( 5G ) 



sliglitly lHMil<r(l. iidintcil, l(iiit:itiiilin;illy imiiress('(l IVoui tip to iniddio on the ventral 

 side (I'l. X.W'll. f. 4J;, llu' cilj^es of tlic jl;i(iov(! iiotelied, ending jiroximally in 

 a tootli-Iike ridge, l)efbre wliieli (at proximal side) there is a larger nnmber of 

 hairs ; sternifc wifli a long, cnrved, mesial lobe, which is gradually narrowed to 

 a ])oint (X/'), tlie sulxlorso-lateral edge of the st.ernite is somewhat recurved, 

 forming a fohl vvliicli hears some hairs. Tlie clasper is not larger than in 

 lucifcr, differing obviously in size from that of antat'iis and duponchcl ; harpe 

 ventrally produced into a distal process, somewhat as in Amphimoea n-nlkeyi, this 

 process slightly spatulate, (lie upper edge of the harpe not dentate, but jiroximally 

 divitled into two low ridges (I'l. XXXVII. f. In); there is no conspicuous dense 

 tuft of bristles on I he liaijic or near it. I'enis-sheath produced into an apical lobe 

 (the tip of which is broken oil' in the only cj dissected) ; there is no tooth ; before 

 end we find another lobe (PI. XXIX. f In) which ])oints proximad, but dues not 

 project beyond edge ; the sheath protrudes from a short ]ienis-funnel, which is 

 collar-like, open ventrally, clothed witii minute hairs, and bears dorsally a strongly 

 chitinised flat process which luirrovvs distally and is truncate-sinuate at the end. 



?. Vaginal plate (PI. XIX. f. 9) resembling that of T'. lucifer to a certain 

 extent ; the opening of the vagina is free, the proximal and lateral edges raised 

 in a semicircle ; behind the aperture, within the semicircular wall, stands a fold 

 or elongate tubercle at each side; the ajierture is less distal in position than in 

 lucifer, but much more distal than in (ixtacus. 



Larva and chrysalis not known. 



Ilah. Nicaragua to Kio de Janeiro, probably in all suitable localities in tropical 

 continental America. 



In the Tring Museum 1 c? from Espiiitu tSauto, and 1 i and 1 ? without 

 locality (from (jernjan dealers). 



33. Cocytius duponchel. 



Amphonii.r dupniicliil Poey, Ciiit. Lrp. CiiIki texte &- f. 4 (I8.'52) ; Grote & Rob., P;-oc. Eiit. Soc. 



Phihiil. V. p. G7 (1865) (Cuba); id., Ic. vi. p. 329 (18GG) ; Butl., Trans. Zu„l. Soc. Loml. i.\. 



p. 599. D. 1 (1877) (Haiti ; J.imaica) ; Gundl, Cvntr. Eiit. Cuhiiiia p. 207 (1881) (I. on Aiwiia <t- 



Bocageii). 

 Macrosila jatnijihae. Walker, Lixl hep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 200. n. 4 (1850) (partim) ; Clem., Juiini. 



Ac. Sc. Phil,,,!, iv. p. 1G2. n. 54 (1859) (partim). 

 AiHjjhionyx{l) (hi/nim-heJii (!), Lucas, in Sagra, //(.s7. Cuba vii. p. 299 (185G). 

 MacrnnHa dnp,m,-hel, Herrich-Sch., Ctrre^K Bl. p. 59 (1865) (Cuba). 

 Amjihomjx (/oihirli Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. IlH.i. p. 05. n. 4(1875) (Minas Geraes ? :— coll. 



Charle.s Oberthiir) ; Schau.=, Eiit. News vi. p. 142 (1895) (= (ijlfinis). 

 *Amphonyx ihqmiwhelii ( !), Boisduval, I.e. n. 5 (1875) (Cuba, (J) ; Drune, Biul. Cenlr. Aiiiei:, Lep. 



Net. i. p. 17. n. 1 (1881) (Chiriqui , Haiti ; Jamaica ; Cuba; Trinidad) ; Pitt. & Bioll, Lep. 



lift. Costa Tt!,„ p. 11 (1897). 

 *Amphon!/.c ri,;,l„ris Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 11. n. 22 (1875) (Ega, ^ :— Mu.s. Brit.). 

 Cocylm.igodaiti, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 680. n. 5 (1892) (cit. partim). 

 C'oojtius duponchdii (!), id., I.e. n. 8 (1892) (Antilles) ; Rothsch.,NoV.Z(>OL.;i. p. 541 (1894) (Aroa); 



Bonningh., Iris -xii. p. 113. n. 12 (1899) (Rio de J.aneiro ; rare). 

 *Cucytius afinh Rothschild, Nov. Zooi,. i. p. 92 (1894) (C. Amer. ; Venezuela ;— Mus. Tring) ; id.. 



I.e. p. 541 (1894) (Aroa). 



(??. The commonest si)ecies of the genus. "We cannot find any diiference 

 between West Indian and Continental specimens. The black discal dashes R-'— M'- 

 of the forewing are not prominent. The dirty white stigma is transverse, kidney- 

 shaped. The trausjiarent space II' — R- of the hindwing is, at R', shorter than the 



black niaryiiiiil Ixirder is broad. 



