(482) 



4. Choaspes hemixanthus f^pcc nov. (PI. XI. f. :5. J.) 



c??. Head and anteriDi- portion of thorax Wnisli green, this colour gradually 

 shading into olive-bnfi" and yellowish buff; first and second segments of palpus, 

 excepting the black hairs and the upperside of the second, and underside of 

 abdomen buff-yellow; breast greenish black; tibia and tarsus of foreleg huffish, 

 of mid- and hindlegs olivaceous. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing : bluish green, pale huffish between cell and 



hinder margin ; veins blue-black ; fringe olive-black. Hindwing : pale glossy 



green at base, black from costal edge to R', the black area distally produced 

 backwards and here shaded with pale green scales, rest of wing straw-yellow, 

 changing into maize-yellow st distal and abdominal margins. 



Uiulerside. Forewing: like upperside, but posterior area from base to near 



distal margin cream-colour, and the veins heavily streaked with blue-black. 



Hindwing : costal area down to R' and base up to M' like forewing, rest of wing 

 maize-yellow, this area sharply defined. 



Length of forewing : 26 mm. 



Bab. Upi)er Aroa River, British New Guinea, January to April 19U3 (A. S. 

 Meek & Eichhorn) ; a series. 



SPHINGIDAE. 



5. Eurypteryx shelfordi Rothschild & Jord., Nov. Zool. ix. 8ui)pl. 



p. 813 (1903) (N. Borneo). 



(PI. XL f. 1. ?.) 



The type of this fine Sphingid is now in the Tring Museum. We feel very 

 grateful to E. Shelford for having given ns the specimen in exchange for other 

 Sphingidae. 



6. Xylophanes rhodochlora Rothschild & Jord., I.e. p. Ton. n. 653 (1903) (Peru). 



(PL XL f. 15. 16. S.) 



ARCTIIDAE. 



Clerckia thoracica iid., /..-. viii. p. 410. n. 4 (lOoi) (Humboldt Bay). 

 (PI. XL f 6. cJ.) 



8. Clerckia omissa iid., l.c. p. 409. n. 1 (1901) (Gnadalcanar). 

 (PI. XLf. 7. ?.) 



9. Meteugoa fasciosa iid., I.e. p. 424. n. 37 (1901) (Isabel I.). 

 (PI. XL f. 9. 6.) 



COSSIDAE. 

 in. Xyleutes zophoplecta Turner. (PI. XL f. lo. S, Townsville.) 



We have received this insect nnder the above name, but cannot find tin 

 description. 



