath, rich red. Side tufts 

 white. Two black spots on each segment beneath; border of each segment 

 beneath tipped with bluish white. Cilia of both wings above and be- 

 neath yellow. 



Fore wing above: In general shape like T. wallastoni. Distal margin 

 blunt, SC4-SC5; concave from SC5 to R2; then concave between every 

 vein from R2 to the hinder angle, which is bluntly produced. A dark 

 triangular area 5 mm. in width on costal margin, and slightly apical of its 

 median point, narrows to a blunt point on R3, whence it extends as a broad 

 line to the distal margin, reaching it at Ml. Basad of this line the general 

 color of the wing is light olive green, crossed with darker markings. 



A heavy and a light line, both brown, cross the wing sub-basally. A 

 brown antemedian line extends from a point on the inner margin 6 mm. 

 from the base to the costal margin, which it reaches 7 mm. from the base. 

 It curves basad during its entire length. Posterior to this line, parallel to 

 it, and 2 mm. distant, is a second one. These two lines are connected by 

 a heavy brown line, M2-SM2, and costally of this heavy line there runs 

 midway between the two parallel lines a third one. There is light blue 

 scaling at the base of the wing, and between SM2 and the inner margin, 

 also at the hinder angle. Two irregular, brown, postmedian lines, 1 mm. 

 distant from each other, extend from a point midway on the inner margin 

 to the dark brown costal triangular area, diverging as they go. The basal 

 one reaches the triangle at the median point of its basal side, and the pos- 

 terior one at its apex on R3. These two lines have between them and the 

 hinder angle a dark area, narrowing and vanishing at Ml. Apical of the 

 dark costal triangle is a hgl^t blue area, extending 4 mm. apically on the 

 costal margin, narrowing to R3, and including within it two dark lines. 

 Apical of this area the wing apex is dark brown to Rl, and heavily irrorated 

 with light blue R1-R3. 



Hind wing above: Unicolorous, dark brown. From M2 to SM2 is a 

 light brown, marginal, semicircular patch, irrorated anally with light blue. 



