506 Hon. W. Rothschild on 



connected by very numerous cross ones; tegulse ferruginous. 

 Wings hairy, nervures and the large stigma fusco-ferruginous ; 

 b. n. falling short of t.-m. ; second t.-c. with the usual patch 

 of black hair, but the nervure only slightly bent (not strongly 

 as in T. bicometes). Legs ferruginous ; hind tibia with a 

 broad creamy-white lamina bearing the spurs ; hind tarsi 

 very long, dull pale yellowish, with yellowish hair. Abdo- 

 men black, with the usual apical hair-bands, only evident in 

 certain lights, when they shine brilliantly ; disks of third and 

 fourth segments covered with a sort of brownish felt ; fifth 

 ventral segment with a pencil of long yellowish hair on each 

 side, and a pair of small erect hair-pencils arising from base, 

 in the wide emargination of fourth segment. The hind 

 margins of the abdominal segments are dark, not whitish 

 hyaline as they are in T. orchidarum, Ckll., and other 

 African species. 



Hob. Madagascar. British Museum, 95. 21. 



For other species of this genus see Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., April 1908, p. 343. " T. orthonnce" as there given, is 

 a misprint for T. othonnce. Friese (1909) has added a species 

 T. sjostedti, described under Diagonozus. 



LXVIII. — Descriptions of a new Hawk-Moth and some new 

 Syntomidas. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D. 



I. Meganoton hyloicoides, sp. n. 



At first sight this insect resembles a giant Hyloicus francki. 



$ . Palpi cinnamon-brown mixed with grey ; head and 

 tegulas black, bordered with dark cinnamon-rufous; thorax 

 and patagia pale yellowish brown, with a broad central 

 black band ; abdomen rufous-cinnamon, with brown central 

 band and darker edges to segments. Fore wing : base bufFy 

 brown, basal third blackish brown, with five or six irregular 

 dark maroon and grey transverse zigzag bands ; rest of wing 

 rufous-cinnamon, with irregular white, maroon, and grey 

 bands and patches ; a large apico-costal sooty patch. Hind 

 wing: inner three-fourths cinnamon-brown, with indistinct 

 black patches near inner area ; outer fourth black powdered 

 with yellowish grey ; fringe cinnamon-rufous mixed with 

 whitish. 



