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XV. Descriptions of some new Lepidoptera-Heterocera 

 in the collection of the Hon. Walter de Rothschild. 

 By Aethur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Eead June 5th, 1889.] 



Plate XII. 



The following five new species have recently been 

 received from the Solomon Islands and the neighbour- 

 hood of Mombaza, E. Africa. 



SPHINGID^. 

 Cephonodes ivoodfordii, n. s. (PI. XIL, fig. 1). 

 Size of C. apus, upper surface almost exactly similar to C. hylas, 

 the thorax bright olive-green, the abdomen ochreous, with the 

 posterior half of the third and fourth segments black; anterior 

 half of the fourth segment bright chestnut-red ; fifth segment 

 divided by a central longitudinal black-brown bar and edged with 

 black ; terminal segment glossy black, with ochreous extremity ; 

 lateral and anal tufts black : below the body is wholly different ; 

 the white colouring, with the exception of a streak bounding the 

 eyes behind the palpi, being wholly absent ; the palpi clear 

 ochreous, the pectus and legs deep ochreous ; venter dull black, 

 transversely barred down the centre with decreasing ochreous 

 bands, and at the sides with less prominent narrower bands ; base 

 of the wings below ochreous instead of white. Expanse of wings, 

 80 mm. 



Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands [Woodford). 



LITHOSIID^. 



Exotrocha securizonis, n. s. (PL XIL, fig. 2). 



5 . Nearly allied to E. miles from Alu, but larger; the scarlet 



band on the primaries hatchet-shaped, being narrower, and 



emitting a broad streak (on or below the costa) to the base ; its 



outer edge less incurved at inner margin; in highly coloured 



examples the outer border and veins adjoining are shining steel- 



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