( 9.5 ) 



genus, — thougli tlie characters in wliicli it is said hy its (iriginal defincr to differ 

 from Profoparce are uot valid. 



We emphasise that the genital armature of C/'l. jnftinhicanim is identical with 

 that (if Protojiarce Jforestan. The opinion that specifically distinct insects are 

 ill ways different in the sexual armature is erroneous ; insects identical in those 

 organs may be different not only specificalli/ but also in'iwricaUii. 



llnh. America, from Canada to Argentina. 



Key to the species : 



Foretarsus without obviously jirolonged 



spines ...... 07. Chi. jusmincaruin. 



Foretarsus with obviously prolonged spines (3{>. Clil. iindata. 



GT. Chlaenogramma jasminearum. 



Sphinx jfismiumrum Gue'rin, I.e. p. 494. t. 84. f. 1 (;.). U (/.) (1829-44) (Am. bor.) ; Gray, in 

 Griff., An. Khitjd. XV. t. 83. f. 1. la (1832) (copy of Guer.'s plate) ; Wils., &(,■//,/. Brit. 

 ed. viii. t. 236. f. 5. '5 (1855) ; Clem., Junrn. Ac. Nat. Sci. Plillad. iv. p. 173. n. 71 (1859) 

 (Long I. ; N. York ; Penn.) : Morris, Cut. Lep. A'. Am. p. 19 (1860) ; Clem., in Morris, Syn. 

 Lip. N. Am. p. 198. n. 9 (1862) ; Walk., List Lep. Lis. B. .1/. .xxxi. p. 36 (1864) ; Grote & Rob., 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Phihul. v. p. 165. n. 91 (1865) (N. York : Penn.) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. Met. 

 i. p. 114. n. 56 (1875) (Am. sept. ; on Fraxinus) ; Struck., Lep. Rhop. Het. p. 115. t. 13. f. 14 



(1876) (larva descr. ; N.York; N. Jersey; Penn.; etc.); Butl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lund, ix, 

 p. 618. n. 4 (1877) : Mart., Trans. Dept. Agr. lUin. xviii. App. p. 103 (1880) ; Pil., Pap. ii. 

 p. 66 (1882) (Dayton, 0., 1 (J). 



Dilndia jasminearum, Grote, List Lep. N. Am. p. 4 (1868) ; id.. Bull. Buffalo Soc. N. Sri. i. p. 25 

 (1874) ; id.. I.e. ii. p. 227. n. 49 (1875) ; Butl., I.e. p. 640 (1877) ; Grote, I.e. iii. p. 224. n. 50 



(1877) (N. York ; Penn.) ; id. Canad. Ent. xviii. p. 134. n. 59 (1886) (Georgia, northward) : 

 id., Hawk-Miilhs N. Am. p. .39 (1886) (Long I., rare in Middle States, not coram, in South) ; 

 Edw., Bull. U. St. Nat. Mns. xxxv. p. 45 (1889) (lit. rel. to transf.). 



Siihin.rja.'iminearum (!), Boisduval, I.e. t. 1. f. 4 (/.) (1875). 



CIdanuxjramma jasminearum, Smith, Ent. Amer. iii. p. 154 (1887) ; id.. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Loud. 

 XV. p. 199. t. 10. f. 2 (genit.) (1888) (N. York : N. Jersey ; Penn. ; Maine (?) ; Canada (?) : 

 Maryld. ; Georgia); Dyar, in Riley, /h.s. Life iii. p. 322 (1891) (N. York, electr. light): 

 Beutenm., Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. vii. p. 306. t. 6. f. 3 (i.) (1895) (short descr. of ;., ;)., I.). 



*.\lacrosila rotuudaUi Rothschild, Nov. ZooL. i. p. 90. t. 7. f. 17 (1894) (hab.?— Mus. Tring). 



S ? . Anal angle of forewing rather less prominent than in Protoparcejtore&tan, 

 black longitudinal streak R^ — M^ generally jsrolonged to postdiscal line or even 

 to margin, which is very rarely the case in P. Jforestan, second streak, M' — M-, 

 inconspicuous. 



S. Tenth alidominal tergite (PI. XXVII. f. 31) prismatically compressed, 

 highest before end, curved ventrad, pointed ; sternite gently curved in side-view 

 (PI. XXVII. f. 32), almost flat, the edges slightly turned upwards, underside 

 feebly convex, the lobe somewhat narrowed towards end, mesially incised, the 

 two halves rounded. Clasjier (PI. XXXVI. f. 9) almost straight dorsally from 

 base to apical fourth, then slanting, the dorso-apical margin bent inward ; harpe 

 rounded, concave, the distal edges turned up, densely denticulate. Apical tooth of 

 penis-sheath horizontal, conical, pointing dextro-laterad, nearly as in I'rotoparce 

 pefmim (PI. XXIX. f. 25). 



?. Vaginal plate rounded distally, smooth, not scnled : proximal edge pro- 

 truding above the membrane connecting the plate with the seventli sternite : 

 vaginal orifice median, covered by a transverse projecting fold which is shallowly 



