1875. | MR. A. G. BUTLER ON SPHINGID®. 621 
8. Descriptions of several new Species of Sphingide. 
By Arruvr G. Butter, F.E.S., F-Z.S., &e: 
[Received October 20, 1875.] 
Genus: Proserrinus, Hiibner. 
1. PRosERPINUS . NOTHEROIDES, 0. sp. 
Size, form, and pattern of P. enothere, but the primaries greyish 
white, with the band and subapical spot dull brownish ochreous, and 
the external area yellowish olivaceous ; black band of secondaries 
rather narrower ; body grey, with the crest, middle of collar, tegulee, 
and dorsum ochraceous ; antenne shorter: wings below paler, with 
all the markings ochraceous or yellowish olivaceous instead of olive- 
green ; fringe of primaries and discoidal area brown : expanse of wings 
1 inch 10 lines. 
Brazil. Type, B.M. 
If we had not obtained this from a collection of Brazilian Sphinges, 
and labelled “Brazil,” I should have considered it merely a pale 
variety of P. wnothere@ ; as it is, I can only consider it a geographi- 
cal form of that species, 
Genus Lopuura, Walker. 
1. LopHURA HIMACHALA, n. sp. 
Allied to L. masuriensis, differs as follows :—altogether darker, 
the primaries with a black waved band from just beyond the end of 
the cell to the outer margin, where it expands and curves downwards 
to the external angle ; an irregular external black marking from apex 
to first projection of outer margin; all the pale markings obsolete ; 
secondaries with the outer border blacker and slightly narrower ; outer 
margin waved, but not undulated ; expanse of wings | inch 8 lines, 
N.E. Himalayas (Farr). Type, coll. F. Moore. 
2. LopHurA SANGAICA, n. sp. 
Also allied to L. masuriensis ; primaries much browner; a large 
slightly paler area, bordered by a blackish line, situated upon the 
inner margin; the dark line runs from external angle in a curve to 
end of cell, and then obliquely downwards to the middle of the inner 
margin ; all the pale markings obsolete ; secondaries with the external 
border more uniformly dark brown, not undulated, only half the width, 
not reaching the anal angle, but terminating in a small blackish spot ; 
body greyish, markings not defined : expanse of wings 1 inch 7 
lines. 
Shanghai. Type, coll. F. Moore. 
3. LopHuRA EREBINA, n. sp. 
Nearly allied to the preceding, differs from L. masuriensis as fol- 
lows :—primaries blackish brown, black transverse lines less distinct, 
pale markings obsolete ; secondaries with outer border much darker, 
