( 73 ) 



Tlie larva described in Vsychc II. p. 73 as curoUmi and generall_y referred to 

 that sjiecies is the lars'a of qainqaemnculatus, while the description of the larva 

 named there on p. 75 Macrosila (Sp//inx) qiiinquemacnlatu. fits the hirva of 

 P. sexta (= Carolina'). 



In the Tring Museum several larvae, and 7U odd si)ecimeus from various places 

 of the United States and from Mexico. 



4ti. Protoparce dilucida. 



Piotoparce dilucida Edwards, Ent. Amer. iii. p. 89 (1887) (Vera Cruz); Bent., Bull. Am. Mus. 



N. H. viii. p. 170 (1896) (" Jalapa," typ. specim. ex coll. Edwards) ; Druce, Biol. Ce.titr. Am., 



Lej). Het. Siij>j)l. p. 31G. n. 6 (.\). t. G8. f. 5 (cJ) (18SI6) (Vera Cruz). 

 Phlvyethontinn dilwlda, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. G88. n. 15 (1892) (Vera Cruz). 

 *Phli'gfl!iotitiiis imli.-itiiicld Rothschild, Nov. Zool. i. p. 93 (1894) (Honduras ;— Mus. Tring) ; Druce 



I.e. t). 6 (li) (189G). 



(? ?. Antenna long and, in c?, thick in comparison to the size of the species. 

 First segment of foretarsns externall)' with four very strong spines and a few 

 smaller ones ; long spur of terminal pair of hindtibia three-qnarters the length of 

 tlie first tarsal segment. The number of yellow lateral patches to the abdomen 

 not constant, there being normally 4 snch spots, seldom 3 only. JS'o pulvillus. 



6. Tenth tergite of the general form of that of the allied species, more 

 compressed, distinctly raised mesially ; the lateral' edge of the sternite turned 

 uiiward close to the apex. C!lasper elongate sole-shaped, dorso-apical margin bent 

 inward ; harpe peculiar, having only a single jirocess, which is rounded at end and 

 dentate at the upper margin (PI. XXXVI. f. S). Tooth of penis-sheath long, 

 apical, distinctly turned upward, nearly as in /nmcosa. 



? . Eighth abdominal tergite mesially concave, appearing sinuate ajiically, 

 with the stronger chitinised sides somewhat prominent. Autevaginal lobe long, 

 triangular, apex rounded, oblique basal ridges continuous mesially, not high, 

 standing almost at right angles to one another, the point of the angle being, 

 however, strongly rounded. 



Larva and chrysalis unknown. 



Ilab. Mexico to Honduras. 



In the Triug Museum 16 d'c?, 3 ? ? from : Cordoba, Mexico ; Brit. Honduras ; 

 Honduras. 



41. Protoparce lucetius. 



Sj,liiii.r luceiiiis Stoll, in Cram., Pap. Ex. iv. p. 21. t. HOI. f. B. (1780) (Surinam) ; Walk., List Lep. 



hix. B. .)/. viii. p. 221. n. 14 (185G) (Brazil) ;iM5schl., Verh. Zool. Bat. Gea. [Vieii xxvi. p. 346 



(1876) (Surinam; fiaee sped); Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. IIH. i. p. 74. n. (1875) (partim? 



Brazil ; Cayenne) ; Burm., Descr. Rip. Argent. V. Atlas p. 57 (1879) (Buenos Ayres). 

 Phleyethantim lucetius, Hubner, Verz. bet Sclim. p. 140. n. 1501 (1822) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. 



p. G89. n. 31 (1892) (S.Am.). 

 SphitLT hannihal, Burmeister {wm Cramer, 1779), Sphiiig. Bras. p. G8. n. G (1856) (Rio de Janeiro ; 



partim). 

 Prnioparce hicetiu.<<, Butler, Trans. ZooL Soc. Loud. ix. p. G08. n. 17 (1877) (Brazil). 

 SphiiLC lutetiui (!), Burmeister), Descr. Rip. Argent, v. p. .320 (1878) (= ? hannihal ex err.). 

 Phhgetontius (!) contractu (?), Peters, Illuslr. Zeitschr. Ent. iii. Heft. 22. t. 1. f. 8. 8« (1898). 



c? ? . The slaty black sericeous patches on the upperside of the forewing are 

 very pronounced and form, together with a patch in the cell, a large semicircle 



