434 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Sphingide. 
less distinct at apical third of costal area, two small ones upon 
the radial veins, and a short oblique dash at apex : seconda- 
ries smoky grey, striated (excepting upon the external border) 
with blackish and pale sandy brown; an ill-defined blackish 
stripe limiting the external border, and traces of a second ab- 
breviated stripe parallel to it upon the disk: body silvery 
grey ; sides of head and thorax white, tegule olivaceous ex- 
ternally ; sides of abdomen pinky whitish; antenna rose- 
pink. Wings and pectus below pale flesh-coloured, speckled 
with grey ; legs and venter whitish; antenne below ferrugi- 
nous. Expanse of wings 102 millim. 
Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). 
A very distinct and beautiful species, little resembling the 
New-World form (D. rhodocera) excepting in the colour of 
its antenne, but agreeing well in structure. 
6. Nephele anomala, sp. n. 
Primaries above golden brown towards the base, otherwise 
dark chocolate-brown ; a small black spot at the base of the 
cell, a basi-internal dusky spot; an oblique greyish oliva- 
ceous stripe, edged on both sides with silver, across the basal 
fourth, its upper extremity connected by a silver subcostal 
streak and the branches of this vein, which are also silvery, 
with a broad and slightly oblique stripe, which runs from the 
costa to the outer margin near external angle; this stripe is 
silvery white internally and pale green externally, and is 
ornamented from the first subcostal fork to the second median 
branch by dark lunate markings, of which the two infero- 
internal ones are black; an oblique undulated silvery-white 
line from the afore-mentioned stripe to apex, and all the veins 
beyond the stripe silvery: secondaries dark chocolate-brown, 
paler upon the costa; head and thorax chocolate-brown, a 
dorsal grey line; a whitish-bordered grey spot on each shoul- 
der ; abdomen olivaceous, clay-coloured at the sides. Prima- 
ries below dark chocolate-brown, costa clay-coloured ; exter- 
nal area somewhat lilacine; two abbreviated discal series of 
closely approximated white spots, the inner series consisting 
of three well-defined spots, the outer of four dots followed by 
a well-defined spot, and lastly by a smaller spot; two small 
white spots placed obliquely at apex: secondaries yellowish 
clay-coloured, darker towards outer margin; pectus cream- 
coloured ; Jegs reddish; venter white, crossed by yellowish 
stripes and speckled with dull blood-red. EHxpanse of wings 
47 millim. 
Aburi, Gold Coast (Z. T. Carter). 
This singular little species has the general coloration rather 
