NOVITATBS ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



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CORRECTIONS OF AND ADDITIONS TO OUR 

 "REVISION OP THE SPHINGIDAU:' 



By LORD ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and De. K. JORDAN. 



(With 3 Text-figures.) 



1. Polyptychic draconis spec. nov. (text-fig. 1) 



cf. P. trilineato siuiilis, magis grisesceas, alis fortius deutatis, auticis apice 

 augustiore, lineis duabus externis modice sed distincte incurvatis haud angulatis; 

 alis subtus ut in P. trilineato duabus lineis fuscis notatis, liuea prima in ala antica 

 obsoleseente, secunda tenuissima extus albo-griseo deterrninata. 



Al. aut. long. : 56 mm. 



Hab. " Thibet " (verisimiliter China occidentalis), specimen unicum a dorn. 

 E. Le Moult communicatum. 



Text-fig. 1. — Polyptychus draconis. 



. The general colour is a mixture of ashy grey and fuscous, without the luteous 

 and purplish tints of P. trilineatus Moore (188S). 



Palpus rather smaller than in P. trilineatus. The apex of the forewing more 

 produced, the dentition of the outer margin more prominent (as is also the case in 

 the hindwing), and the hindmargin rather more deeply incurved before the angle; 

 the lines placed as in P. trilineatus, but the dark shade situated outside the first 

 line not separated from the line by a pale interspace, the two discal lines evenly 

 incurved from costal to hindmargin, almost parallel, the outer line more conspicuously 

 bordered with grey, not excurved, the fuscous diffuse marginal patch below the 

 apex extending to -tooth R 3 . Hindwing fuscous along abdominal margin, otherwise 

 ashy grey, palest costally ; a whitish grey line extends from anal angle forward. 



On the underside the external fuscous line of both wings very thin, being 



