1875.) SPECIES OF SPHINGIDE. 259 
pale streak divided by a median grey line; wings below paler, 
primaries redder and secondaries whiter at base; thorax below 
whitish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. 
Q. Altogether darker than D. obscura 2; the patch on disco- 
cellulars, the apical patch, and the external border of primaries 
silvery grey, rendering the species much like a small example of D. 
omphalee ; the secondaries, body, and under surface differ as in the 
3. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. 
Haiti (Tweedie). Type, B.M. 
Genus Proroparce, Burmeister. 
53. PROTOPARCE GRISEATA, 0. Sp. 
Nearly allied to P. carolina, but the primaries, head, and thorax 
greenish, the transverse lines on primaries more oblique and irregular ; 
secondaries whitish, crossed at base by a blackish bar, not reaching 
costa, a central irregular blackish bar, forking internally from sub- 
median to subcostal nervure ; a broad brown border to outer margin, 
blackish internally, whitish externally, and intersected towards anal 
angle by a whitish litura; thorax without a blackish collar or 
blackish margins to pterygodes ; abdomen with six lateral decreasing 
more or less oval orange spots: primaries below somewhat like P. 
carolina, paler, only two transverse dusky discal bars, marginal area 
whitish; secondaries sordid white, costa and a submarginal band 
smoizy brown; two central brown lines, widely diverging towards 
costa, the outer one strongly dentate; body below greyish brown. 
Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 
Venezuela (Dyson). Type, B.M. 
Genus PsruposrHinx, Burmeister. 
54. PsreuDOsPHINX CYRTOLOPHIA, 0. sp. 
Very close to P. nyctiphanes, much smaller, paler, and more 
ochraceous in tint, transverse pale band near base of primaries more 
regular, dark band beyond cell more incurved and less expanded at 
costa ; apex paler, scarcely marked with darker spots ; secondaries 
with the series of pale spots less yellow, much further from outer 
margin, whitish fringe less perceptible ; wings below altogether 
paler, markings on primaries less distinct. Expanse of wings 
3 inches 4 lines. 
Madras. Type, coll. F. Moore. 
The larva of this species is pale pink, with oblique lateral diffused 
green stripes, margined below with white, and a dorsal white line. 
It has a conical hump on the neck ; and the horn, especially in the 
young stages, is long and slightly tending to recurve at the tip. 
Genus Doxa, Walker. 
55. DoLBA HARTWEGII, N. Sp. 
Dolba hyleus (part), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 230, specimens 
tig (1856). 
Primaries above smoky brown; a whity brown subbasal undu- 
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