new Species of Lepidoptera. 157 
sienna-red, shading into blood-red towards the external bor- 
der, which is black-brown; abdominal area bright ochre- 
ous; three dark-brown stripes a little wider apart than in the 
preceding species: palpi and pectus ashy white; legs grey- 
brown; venter blood-red, irrorated with orange, with steel- 
blue scales along the posterior margins of the scales; anus 
brown. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 
New Britain. 
Although a broader-winged insect, the style of coloration 
in this species on both surfaces is very like that of M. cata- 
pyrrha. 
38. Phamphoschisma Godeffroyt, sp. n. 
Primaries above pale silvery brown, slightly clouded with 
olivaceous, crossed in the middle by a broad X-shaped dark 
olivaceous double belt, beyond which the disk, with the ex- 
ception of the apical area and a small patch at external angle, 
is of a still darker olivaceous colour ; an apical costal patch 
reddish olivaceous, only separated by a zigzag silvery line 
from a large irregular black-brown patch on the external bor- 
der: secondaries dark purplish brown, paler at base, crossed 
in the middle by a rather narrow bright ochreous band, its 
outer edge deeply incised below the first median branch; 
costal border greyish brown: body greyish brown; tegule 
reddish brown, with black margins and whitish fringe: ab- 
domen black at the sides, the three basal segments with 
ochreous spots, increasing in size and intensity from the 
base backwards ; posterior segments with reddish-orange 
lateral tufts; terminal segment with a white spot on each 
side along its anterior margin. Wings below brownish 
grey, the primaries shading into deep brick-red towards apex 
and upon the disk; a nearly straight central red-brown 
stripe and two parallel arched discal stripes of the same 
colour; external border olivaceous, the mner edge of it 
sprinkled with pale scales; extreme base cream-coloured : 
secondaries with a black spot before the middle of costa, from 
which runs the first of three equidistant dark-brown lines 
extending from the costal margin to the submedian vein; a 
fourth irregular submarginal line, terminating in a blackish 
anal border ; a broad ochreous patch on the abdominal area: 
body below deep flesh-coloured ; palpi dull white ; inner sur- 
face of legs very broadly fringed with long straw-coloured 
hairs ; centre of venter greyish. Hxpanse of wings 60 millim. 
Duke-of- York Island. | 
In my ‘ Revision of the Sphingide’ I regarded Rhampho- 
schisma as congeneric with JMacroglossa; and if M, trochilus 
