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Si'veral nf tlic Ncot rojiii'iil Spliiix/idde were first descriljed i'rom tl]e small 

 islands of St. Christopher, Antigua, and St. (!ruz. We have not seen any 

 specimen from there. 



The four larger West Indian islands, ( !nlia, Haiti, Porto Rico, and Jamaica, are 

 not very difl'erent in their Sphingid fauna i'rom Central America, and agree closely 

 witli tliat of tiie Bahamas and Florida. They form together a West Indian dis- 

 trict, cliaracterised by the absence of many Neotro))ical species and the occurrence 

 of one genus and several species peculiar to them, besides several subspecies. 



Apart from Florida, which has a number of North American Sphiiujidae, 

 there is no Nearctic element in the district. An exjiloration of the Lejiidojiterous 

 fauna of Cuba and Haiti is a desideratum, the material in collections being 

 very scanty. The species (occurring are distributed as follows, those j)eculiar to 

 the district lieing marked with an asterisk (*). The subspecies in brackets are 

 given in the list to show the distribution of the species outside the district. 

 The North American species occurring in Florida are left out. 



