1886. ] MR. W. F. KIRBY ON RARE SPHINGID. 271 
in A. eos and the fore wings paler yellow at the base; the black 
discoidal spot is less strongly marked, and is followed by three short 
dusky lines on the costa; the hind margin is grey in the middle, 
bordered by a suffused blackish line running from the tip to the 
anal angle; on the inner margin, within the anal angle, is a short 
curved blackish line ; nearer the base the inner margin is reddish. 
Hind wings beneath with a black spot at the end of the cell, and 
three obsolete greenish lines beyond (the middle most obscure), 
terminating in a black blotch, on which stands a yellowish-white 
spot, the two seen above having become united beneath. 
The wings are rather less falcate than in A. eos, and the hind wings 
have only one tooth within the anal angle. 
The example of this species was received by the Dublin Museum 
as “ Ambulyx lycidas, Brazil;”’ but M. C. Oberthiir of Rennes, 
who has kindly compared the figure with the type of that species 
(described by Boisduval, Lép. Hét. i. p. 191) from Brazil, informs 
me that the outline of the wings (which I have reproduced here from 
his sketch, Plate XX VII. fig. A) is very different. 
4. PROTOPARCE ABADONNA. (Plate XXVII. fig. 3.) 
Sphinx abadonna, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 435 (1798). 
Protoparce abadonna, Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 238. 
Sphinw godarti, Macl. King’s Survey of Coasts of Australia, ii. 
p- 463 (1827). 
I am glad to have an opportunity of figuring this species, from a 
specimen from Queensland in the Dublin Museum ; it is singular that 
it has not yet been obtained for the British Museum. It is quite 
distinct from the common Australian P. distans, Butl. Macleay’s 
description is so good as to render it unnecessary to redescribe the 
species here. I believe it to be P. abadonna, described by 
Fabricius from the East Indies, and I therefore retain his name 
provisionally, though I do not feel quite so certain of the correctness 
of this identification. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. 
Fig. 1. Ambulyx eos, 3, p. 269. 
2. —— tithonus, sp. n., p. 270. 
3. Protoparce abadonna, p. 271. 
A. Outline of wing of Ambulyx lycidas, p. 271. 
