180 On Lepidopus atlanticus/rom Madeira. 



margin, a spot crossing centre of cell, a subquadrate apical 

 spot, and a small one near apex of inner margin dark dull 

 olivaceous. Posterior wings stramineous, olivaceously tinted 

 towards margins, and with a curved dull olivaceous spot near 

 the inner angle of posterior margin. Anterior wings be- 

 neath with the basal area ochraceous, the apical area oliva- 

 ceous, spots absent ; posterior wings beneath without spot ; 

 both wings crossed by two indistinct fascia?, one beyond cell, 

 the other near outer margin. 



Exp. wings 72 millim. 



Ha b. Transvaal, Lydenburg District. 



In colour and markings somewhat resembling Mimas tilim, 

 Linn. 



I have recently received from Delagoa Bay a specimen of 

 Panacra orphaius, Herr.-Schaff., collected there by the 

 Rev. H. Junod. This specimen I had previously, and with 

 the advantage of the assistance of Sir G. H. Hampson, com- 

 pared with P. variolosa, Walk., of which specimens both 

 from the Andamans and India are in the British Museum. 

 No real difference could be discovered between my South- 

 African specimen and Walker's species, and we have appa- 

 rently another hawk-moth common to the Ethiopian and 

 Oriental regions. The synonymy should therefore stand as 

 follows : — 



Panacra orphceus, Herr.-Schaff. 



Chzrocampa orphceus, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereurop. Schmett. i. fig. 104 



(1854) ; Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 247 (1875). 

 Panacra variolosa, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 156. n. 4 (1856) ; 



Swinhoe, Cat. East. & Austr. Lep -Het. p. 13. n. 50, pi. i. fig. 4 



(1892). 

 Panacra vac/ans, Butl. 111. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 4, t. lxxviii. fig. 7 



(1881). 

 Panacra natalensis, Rothsch. Novit. Zool. vol. i. p. 79, pi. v. fig. 13 



(1894). 



Hab. S. Africa, N. India, Andaman Islands, Borneo. 



XXIX. — On a Specimen of Lepidopus atlanticus, Goode & 

 Bean, from Madeira. By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 



The British Museum has received, together with other fishes 

 collected at Madeira by the late Mr. Axel J. Arendrup, and 

 presented to the Trustees by his mother, a fine specimen, 

 1 metre 20 centim. in length, of a fish described and figured in 



