( 89 ) 



Hah. Costa Rica, Pern, ami Colomliia, (loulitlcss more widely ilistrilmted, \mi 

 rarer than most Protoparcc. 



In the Trina" Museum 2 i$ from: ){io Oau-ua Culomliia (\V. Udseiibei-u'): Costa. 

 Hica. 



Tlie loealiry Cauada given hy Kirl)y for ilalira is erroneous. The specimen 

 came doubtless from Peru, ]>erlia]is I'rora the same locality where Ictirosjiila was 

 found. 



'■ids in c(dl. Charles Cberllii'ir from: Juntas, ('auca, and Honda, ( '(domhia 

 (Mathan). 



In coll. Sraudinger '1 S S from Pern : Chanchamavo and Huavabamlia. 



58. Protoparce brontes. 



Sphhuc hronteK Drury, Wustr. Ex. Tns. ii. p. 53 & Index, t. 29. f. 4 (1773) (New York ex err. !). 

 Sphinx pamiihnhix Stoll, in Cram., Pap. Ex. iv. p. 217. t. 394. f. E. (1782) (Surinam ex err.) ; 



Grote, Proc. Ent. Sne. Philad. v. p. 72 (1805) { = afflicta ?). 

 *Miiiro!iihi cnllarin Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 201. n. 5 (18.")C) (Jamaica ; St. Domingo ; — 



Mus. Brit.). 

 .Mucrnsiht hronhx, Grote & Rob., Trans. .\mer. Ent. So,', ii. p. 75 (1868) (= coUaris). 

 Diludiii hruntes, Butler, Tran^. Zuiil. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 612. n. 1 (1877) (Jamaica ; Haiti) : Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Hel. i. p. 681. n. 1 (1892) (Jamaica ; Haiti ; " N. America" ex err. 1). 

 Dilniliajjeimpliillus, Butler, I.e. p. 013. n. 2 (1877) (= hrmites (?) ; not afflictii). 



Thongh Drury's figure of brontes is not very good, it cannot be referred to 

 anything else but the present West Indian species. Some authors have had doubts 

 on this point, chiefly on account of New York being given by Drury as the country 

 from whence the insect came. If these authors had looked more carefully over 

 Drury's work, as others have done, they would have noticed that the specimens in 

 Dr. Fothergill's collection — from which collection Drury figured brontes— were in 

 more than one instance erroneously labelled. On the same j^late on which brontes 

 is figured the North American Pholiis achemon is also represented, and this species 

 is said to be from Jamaica I Surely the localities of brontes and achemon were 

 interchanged in Dr. Fothergill's collection. 



c??. Antennae long, and in $ very thick in comparison with the size of the 

 sjiecies. First segment of foretarsus mnch shorter than foretibia, without prolonged 

 spines. With pnlvillus. 



$. Tenth abdominal tergite very sharjjly pointed, hooked, compressed, barely 

 dilated laterally before hook, but somewhat ventrally ; sternite truncate, lateral 

 margins curved upwards at end, with the upper angles sharp, the sternite aj)pearing 

 sinuate in an anal view. Clasper long and rather narrow, dorso-apical margin 

 strongly bent inward ; harpe triangular, pointed, ventral margin conve.^ and then 

 concave, upper margin feebly rounded (PI. XXXVII. f. 10), denticnlation minute. 

 Penis-sheath with an apical tooth, which is dilYereut in the two subspecies 

 (PI. XXIX. f. 31. 32). 



?. Postvaginal i)late strongly chitiuised, triangularly dilated mesially, apical 

 edge incrassate ; antevaginal plate very short, almost membranaceous, rngate or 

 folded, mesially sinuate, forming a very low transverse ridge. 



Larva with oblique side-bands, very similar to that of P. se.rta jamaircns/s, 

 spiracles, however, bright orange. 



Ilab. Jamaica ; Porto Rico ; Haiti ; Cnl)a ; Bahamas ; South Florida. 



Two subspecies t 



