( 1-^1 ) 



$ . Not dissected. 



Early stages unknown. 



Ifab. Clianchamayo, Peru ( Tliamiu) ; 1 S received from Messrs. Staudiuger 

 & Bang-Haas ; 1 ? from Ynnga^, La Paz, Bolivia, 14. xii. 99 (Garlepp). Also in 

 the Staudinger collection. 



Easily distinguished from mau.ni by the black thoracic stripes, and the mncli 

 more distinctly marked forewings, from luyens and allies by the golden metathoracic 

 spots. 



92. Hyloicus justiciae. 



*SpIiiiix justiciar Walker, i;.s< Lep. Jus. B. M. viii. p. •220. n. 12 (18,0G) (Rio de Janeiro ;—Mu9. 

 Brit.) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. Hef. i. p. 88. n. 23 (187,5) ( = iiiitcnis ; Rio de J.) ; Butl., Tnws. 

 Zool. Sor. Land. ix. p. G19. n. 9 (1877) (Rio de J.) ; Burm., Descr. Rep. Argent, v. p. 324. n. 4 



(1878) (Buenos Ayres ; N. Friburgo ; descr. of larva); id., I.e.. Athu p. 30. t. H. f. 3 (/.) 



(1879) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. J/et. i. p. 091. n. 12 (1892); Schaus, Knt. News vi. p. 143 (189r)) 

 ( = antero.i). 



Sphin.r anteros M($nt!tries, Ennm. Corp. Anim. .lA»s. Peti:, Lep. p. 131. n. 1478. t. 12. f. 1 (18;-,7) 

 (N. Friburgo) ; Butl., I.e. n. 10 (1877) ; Kirby, I.e. n. 13(1892). 



i ? . Fringe of abdominal tergites orange yellow near the mesial line. 



(S. Harpe resembling somewhat that of luf/eti.s, not serrate, with one apical 

 tooth (PL XXXVIII. f. 1) ; tenth sternite rounded triangular, middle sinus barely 

 vestigial. 



?. Not dissected. 



Larva green, with seven side-bands, which are reddish violi't in front, wiiife 

 behind, continued to the next segment, but this prolongation vellow ; thorax 

 granulose. — Food : Jasticia, family Amntkaceue. 



Pupa mentioned by Burmeister, but not characterised. 



Ilab. Province of Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Ayres, probably extending farther 

 north. 



The species is not mentioned by BOnninghausen in his List of the Spliiiiyidae 

 of liio de Janeiro. 



We have only one c? in tiie Tring Museum. 



93. Hyloicus merops. 



*Spliinx merops Boisduval, Cons. Lep. Gnat. p. 73 (1870) (Honduras; Mexico; — coll. Charles 



Oberthilr) ; Butl., Trans. Zrjol. Snc. Land. ix. p. 1119. n. 11 (1877); Schaus, Ent. News vi. 



p. 143 (1895) (northern form of justiciae). 

 Sphliu: Ingens, Boisduval, sSpec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 87. n. 22(1875) (lur/ens = merops ex err.) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 091. n. 8 (1892) (partim). 

 Sphia.c justiciae, Druce (non MenetriiH, 1803), Biol. Centr. Amer., Lep. Het. i. p. 23. n. 3 (1883) 



(common in Centr. Am., Mexico to Panama) ; id., I.e. SuppiL p. 318(1890) ; Pitt. & BiolL, Leji. 



Jlet. Co.-<la Rica p. 12 (1897). 



c? ?. Fringe of abdominal tergites without orange-yellow spots. 



S. Harpe nearly as in c/eminas, shorter, dorsal and distal margins dentate. 

 Lolte of tenth sternite less triangular than m jtistieiae. 



? . Vaginal plate (PI. XX. f 24) intermediate bi'tween those of (ji'miim.i and 

 separatiis, more wriukled than in either species, and the distal lateral margins 

 more slanting. 



Early stages of tliis common insect not described. 



Ilab. Mexico southward to Ecuador. 



