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Eiit. Xt'ws xi. p. 485. t. 10 (;.). U {ll.,/>.) (l'.»00) (life hist.) ; Kaye, T,;i>i.^: Eiit. Sue. Lnnd. 



p. 13i) (1901) (Tiiuidad). 

 .Uiici-osiln rustiat, Walker, List Lrji. Jii.-i. B. .]f. viii. p. 1'.19. n. 2 (185G) (St. Domingo; Jamaica ; 



Mexico ; Brazil) ; Clem., Juur/i. Ac. X. Sc. I'hilad. (2). iv. p. 10:i. n. 50 (18;')9) ; Grote, l.r. 



vi. p. 329 (1807) (Cuba); id., Trans. Amer. Kiit. Soc. iii. p. 185 (1871) ; id., B„ll. Buffalo S„r. 



N. Sc. ii. p. 227. n. 52 (1875) ; Gundl., Contr. Rut. Cuhaiia p. 2r)8 (1881) (Cuba ; larva, pupa). 

 Plilerjelliontius rustka, Grote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. N. Sc. iii. p. 224^ n. 53 (1877) (Penn. ; Virg. ; 



South. States) ; Edw., Bull. U. St. Xat. Mua. xxxv. p. 45 (1889) (lit. rel. to transf.) ; Kirby, 



Cut. Lcp. HH. i. p. 087. n. 1 (1892) ; Rothsch., Nov. ZooL. i. p. 541 (1894) (Aroa). 

 Phlrfjetliontiiis nistkus, Edward.s, Ent. Amn: ii. p. 103 (1887) (pupa); Eeutenm., JIull. Am. .Mns. 



N. II. vii. p. 300. t. 4. f. G (1895) ; Kirby, in Allen, Nat. Lihr., .Moths iv. p. 43. t. 105 (/., ;.) 



(1897). 

 Clanis phalarl.% Kirby, Cut. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 702. n. 1 (1892) (cit. Schaller ex err.!). 

 PhlegeAoHtius (!) rastica, Peters, lUustr. Zeitschr. Ent. iii. Heft 22. t. 1. f. 5. 5a. 5//. be (l.,p.) (1898); 



Biinningh., Irk xii. p. 111. n. 7 (1899) (Rio de Jan. ; larva on Bignonia and Heliotrop). 



S ? . The basal and discal areas of the forewing and the hiiidwing are almost 

 lilaek in Iresli specimens, while io faded individuals the forewing becomes more or 

 less pale russet. In one of our Aroa individuals the interspace C — M- of the fore- 

 wing between the autemedian and the discal lines is very pale wood-brown, while 

 the interspace between the first and second discal lines has remained dark brown. 



I/ab. C!ontinental America, except the North and South, and the larger West 

 Indian islands; common. 



iSn odd specimens in the Tring Mtiseiuii from: Bahamas; Haiti; Jamaica: 

 and various jilaces of the Continent. 



d. P. rustica hnrferti. 



Sphinx rustica, Snellen, Tijihchr. Ent. xxx. p. 33 (1887) (Cura9ao). 

 *Plilegetho)ilius harterli Rothschild, Nov. ZoOL. i. p. 29 (1894) (Bonaire). 



c??. The difference between this and the preceding form is very slight, but 

 constant, the dark, triangular, discal area of the forewing being obviously paler in 

 all the specimens we have seen. 



Ilah. (Jura(,-ao ; Bonaire; St. Vincent; St. Lucia; i)robal)ly on all the Lesser 

 Antilles. 



In the Tring Museum 1 S,A ? ?, from : Bonaire (E. Hartert) ; St. Vincent ; 

 St. Lucia ; Barbados. 



Also in coll. Staudinger, from (Jurat^ao ; coll. Snellen, from (Jui'a(,-ao ; Mns. 

 Dublin, from Barbados ; and in other collections. 



c. P. rustica calapagensta. 



Protoparce calapagensig Holland, Proc. U. St. Nat. Mas. xii. p. 195 (1889) (Charles I.). 

 Syzygia calapagensis, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Net. i. p. 685. n. 2 (1892) (Galapagos). 



cj ? . A smaller and paler insect than rustica rustica. The tenth abdominal 

 tergite of the cj not so distinctly sinuate, and the harpe shorter, than in ru.sfic" 

 rustica, otherwise the same. 



A c? from Chatham I. in the Tring Museum is abnormal, having the body 

 above and the wings nearly entirely brownish black, except the double series of 

 dorsal dots on the abdomen, the stigma of the forewing and the marginal spots ni' 

 both wings, which are white, besides feeble traces of white markings on both wings. 

 The iirst segment of the palpus is much less extended white than in normal 

 specimens. We call this aberrant individual — 



