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h. P. liicclitis laeetiiis. 



Sjjhhu- iKoiiiit: StoU, /.'■. 



*Pr(ilo/„irc(; cuitlriictii Butler, Pruc. Zon/. Sue. Lmid. p. V> (1.S75) (Rio de Jan. ;— Mm*. l?ri'.). 



riihqi'thontiwi contracta (?), Bonninghausen, iris xii. p. HI. n. C (1898) (Petropolis). 



*Sjiliiii.r patiaquire Berg, An. Sue. Cinil. Animl. xix. p. 2G(i. n. 1 (1885) (Salta : (.'atamarcii ; Mas. 



Buenos Ayres). 

 l')ile(ifUinntius jxinnquire (!), Kirby, Cat. Lep. lid. i. p. G89. n. 2J (1892) (" Bueno.s Ayres" ex en:). 



c? ? . This form varies obviously in size and colour. The forewing is in some 

 specimens more elongate than in others ; the marginal dots are liable to obliteration ; 

 rlie base and disc are not seldom strongly washed with russet, in which case the 

 niedio-costal bla 'k area is very jirominent. The abdominal tergites are occasionally 

 edged with white. In tliree of our c?c? from S. Brazil the harpe extends a little 

 beyond the dorsal edge of the clas])er, while in a fourth it reaches just to the edge. 



We liave only one ? from Cayenne; it is ajiparently slightly faded ; its fore- 

 wing is greyer iu tone than in the sontheru specimens. Still more greyish olive 

 are two tnales (our only ones) from Chanchamayo, Peru ; iu these the white fringe- 

 dots are very conspicuous, the harpe is rather narrower and at the apex not twisted. 

 There is possibly a northern and a soutliern subspecies in South America. 



In a large ? from Argentina — no special locality is given — with black fringe 

 to the forewing, the black autemedian line of the hiudwing is connected with the 

 double discal line only along (SM') ; another ?, from Buenos Ayres, has the fore- 

 wing much suffused witli black ; a specimen from Minas Geraes has no fringe-spots, 

 which are also absent in the siJecimeus described as panaquire from Salta. 



As the insect is not rare in southern Brazil it should not be difficult to find out 

 whether Peter's figures of tlie larva and pupa are correct. 



JIub. Surinam ; Peru ; Brazil ; Argentina. 



In the Tring Museum 11 c?c?, 13 ? ? from : (Jhanchamayo, Peru ; Cayenne ; 

 Miuas Geraes, February (Kennedy) ; Nova Friburgo ; Santa Catherina ; Sao 

 Paulo ; Buenos Ayres ; Salta, N.W. Argentina. 



Besides the before-mentioned Salta specimen which we received from the 

 author oi panaquire, Dr. Berg sent ns for comparison a "type" specimen of panaquire. 

 We do not find these individuals different from some of our lucetius specimens from 

 Bra/.il. 



42. Protoparce petuniae. 



*Sjjhm.e petuniae Boisdnval, Spec. Gin. Up. Hit. i. p. 7:1 n. 5. t. 5. f. 2 (1895) (Brazil ;— coll. 

 Charles Obcrthiir). 



StoU's rough figure of (ueetius bears some resemblance to this species, but 

 represents undoubtedly the preceding insect named contracta by Butler. Boisdnval 

 {l.c.) described under Incetius both tlie present species and lucetius, we believe, while 

 he considered the form from the Province of Rio de Janeiro as distinct, naming it 

 petuniae ; the Argentinian subspecies, which is the most easily recognisable one, 

 he treated as a variety of petuniae, and again as a separate species under the 

 name of cesfri. Other authors have scarcely been more successful iu dealing wit li 

 the present species and its relatives, and that is not to be wondered at, since these 

 species do not exhibit very striking external differences. 



tS ? . Antenna shorter and slenderer than in sexta. Discal and postdiscal lines 

 of upperside of forewing rather strongly angled near R^ much less evenly curved 

 than in sexta ; the black and the bufHsh white spots of the fringe nearly equal 



