new or rare SphingidoB. • 243 



Protoparce Dalica. 



Exp. nearly A\ in. Allied to Rustica, Fabr., but 

 the wings longer and narrower in proportion. Fore wings 

 brown, slightly dusted with grey, crossed with irregular 

 darker obsolete lines. Base and hind margin mottled 

 with whitish, a triangular whitish blotch on the costa, sur- 

 mounting a discoidal spot of the same colour; and another 

 white blotch near the tip. Hind wings dark brown, 

 greyish along the nervures, giving the wing the appear- 

 ance of being crossed by two obscure greyish bands. All 

 the fringes spotted with black and Avhite. Body nearly 

 as in P. Rustica. Underside of fore wings uniform brown, 

 the discoidal spot indicated, yellowish. Outside this are 

 two obscure darker transverse lines. Hind wings whitish 

 at base, and rather more dusted with grey than the fore 

 wings. Two transverse lines, more distinct than those 

 on the fore wings, the outermost on the hind wings corre- 

 sponding to the innermost on the fore wings. 



Canada. One specimen. 



Diludia Bethia. 



Exp. 3| — 4^ in. Allied to Casuarince, Walk. Fore 

 wings dusted with whitish-grey, fringes spotted with 

 black. Three more or less conspicuous darker stripes 

 (sometimes nearly obsolete), one within and one with- 

 out the black discoidal spot, the former considerably 

 angulated ; the third runs from the inner margin at two- 

 thirds from the base to the hind margin below the tip. 

 From the tip runs a very conspicuous black line, like a 

 black thread, nearly to the discoidal spot. Hind Avings 

 black, anal angle grey, fringes Avhite. Underside greyish- 

 white, more or less clouded with brown. Antennre white 

 above, brown beneath. Thorax greyish-white, with two 

 black dots behind. Abdomen brown, dusted with grey, 

 and with indications of a dark subapical, and broader 

 lateral stripes. Underside uniform whitish-grey. 



Queensland. Four specimens. 



Nephele Charoba. 



Exp. 3^ in. Allied to Densoi, Kef.; fore wings 

 uniform, silky brown, the hind margin marked off' less 

 broadly than in Densoi by a narrow greyish stripe, edged 

 within with black. A silvery discoidal crescent; an 



