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Show 1875.] SPECIES OF SPHlNGIDcE. 249 pect: there is an example of this species in the British Museum, without a locality, presented by Mr. Doubleday. 28. CHCEROCAMPA BISTRIGATA, n. sp. Closely allied G. clotho; differs in the narrower primaries, blacker and narrower secondaries, with more pinky pale anal area, and the abdomen not black-specked, but with two pale parallel central longitudinal lines : underside as in pale examples of C. clotho. Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. Java (Horsfield). Colls. F. Moore and B.M. 29. CHCEROCAMPA GONOGRAPTA, n. sp. Allied to C. clotho : primaries varying from dove-colour to pale greenish, external area dotted with blackish scales, densely at apex; a nebulous darkish spot beyond cell; a black interno-basal tuft; the outermost oblique line of C. clotho indicated and dotted upon the nervures with blackish, but differing from that line in all the allied species in running nearly parallel to the outer margin as far as the subcostal fork, whence it is only continued very obliquely to apex in the form of the blackish apical scales mentioned above ; innermost line sometimes present, but ill-defined; a black dot on lower discocellular nervure: secondaries with the whole outer margin broadly bordered with pinky whitish : body and underside as in very pale examples of C. clotho. Bombay and S. India. Type, coll. F. Moore. 30. CHCEROCAMPA MINOR, n. sp. Nearly allied to C. lineosa, but having the general aspect of the C. clotho group: it differs from C. lineosa in its smaller size, delicate buff coloration, with less strongly defined oblique lines on primaries ; the secondaries brown instead of black, with the discal band diffused, and the outer margin very pale brown; the body more uniform, marked with slightly paler but not whitish streaks; wings below creamy ochreous, mottled with flesh-colonr, with the usual brown markings ill-defined. Expanse of wings 3 inches 6 lines. Massuri (Hutton). Type, coll. Moore. I have no hesitation whatever in placing this as a well marked and distinct species between the C. clotho and C. lineosa groups. 31. CHCEROCAMPA MAJOR, n. sp. Nearly allied to C. lineosa, but larger, the dark oblique band of primaries and the pale discal band of secondaries much broader, and the other markings better defined ; a well-defined central thoracic pale streak ; wings below generally redder; the oblique lines better defined and more continuous. Expanse of wings 4 inches 5 lines. Darjeeling (coll. Moore) ; Silhet. B.M. I have very little doubt that this is a distinct species ; it has a totally different aspect to C. lineosa, although agreeing with it in the arrangement of its markings. |