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border. Hind wings rounded at the tips, slightly denticulated along 

 the exterior border. 



12. Smerinthus Dumolinii. 



Cervinus ; antennae albce ; caput supra atrum ; thorax sexcristatus, 

 disco interrupte atro ; alee anticce ex parte fuscce, fascia apud 

 marginem exterior em indeterminata interrupta obscure fusca, 

 lineis quatuor obliquis (exterioribus undulatis) albidis fusco 

 marginatis, plaga maxima costali nigro-fusca, gutta maculaque 

 trif areata discalibus albis ; postica fasciis duabus obscuriori- 

 bus, macula subapicali fusca. 



Sphinx Dumolinii, Guer. Icon. Regne Anim. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Group 2. 



Corpus crassum. Proboscis obsoleta. Palpi validi, subarcuati, 

 breviusculi, caput paullo superantes. Antennae setaceae, subsim- 

 plices, vix serratae, thorace non longiores. Abdomen thorace vix 

 duplo longius. Pedes validi ; tibia? posticae calcaribus duobus par- 

 vis apicaiibus. Alas longae, mediocriter latae ; anticae apud costam 

 rectas, vix acuminata?, margine exteriore denticulato perobliquo ; 

 posticae apice rotundatae, margine interiore subdenticulato. 



Male. Body thick. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi stout, slightly 

 curved, rather short, but extending a little beyond the head. An- 

 tennae setaceous, hardly serrate, almost simple, not longer than the 

 thorax. Abdomen almost twice the length of the thorax. Legs 

 stout; hind tibiae with two small apical spurs. Wings long, mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings straight in front, hardly acuminated, very 

 oblique and distinctly denticulated along the exterior border; inte- 

 rior border concave towards the interior angle ; inferior veins much 

 as usual. Hind wings rounded at the tips, slightly denticulated 

 along the exterior border. 



13. Smerinthus Dyras. 



Cervinus ; thorax linea media necnon strigis duabus transversis 

 duabusque obliquis f err ugineis ; abdomen linea dorsali fusca ; 

 alee anticce lineis decern variis transversis strigaque discali fus- 

 cis necnon macula postica obscure fusca, linea 8o valde undu- 

 lata ; posticce ferruginece, apud unguium interiorem cervince 

 maculis duabus obscure fuscis. 



Smerinthus Dyras, MSS. 



