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45. Protoparce leucoptera spec. nov. (PI. XI. f. 2, ? ). 



?. Antemia very slender, faintly incrassat.e distally, scaling white. Body 

 whitish grey, mixed with brown, sides of palpus near eye, a dorso-lateral jiatch on 

 metanotum and first abdominal segment, bases of apical edges of abdominal tergites 

 on sides, brown ; white dorso-lateral dots of abdomen widely sei)arate (not distinct 

 in our unique individual) ; five large yellow side-patches to abdomen, gradually 

 decreasing in diameter, a trace of a sixth spot on seventh segment ; posterior 

 ventral angles of tergites white ; abdomen below with traces of brown mesial spots. 

 First segment of protarsus about as long as segments 2 and 3 together, with a few 

 short spines at base, and three long ones, situated at base, in middle and at end 

 respectively. No pulvillus. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing : greyish white ; a white stigma ; submarginal 



area shaded with brown ; a brown postdiscal undulate line, an oblique black ai)ical 

 line, and rather indistinct brown submarginal halfmoons ; fringe not well jweserved, 



apparently the white spots smaller than the brown portions. Hindwing : grey, 



shaded with brown, marginal area brown, a blackish, irregular, postdiscal band ; 

 between it and base fonr indistinct bands or lines, the most proximal broadest, 

 situated between base and M^. 



Underside drab grey. Forewing : disc slightly paler ; grey marginal s]iots ; 



a thin oblique brown apical line ; scaling in front of this line grey ; scattered grey 



scaling also along outer margin. Hindwing : paler grey, especially a broad 



ill-defined discal band-like space and abdominal area ; distal marginal area brown, 

 especially in submarginal area ; a faint brown band between this border and cell. 



Length of forewing : ? , 45 mm. 



Hah. Chatham 1., Galapagos Is., 14. iii. '01 (Beck). 



1 ? in the Tring Museum.* 



Allied to petunim and sexta. 



The dorsum of the thorax is mutilated in the specimen. 



46. Protoparce pellenia. 



*C'liufrommpa jiellenia Herrich-Sch., Aiisl. Sc/iiii,. p. 5U. f. ll« (1854) ("Am. aiiuin.";— coll. 



Staudinger). 

 Sphinx pelkniu. Walker, L,d Lep. Ins. B. M. xxxi. p. 36 (1804) ; Boisd., Hjuc. Gin. Up. Hit. i. 



p. 80. n. 13 (187.^) (Colombia). 

 *ftphh(j- capxici Boisduval, l.r. n. 14. (1875) (Bogota, ,^ ;~coll. Charles Oberthiir). 

 I'rotoparcepMcnkt, Butler, Tr<in«. Ziiul. Sue. Lund. ix. p. 1)08. n. IG (1877) (" S. Amer."). 

 I'hleiji-lhonl'iuti capaiui, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Uet. i. p. 68'J. n. 27 (18'j2) (Bogota). 

 I'Miyrlhonlius pellmua, id., I c. n. 28 (181)2) (" S. Amer."). 



* I'mudoKphinx niorelhi, Druce, Ann. Ua(j. N. IL ((i). xiii. p. 169 (1894) (Orizaba, ? ;— coll. Uruce.) 

 Prulo/mrrc aqmci, Scbaus, Ent. New« vi. p. 143 (1895) (^nanrlia) ; Druce, Biol. Ceiiti: Amer., 



Lep. Iht. Huppl. p. 315. n. 3 (ii). t. 67. f . 4 ( ? ) (1896) (Orizaba ; .Jalapa ; Bogota). 

 6 ?. The discal black sericeous patches of the forewing above heavy, i'orniing 

 a band which is strongly angled near If ; th(^ obli(iue Ijlack apical line as well as 

 the jiosterior portion of the black [wstdiscal line very heavy, the snbniarginiil 

 zigzag line creamy buff, not white ; creamy buff si>ots of fringe variable in size, 

 "otnetimes scarcely one-third as wide as the brownish IJack fringe-spots ; inter- 

 lipaccH IV — (.SM'j between discal band and postdiscal line more or less dark rnsset. 

 Abdomen below shaded with brown scales, especially in S. Antenna almost as stout 

 an IN gexta. First segment of fore-tarsns cNternally with 4 or 5 inoderatcly long 

 "pines and numerous small ones above tliein. .\(> pulvillus. 



* Sec Api-endix. 



