54 Mr. Newman's Characters of 



Class LEPIDOPTERA, Linn. 



Stirps SPHINGINA, Newman. 



Genus Deilepiiila, Oclisenheimer. 



Sp. 1 . Deilephila Dalii, Newman. 



Alts anticis fuscts, colore transversim undalo ; lunuld med'iand nori' 

 nunquam puncto quoque proximo niveis ; posticis ferrugineis 

 nullo modo signatis ; ahdomine pallide fusco mcisur'is satura- 

 tioribus. (Corp. long. \-6 unc. ; alarum dilat. 3 unc.) 



The fore wings are brown, waved transversely with a some- 

 what darker hue ; near the centre of the disk of the wing is a 

 snow-white lunule, and almost close to the anterior limb of this, 

 but slightly nearer the apex of the wing, and also nearer its costa, 

 IS a spot of the same colour ; these markings, very conspicuous 

 and ornamental in the greater number of specimens, are subject 

 to much variation, both as to magnitude and distinctness, the 

 white in some instances is tinged more or less with the prevailing 

 colour of the wing, and occasionally is altogether obliterated ; 

 hind wings altogether ferruginous, with paler cilia. Head, tho- 

 racic segments and abdomen brown, the last decidedly the palest, 

 but each segment has on each side a dark patch at the base. 

 Beneath, the clothing of the face and palpi is whitish, the sternum 

 and abdomen brownish grey ; the fore wings are dingy brown, 

 with two narrow transverse and somewhat indistinct waved dis- 

 coidal lines. 



A common species at Moreton Bay. Mr. Gibbon took it in 

 some abundance. I have named it in honour of Mr. Dale, of 

 Glanville's Wootton, one of our very best practical Entomolo- 

 gists. 



Genus Macroglossa, Ochsenheimer. 

 Sp. 1. Macroglossa Nox, Newman. 



Fusco-nigra ; alis posticis nigerrimis, margine costali late albido ; 

 abdominis segmentis lateraliter nigra niveoque ornatis. (Corp. 

 long. 1*5 unc; alarum dilat. 2*2 unc.) 



Above, the palpi, head, thoracic segments and fore wings are 

 dark brown approaching to black, the fore wings exhibiting traces 

 of transverse fascia; of a darker hue, and all these also exhibit 



