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Show 1886.] MR. W. F. K I R B Y O N R A R E SPHINGID^E. 271 in A. eos and the fore wings paler yellow at the base; the black discoidal spot is less strongly marked, and is followed by three short dusky lines on the costa; the hind margin is grey in the middle, bordered by a suffused blackish line running from the tip to the anal angle ; on the inner margin, within the anal angle, is a short curved blackish line ; nearer the base the inner margin is reddish. Hind wings beneath with a black spot at the end of the cell, and three obsolete greenish lines beyond (the middle most obscure), terminating in a black blotch, on which stands a yellowish-white spot, the two seen above having become united beneath. The wings are rather less falcate than in A. eos, and the hind wings have only one tooth within the anal angle. The example of this species was received by the Dublin Museum as " Ambulyx lycidas, Brazil; " but M . C. Oberthur of Rennes, who has kindly compared the figure with the type of that species (described by Boisduval, Lep. Het. i. p. 191) from Brazil, informs me that the outline of the wings (which I have reproduced here from his sketch, Plate XXVII. fig. A ) is very different. 4. PROTOPARCE ABADONNA. (Plate XXVII. fig. 3.) Sphinx abadonna, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 435 (1798). Protoparce abadonna, Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 238. Sphinx godarti, Macl. King's Survey of Coasts of Australia, ii. p. 463 (1827). I am glad to have an opportunity of figuring this species, from a specimen from Queensland in the Dublin Museum ; it is singular that it has not yet been obtained for the British Museum. It is quite distinct from the common Australian P. distans, Butl. Macleay's description is so good as to render it unnecessary to redescribe the species here. I believe it to be P. abadonna, described by Fabricius from the East Indies, and I therefore retain his name provisionally, though I do not feel quite so certain of the correctness of this identification. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. Fig. 1. Ambulyx eos, $, p. 269. 2. tithonus, sp. n., p. 270. 3. Protoparce abadonna, p. 271. A. Outline of wing of Ambulyx lycidas, p. 271. |