404 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Lepidoptera. 



small brown spots from costa to third median branch. On tlie 

 under surface this species nearly resembles T. Wallengremi, 

 the secondaries, particularly of the female, being of a rosy 

 flesh-colour. Expanse of wings 40-41 millim. 



(J $ . Elephant Bay, south-west coast of Africa {II. W. 

 Walker) . 



Presented to the Museum collection, with many other ^ 

 and new Lepidoptera, by J. J. Walker, Esq., one of the 

 energetic, painstaking, and liberal collectors whom it has been 

 my good fortune to meet with for many years. Two paii's of 

 this species were collected by his brother (after whom I liave 

 named it), and the more perfect pair was deposited in the 

 national collection j the other specimens are larger. 



Sphingidse. 



4. Ceplionodes Buchlandii^ sp. n. 



Macroqlossa Cunninghamii, Boisduval, Hist. Nat, Insectes Spiling. 

 Ses.' Cast. pi. ix. fig. 5 (1874). 



Three examples. Port Darwin [Buchland). 



This species is not the M. Cunningliamii of Walker, the 

 latter being simply an Australian form of M. liyJas and iden- 

 tical with (if not the type of) J/, yunx of Boisduval ; it is 

 nearly alUed to M. Kingii of M'Leay, but smaller, of a 

 different shape (more resembling typical Hemaris)^ and tJie 

 apical border of the primaries is dentated along its inner 

 edge. M. confinis of Boisduval, a form closely allied to M. 

 Cunninghamii, is said to be in the British Museum from 

 Sierra Leone and Ashanti. But M. Boisduval is mistaken ; 

 we have only two examples which can be regarded as typical, 

 and both are from Natal ; none of our examples of Ceplionodes 

 hylas come from any of liis other localities for this form. 



Agaristidae. 

 5. Agarista hiformis, sp. n. 



Allied to A. agricola and A. daimonis ; the male much like 

 A. agricola, but differing in its more slender build, the smaller 

 orange spots on its primaries, the more central position of the 

 blue band on its secondaries, the narrowness of the carmine 

 band, »nd the greater length of the white fringe ; the female 

 differs much more, the orange spots on the primaries being 

 replaced by smaller cream-coloured spots, sometimes j^iartly 

 obliterated, the blue band on the secondaries straighter, better 

 defined ; the carmine band narrower and the white fringe of 



