BY THOS. P. LUCAS, M.R.C.S.E., ETC. TS- 



Mr. Barnard ; near Launceston, Tasmania. 



Section HETEROCERA. Group SPHIXGID.E. 



Family CHOEROCAMPIX.E. 



Deilephila livornicoides, sp.nov. 



^ 00, ^ 75 mm. 



^ Head creamy drab, with a patch of oUve fuscous on 

 crown and narrowing along face. Palpi creamy drab bordered 

 with fuscous. Antenn* olivaceous creamy drab on under sur- 

 face. Thorax olive fuscous, with a creamy drab line anteriorly 

 over dorsum, and laterally nearly as far as forewings. Abdo- 

 men olive drab ; base of segments with a band of creamy drab, 

 broader in fore segments, narrowing to a line in posterior seg- 

 ments, each line banded with a short black stripe on either side 

 of dorsum ; the two anterior lines are covered laterally with a 

 broad band of black. Forewings triangular, costa straight, 

 rounded at apex, hindmargin rounded, creamy drab, ^\lth two 

 long bands of dark olive fuscous crossed by bands of ground 

 colour along the veins ; costal line light olive fuscous ; space 

 between costal line and 1st band lighter fuscous ; 1st band from 

 entire base of wing parallel to costa, narrowing at f to a point 

 just before apex ; the 2nd band from a base i to f inner margin 

 gradually narrows parallel to hindmargin to a point at apex : an 

 olive fuscous hindmarginal line ; cilia light drab. Hind wings 

 fuscous black at base, rosy pink in middle third, and with a 

 broad fuscous black band near but not touching hindmargin ; 

 hindmarginal line creamy-grey ; cilia as forewings. 



One specimen ; Toowoomba. 



^ Head and thorax olive fuscous with a white drab line 

 from face on either side along base of antenna, and along side of 

 dorsum giving off a bunch of white drab hairs at base of fore- 

 wing ; a white drab line midway between bases of antenme early 

 dividing into two, and narrowly diverging on either side of centre 

 of dorsum ; a line to outer side of this on either side, thus being 

 six lines on thorax, similar to D. linearis, Fahs., of America. 

 The abdomen is rich chocolate fuscous, with lines of segments 

 yellow fuscous, each line crossed by a narrow bar of black 

 immediately on either side of dorsum, and laterally by a broad 

 bar of black. Wings as cJ . 



