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deepened to an obscure marginal blackish band. The inner angle 

 curved above with niveous scales. 



Honduras and Brazil. 



Clemens. 



3. P. resumens Walker, p. 190. 



Fawn color, paler beneath. Abdomen with a black band on 

 each of the three l)asal segments ; the four following segments 

 with two black spots on each. Fore wings with several undu- 

 lating transverse brown lines, with a brown discal dot, and with 

 three brown dots near the interior angle ; exterior border cinereous. 

 Hind wings paler, with a black discal stripe, which is connected 

 at the tip of the wings with a black marginal stripe. Length of 

 the body IT — 18 lines; of the wings 40 — 42 lines, 



Var. j3. — Cinereous brown. Hind wings dull pale fawn color, 



greenish toward the base. 



S. America ; Honduras ; "West Indies. 



Clemens. 



4. P. inconspicua Walker, p. 190. 



Fawn-color, testaceous beneath. Abdomen with two rows of 



black dots, and toward the base with two interrupted black bands. 



Fore wings with three undulating oblique blackish lines, a little 



darker between the third line and the extei'ior border. Hind 



wings a little paler than the fore wings, with two dark brown 



stripes, the one discal, the other marginal ; a brown undulating 



line between them. Length of the body 21 lines ; of the wings 



48 lines, 



Jamaica. 



Clemens. 



MACROSILA Walker. 



Size large, or very large, body thick and long. The head is 

 large, free and advanced ; the front very broad and long, taper- 

 ing but little to the tips of the palpi ; the eyes very large and 

 salient; the antennoj clavato-prismatic, with a short hook and seta; 

 the palpi very thick and ascending, and pressed against the front ; 

 the tongue twice or nearly twice the length of the body, or about 

 one-tldrd longer. The thorax is large and thick, somewhat rounded 



