Sphingidae 
primaries and the absence of the pale color on the outer margin 
of the shoulder lappets, which is characteristic of E. obscura. It 
is also considerably larger than E. obscura. 
There remains one other closely allied species in this group, 
to which Cramer gave the name caicus, and which occurs 
occasionally in Florida. The body is marked like E. ello, the fore 
wings are dark with longitudinal paler stripes, the secondaries 
are red as in E. crameri, but almost wholly without the dark 
border found in that species, it being replaced by a series 
of dark stripes running inwardly from the border toward the 
middle of the wing. For this species, hitherto associated 
with the preceding in the genus Dilophonoia , Rothschild & 
Jordan have erected the genus Grammodia , upon structural 
grounds. 
Genus PACHYLIA Walker 
This is a small genus, containing four species, of which one 
occurs in our territory. It is not likely to be confounded with 
anything else. 
(i) Pachylia ficus Linnaeus, Plate III, Fig. 12, ?. (The 
Fig Sphinx.) 
Syn. crameri M6n6tri4s; lyncea Clemens; venezuelensis Schaufuss; 
undatifascia Butler; aterrima Bonninghausen. 
This great hawkmoth, which is very common in Central and 
South America, occurs sparingly in Florida and Texas. 
Genus HEMEROPLANES Hubner 
This small genus, the species of which may at once be 
detected by the silvery spots of the fore wings, being the 
only American genus of sphingids thus adorned, is characteris¬ 
tically neotropical. It is represented in our fauna by a single 
species. 
( 1 ) Hemeroplanes parce Fabricius, Plate III, Fig. 8, $. 
(The Silver-spotted Sphinx.) 
Syn. licastus Stoll; galianna Burmeister. 
The figure given on our plate is sufficiently accurate to make 
a verbal description unnecessary. The insect occurs in southern 
Florida in the vicinity of Biscayne Bay, and ranges thence south¬ 
ward over the Antilles into South America. 
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