BATRACHARTA. SPHINGOMORPHA. 
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Genus B ATR ACHARTA. 
Type. 
Batracharta, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc.. Zool. vi. p. 196 
(1802) obliqua, Walk. 
OaHssa,, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool.vii. p. 168 (1864) cossoides, Walk. 
Pilosocrures , Hmpsn. 111. Lop. Het. B.M. viii. p. 85 
(1891) variegata, Hmpsn. 
Batracharta chinensis, n. sp. 
Batracharta cossoides, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 537 (nec Walk.). 
$• Head and thorax brown suffused with purple-grey ; 
pectus ochreous white ; legs reddish brown, the hind legs 
with ochreous white mixed, the tarsi dark brown ringed with 
white ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous 
white at base. Fore wing brown suffused with purple-grey, 
irrorated and the terminal area striated with dark brown ; 
postmedial line rather indistinct, dark-brown, excurved at 
veins 6 and 4 and incurved at discal fold, below vein 4 curved 
downwards, then upwards to lower end of cell, then oblique 
to imier margin before middle ; a series of slight whitish points 
on terminal half of costa. Hind wing reddish brown, the costal 
area whitish to beyond middle ; cilia white slightly tinged with 
red-brown. Underside ochreous white suffused with brown 
except on costal area and termen of fore wing ; hind wing 
with brown suffusion on postmedial area except towards 
costa and large brown discoidal spot. 
Hab. C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 $ type. Exp. 40 
millim. 
Genus SPHINGOMORPHA. 
Type. 
Sphingomorpha, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 220 (1852) chlorea, Cram. 
Ogocia, Holl. Entom. xxv. Suppl. p. 95 (1892) tavetensis, Holl. 
Sphingomorpha hesperia, n. sp. 
E- Head and thorax pale grey- brown with broad red-brown 
stripe on upper half of tegulse and patagia edged dorsally by 
blackish ; antennae black-brown ; palpi chocolate-brown at 
base ending obliquely at middle of 2nd joint, the 3rd joint 
with three black rings ; tarsi black-brown ; abdomen grey- 
brown dorsally suffused with red -brown and with diffused 
blackish brown subdorsal stripes and whitish dorsal marks 
on two basal segments, the extremity of ventral surface 
black-brown. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with rufous and 
irrorated and striated with blackish ; subbasal black striae 
below costa and cell ; an indistinct waved dark antemedial 
line, excurved below median nervure ; a black-brown streak 
with some pure white scales on it on medial part of inner 
margin ; an indistinct waved red-brown line from origin of 
vein 2 to inner margin ; a small elliptical rufous discoidal 
spot ; postmedial line on costal area only, black, strongly 
