( 454 ) 



f i|i of mesial lobe chestnut. On nndersiile the palpus (irearay wliite, breast and first 

 three aliilominal sternites maize-yellow, paler than in E. cornis, this colour extcndinjr 

 on to the lower etl^e of the ter>,Mtes, rest of alidomen jiale chestnut, the sternites of 

 segments 5 ami >> bearing a yellowish spot towards each side. 



AVings, above. Forewing narrower and longer tlian in K. sdyra, black-brown, 



plumbeous between the lines ; seven black-brown transverse lines between base 

 and vein M' ; lines 2 and 3 and again (! and 7 more or less fuse<l, this last double 

 line nearly straight ; a stigma similar to an inverted comma, witii a dot in front 

 of it ; on disc o parallel, somewhat dentate, S-siiaped lines, jiartly ed'aced between 

 K' and S.M-, where the wing is paler brown and is fluslied with i)lumbeon3 ; 

 the fiftli line broad, being narrowed before R' ; a subraarginal line, which runs 

 from the apical angle of the wing to the hinder angle, joins the fifth discal one 

 before W, and is coincident with it from tliere to hind angle ; outer margin a little 



more convex in centre than in saf/ra. Hindwing brownish black ; a greenish 



)-ellow central band broader than in mf/ra, much paler than in rorniit ; a slight 

 admarginal line and a similar sulimarginal one jilumbeous, a third line indicated 

 behind; fringe creamy buff, yellow at anal angle. 



Underside pale hazel. Basal half of forewing blackish, shaded with yellowish ; 

 on disc two brown dentate lines in S-shape and a third faint one between tliem ; 



a faint undulate line from apex, joining outer discal line at R-. Hindwing from 



base to anal angle maize-yellow, this colour gradually fading away towards disc ; 

 three brown lines in enter half, the first in middle, nearly straight, the second and 

 third cuived costad and slightly dentate. 



Length of forewing : ;U mm. 



1 c? from Allianca. At once distinguished from F.. corrits by the ]iale tint of 

 the baud of the hindwing and the breast, and the numerous brown-black lines on 

 the npperside of the forewing. 



43. Sesia ceculus Cram. (1"7). 



H. c, R. & J., Rer'iHion p. 423. n. •M<i (l'J03). 

 Five large and two small Si. 



44. Sesia fadus Cram. (ITTa). 

 S.f., R. & J., Revision p. 437. n. 373 (IHO:!). 

 Three worn cJcJ. 



45. Pholus auchemolus ('ram. (177'.»). 



I\ .(., R. & J., Rerisinii p. 47S. n. 404 (I'.Hi:!). 



One pair. 



■iC>. Pholus satellitia licaon Cram. (1775). 



J'. ,v. /., R. ^ J., Iln-i.siu„ p. 482. n. 4UG. .■ (1'.I03). 



4 <SS. 



47. Xylophanes schausi serenus subsp. nov. 



Xi/liijihanes scluiiini, R. & J., Uerixinn p. <iSG. n. ('>32 (l'J03) (partiin ; Venezuela). 



The olivaceous subraarginal patch between the radials on the up])erside of 

 the forewing very slightly indicated, while it is ]irominent in the southern form, 

 A'. «. schausi from Brazil fRio, Espiritu Santo). 



