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tribus obliquis obscurioribus ex parte purpureo-cinereo mar- 

 ginatis, 2a maculam nigram includente, 2a Saque apud costam 

 connexis, 3a marginally macula costali fusca cinereo marginata, 

 annulis duobus connexis cinereis ; posticce lineis tribus obscu- 

 rioribus indistinctis . 



Male. Ochraceous fawn-colour. Head ochraceous-cinereous, 

 with a broad brown band in front of the base of the antennae. Palpi 

 deep red, with cinereous tips. Antennae very minutely pubescent. 

 Thorax with a blackish spot on each side of the hind border. Ab- 

 domen with an elongated brown spot on each side of the sixth seg- 

 ment. Fore wings acute, subfalcate, with three irregular oblique 

 deeper coloured bands, which are partly and diffusedly bordered 

 with purplish cinereous; first baud before the middle; second beyond 

 the middle, containing a black spot near the interior border, dilated 

 along the costa to the tip and thereby connected with the third 

 band, which is marginal ; a brown cinereous-bordered spot on the 

 costa at one-fifth of the length, opposite to two irregular connected 

 cinereous ringlets, which are near the interior border. Hind wings 

 with three indistinct darker lines, which are continuations of the 

 bands on the fore wings. Wings beneath deep ochraceous towards 

 the exterior border. Length of the body 20 lines ; of the wings 

 48 lines. 



Ternate. Iu Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus DAPHNUSA. 

 Daphnusa orbifera. 

 orbifera, Wlk. Proc. Lin. Soc. vi. 85. 

 Borneo. 



Genus SMERINTHUS. 



Smerinthus Kindermannii. 

 Kindermaunii, Ld. Z. B V. 1852, 22. 



Smerinthus opthalmicus. 

 ophthalmicus, Bd. A. 8. E. F. Sme Ser. iii. xxxii. 

 California. 



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