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small spurs. Wings moderately long, rather broad ; fore wings 

 with three inferior veins. 



1. D. vinosa Drury. Ex. Ins. I, 47, pi. 23, f. 4. Sphinx vinosa Drury 

 App. 4. 



Wings grayish-diaphanous. Fore wings with the anterior and 

 posterior margin reddish-yellow, with a large external spot, white 

 in the middle margined with black. Hind wings, fern., with a 

 submarginal reddish-yellow band. 



Jamaica. 



WALKER. 



Group Lauroii. 

 Lauron Walker, 333. 



Body cylindrical, linear, slender, rather long. Palpi straight, 

 porrect, as long as the head ; third joint acuminated, nearly one- 

 third of the length of the second. Antennae closely pectinated ; 

 branches of moderate length in the male, very short in the female. 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings in both sexes 

 or not extending beyond them in the females of some species. 

 Legs very slender ; fore tibiae not dentated ; hind tibise with two 

 very minute apical spurs. Wings long,, rather broad, more or less 

 hyaline ; three inferior veins. 



1. D. ergolis Walker, 335. 



Black. Thorax and the costa of the fore wings along the basal 

 half and a short, oblique band, red: Fore wings with the disk at 

 the base subhyaline, an abbreviated, oblique band near the tip, 

 white. 



Jamaica. 



WALKER. 



CHRYSAUGE HIJBNEK. 



Group Flavinia. 

 Plavinia Walker, 369. 



Body slender,' of moderate length, nearly linear and cylindrical. 

 Palpi porrect, shorter than the head ; third joint acuminated, less 

 than one-third of the length of the second. Antenna? of the male 

 deeply pectinated, of the female simple. Abdomen hardly extend- 



