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black clorso-lateral liue from tliorax to horn, interrupted, comb-like ou each segment, 

 as black dots are joined to it ; ventro-lateral line develo])ed to large spots on the 



outer side of the abdominal legs. Black form : head, pronotum, and anal tergite 



red : a dorso-lateral liue and an iufra-stigmatical one pale, sides pale-spotted. 



Ilab. Trojiical Australia : Queensland and N.W. Australia. 



In the Triug Museum 6 larvae, 16 S3, 14 ¥ ? from various places in 

 Queensland, some in January and February (Dodd). 



390. Cephonodes woodfordi. 



*Cej>hunoih'K woodfurdi Butler, Tra/ix. Enl. Sor. Loud. p. 3H',). t. 12. f. 1 (ISS',1) (Guadulcanar ; — 

 Mus. Tring). 



c? ? . A larger species than kylas; abdomen above with red liaiid on segment o; 

 underside of pal]ius and breast, legs (e.\cept hiudtarsus) and base of wings yellow, 

 a mesial series uf patches on abdomen, decreasing in siiie behind, and small lateral 

 spots on the proximal segments paler yellow, while a rather large triangular 

 lateral ^^oi on sternites 5 and and a larger mesial patch on 7 are like breast : 

 border of forewing about 1 mm. wide behind SG"\ 



cJ. Tenth tergite slightly asymmetrical, as is also the ninth ; elongate, tapering 

 apiead, divided by a mesial groove, the two halves only sejjarate at extreme end, the 

 left slightly longer than the right ; sternite produced into a long, lanceolate lobe, 

 which is asymmetrical and removed towards the left side, but not so much as 

 in C. letico(/aster, the segment resembling that of C. picas. Claspers nearly as in 

 ( '. /jicus : left one long, narrow, slightly curved, truncate ; right one large, very 

 broadly sole-shaped, inner surface clothed with black hairs, no distinct mesial fold. 

 Penis-funnel long, compressed. 



Hab. Solomon Islands and Louisiade Archipelago. 



Two subspecies : 



a. C. icooiljoidi woodfordi. 

 Cephonodes woodfordi Butler, I.e. ; Kirby, Cal. Ltp. Het. i. p. 027. n. 3 (1892). 



i ?. Tail black, some of the upper liair-scales 3ellowish, and (in cJ) a basal 

 patch ou underside yellow, in ? hairs and scales on anal segment also yellow. 

 Hab. Solomon Islands. 



In the Tring Museum -' c?c?, lo ? ? from : Guadalcanar (Woodford ; ti//>r) ; 

 Guadalcanar, iv. (Meek) ; Isabel, 4. vi. to 9. vii. 1901 (A. S. Meek and Eichhoru). 



b. C. woodfordi luime snbsp. nov. 



?. Tail clayish ochraceous, black only at base, breast deeper yellow than in 

 the specimens from the Solomons, side-spots of posterior abdominal sternites tawny 

 for the greater part, middle sternites with red scales at the sides. 



Hab. Sudest I., Louisiade Archipelago, February 1S98 (A. S. Meek). 



1 ? iu the Tring Museum. 



'Ml. Cephonodes janus. 



Macriiglossa cuiiniiKjIiami, Si'.haufuss {nun Walker, 185(i), Snmj. Olios, i. p. 22 (187(1) (Australia). 

 Cephonodes jaiiim MiRkin, Pnic. Ro/i. Hoc i.hifeiisld. viii. p. G. n. 3 (1801) (Brisbone ; Rockhampton) 



(J ? . Body above imicolorous, green iu fresh specimens, yellowish in fiuled 

 ones ; palpuB below almost white ; breast buti-yellow, abdomen ochraceous, both 



