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Show 1875.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON SPHINGID.E. 621 8. Descriptions of several new Species of Sphingidce. By A R T H U R G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Received October 20, 1875.] Genus PROSERPINUS, Hiibner. 1. PROSERPINUS ^NOTHEROIDES, n. sp. Size, form, and pattern of P. cenotheree, but the primaries greyish white, with the band and subapical spot dull brownish ochreous, and the external area yellowish olivaceous ; black band of secondaries rather narrower; body grey, with the crest, middle of collar, tegulae, and dorsum ochraceous ; antennse shorter: wings below paler, with all the markings ochraceous or yellowish olivaceous instead of olive-green ; fringe of primaries and discoidal area brown : expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. Brazil. Type, B.M. If we had not obtained this from a collection of Brazilian Sphinges, and labelled " Brazil," I should have considered it merely a pale variety of P. cenotheree; as it is, I can only consider it a geographical form of that species. Genus LOPHURA, Walker. 1. LOPHURA HIMACHALA, n. sp. Allied to L. masuriensis, differs as follows:-altogether darker, the primaries with a black waved band from just beyond the end of the cell to the outer margin, where it expands and curves downwards to the external angle; an irregular external black marking from apex to first projection of outer margin; all the pale markings obsolete ; secondaries with the outer border blacker and slightly narrower ; outer margin waved, but not undulated; expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. N.E. Himalayas (Farr). Type> coll. F- Moore. 2. LOPHURA SANGAICA, n. sp. Also allied to L. masuriensis; primaries much browner; a large slightly paler area, bordered by a blackish line, situated upon the inner margin; the dark line runs from external angle in a curve to end of cell, and then obliquely downwards to the middle of the inner margin ; all the pale markings obsolete ; secondaries with the external border more uniformly dark brown, not undulated, only half the width, not reaching the anal angle, but terminating in a small blackish spot; body greyish, markings not defined: expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. Shanghai. Type, coll. F. Moore. 3. LOPHURA EREBINA, n. sp. Nearly allied to the preceding, differs from L. masuriensis as follows :-primaries blackish brown, black transverse lines less distinct, pale markings obsolete; secondaries with outer border much darker, |