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XX. On some Lcpidoptera from New Guinea. By 

 Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S. 



[Read August 7tb, 1889,] 



The species included in the following paper are derived 

 from two sources, viz. (1), a collection received from 

 Baron Ferdinand von Miiller, K.C.M.G., F.K.S., &c., 

 made by Sayer on Mount Obree and the adjoining ranges 

 in New Guinea, when accompanying Mr. Cuthbertson's 

 Exploring Expedition there under the direction of the 

 Eoyal Geographical Society of Australia; and (2), a 

 number of specimens, principally Geometers and Pyrales, 

 collected by Kowald near Port Moresby, and obtained 

 from him by Lord Walsingham, who kindly transferred 

 them to me. In both collections there were a certain 

 proportion of additional species, especially amongst the 

 Noctute and Pyrales, which I have not thought it well to 

 describe, as being represented by single, imperfect, or 

 female specimens only, and belonging to obscure groups ; 

 descriptions drawn from such material would be neces- 

 sarily imperfect, and a source of confusion rather than 

 of benefit to science. 



SPHINGID^. 



Deilephila, Ochs. 



1. Deilepliila heliodcs, n. s. 



(?* , 86 mm. Head light ochreous-brown, crown dark fuscous. 

 Palpi fuscous-reddish, base whitish. Antennae brown. Thorax 

 ochreous, becoming dark fuscous anteriorly, margin of shoulders 

 reddish-grey- whitish ; a well-defined whitish-ochreous spot near 

 each shoulder. Abdomen brownish-ochreous, segments somewhat 

 suffused with dark fuscous at base. Legs light ochreous, more or 

 less reddish-tinged. Fore wings with hind margin quite straight ; 

 light ochreous-brown, faintly purplish-tinged, with small scattered 

 dark fuscous strigula; ; four straight dark fuscous transverse lines 

 nearly parallel to hind margin, at one-fifth, two-fifths, two-third; , 

 and four-fifths, third strongest and most conspicuous, fourth slender, 



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