( 114 ) 

 Sfi. Neogene dyuaews. 



Hi/hiatu dymiais Httbner, /..-. 5. p. 19. n. 232. f. 463. 4G4 (1825?) (Babia) ; Kirby, Cat. l.qt. [Id. 



I p. 6'i5. D. 19 (1S02) (Bahia). 

 Sphinx ihi/iieiix (!), Boifduval, Sjier. Gai. I.rp- H''- i- P- 98. n. 3."> (187.''i) (Pernambuco). 



S. The dialky wliite colour of the occiput and sides of ])ro- and mesonotnm 

 distinjruisli tliis s])ec,ics consiiicuously from ircri. The forewinu; has an oblique, 

 grey, more or less iutcrrni)tcd, aiiical baud which joius as a rule the grey transverse 

 discal band. The hindwiug is more or less suffused with brown ; the brown 

 maririnal band is not sharjily defined. No long bristles at the base of the midtarsns, 

 or oidy one or two. 



S. Se.Nual armature essentially as in rci'ri, liut tlie tootli of the penis-sheiith 

 longer. 



¥ . Not seen. 



Ildh. Brazil : Bahia, Pernambuco. 



In the Tring Museum 'i S S from Pernambuco, received from Mr. Schaus. 



XXXII. COENOTES gen. nov.— Typus : ereinophilae. 



Sphinu:, Lucas (won Linne, 1758), QtieensUunhr xxxix. p. 894 (1891). 



rrotoparcc, Miskin {iioii Burmeister, 1856), Pmc. Rnij. Sue. Qiii-ai.sl. viii. p. 24 (1891). 



(J ? . Closely allied to ycogcne. Antenna much slenderer, j)alpus smaller, 

 tongne shorter and weaker, midtarsns without the long basal bristles, R^ of the 

 hindwing a little more central, the lobes of the paronychium much shorter ; eye not 

 lashed. 



Larva grey sage green ; head, anal prolegs and horn black ; three rows of 

 orange sjiots, one dorsal, two lateral, the latter including the stigmata ; horn long 

 and thin (from a drawing by Miss Barnard). — Food : Ercmophlla. 



Tongue-case of pu[ia not free. 



Ilab. Queensland. 



One species. 



87. Coenotes eremophilae (PI. XII. f. 8, cJ, typf). 



*Sphinx enmnpliilai- Luca.s, l.r. (May 1891) (Dawson ;—Miis. Triog) ; Misk., Pnic. Rmj. Soc. 



Queeml. viii. p. 64 (IS'.)l) ( = iiihihiii(x) ; Luc, Proc. Lhiii. Snc. y. S. W. (2). vi. p. 278 



(1891). 

 PniliijHin-e iiiiii/miis Miskiu, l.r., p. 24 (1891) (Dawson). 

 Phlrgetliimtini! (?) trniifijiliiliie Kirby, Niiv. Zndi,. i. p. 38. n. 43 (1894). 



The ti//M_: (if tliis sjiccies is in llie Tring ftluseum, ex coll. Barnard, from which 

 collection Lucas described tlie insect. Miskin's miuimii.', came from the same source. 



c^. Tenth tergite shorter and )nore strongly curved than in iVcw/c/^f, strongly 

 convex dorsally at ai)e.x ; sternite truncate-sinuate, a little longer than broad, with 

 the angles rounded. Harpe very short, rounded-triangular, denticulate at eud, 

 without a patch of erect scales (which patch is present in Ncoyene, Piotoparce, 

 etc.). Penis-sheath defective in the only S at disposal, apparently without 

 armature. 



