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fhoottlp ^nttftuologual Jfaoetg. 



VOL. IV. BROOKLYN, MAY, 1881. No. 1. 



Descriptions of New Lepidoptera. 



By Fred. Tepper. 



Sphinx Albescens, new. sp. Fig. j. 



Expanse 2% inches. Head light grey; antennae white above, dark grey 

 beneath; collar and shoulder covers whitish grey, the latter heavily edged 

 with black inwardly; Thorax deep blackish grey; abdomen grey with a 

 black dorsal line, sides banded white and black; beneath uniform dark 

 grey, with a black ventral line; legs grey. 



Primaries grey, shaded with cinereous white along costa from base 

 for about half of the wing; a rather heavy black apical line, and one near 

 outer margin, the first shaded inwardly and the last outwardly with whitish 

 grey, between these lines and the light costal field are several black streaks. 

 Underside grey, powdered with white along costa, at apex and outer mar- 

 gin; the black apical line is reproduced, and there is a wavy dark line. 

 double at inner margin, and bordered outwardly with whitish grew 



Secondaries white at base, followed by a narrow black band, then a 

 narrow white one, both drawn to a sharp point at anal angle; beyond 

 this is a heavy black band shaded with grey towards exterior margin. Un- 

 derside much as above, but the bands and shadings are not so heavy. 



Fringes of all wings grey. 



One male from Colorado, taken by Mr. H. K. Morrison, in my coll. 



This species is allied to "Vashti, Strecker." but the dark thorax and 

 the peculiar formation of the bands on secondaries will suffice to easily 

 distinguish it.. 



