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Aiiceri/T iilojie, Walker, Li.<:l Leji. fns. [i. M. viii. p. 225. ii. (lH5fI) ; Lucas, in Sasjra, Ilii:t. CiiIki 

 vii. p. 298 (1850) ; Clem., ./uiini. Ar. A". .SV. I'/iih(,l. iv. p. 177. u. 7fi (18.','J) ; ki., in Morris, 

 Syn. Lep. N. Am. p. 202. n. 4 (186-2) : Herr.-Sch., Con-rsp. lilall p. 60 (186;-)) (Cuba) ; Boisd., 

 Spec. Gen. Up. Hel. i. p. 121. n. 2 (187.')) ; Moschl., Veih. ZonL B„l. Ges. Wieii xxvi. p. 346 

 (1876) (Surinam); Bntl., Tnms. Z,i„!. Soc. LmuL ix. p. 600. n. 1 (1877) (Jamaica); Dew., 

 Mitth. Miinch. Eld. Ver. i. p. 92 (1877) (Porto Rico) ; Druce, in Bh,}. Cnilr. Amer., Lep. flH. 

 i. p. 18. n. 1 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Lip. Ihi. i. p. OH'.l. n. 1 (1892) ; Druce, /..-. S,q,pl. p. 312 

 (1896) (fasriaUi distinct). 



Atireryx fuDcitihi, Butler, Tntns. Zool. .Soc. f.nml. ix, p. 600. n. 2 (1877) (Haiti ; Jamaica) ; id., 

 Proi: Zvnl. Snr. Lniid. p. 483. n. 57 (1878) (Jamaica) ; Kirby, I.e. n. 2 (1892). 



Pxruilosphinj- xcynm, Buimeister {miii Cramer, 1780), Descr. Rep. Anjeiit. v. p. 327. n. 2 (1878) 

 (sub syn.). 



*Amei-yx edwan!."! Butler, PnpUio i. p. 105(1881) (Florida) : Grote, Cmuid. Ent. xviii. p. 136. n. 97 

 (1886) ; Edw., Ent. Amu: iii. p. 164 (1887) (larva, pupa) ; Smith, Trails. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv. 

 p. 159. t. 8. f. 1. 2. 3 (genit.) (1888) (Florida) ; Edw., Bull. U. St. N. Miis. xxxv. p. 48 (1889) 

 (liter, rel. to metam.) ; Kirby. Ir. n. 3 (1892). 



c? ?. Tlu' chavacters by wliicli some authors tlioiight to lie able tti distinguish 

 iilojte, J'aaciatu aud edican/si, are partly individual, jiartly se.xnal ; fasciata and 

 edwardsi are synonyms of alope. The s])ecies resembles crameri in the dark- 

 coloured forewing, and Isoqnathus in the yellow colour of the hindwing. 



6. Slender processes of tenth sternite longer than the tergal lobes. Harpe 

 dilated at end, rather short (PI. XLV. f. 21). 



Larva brown above, green below, the two colours separated by a nearly black 

 line, which is more or less interrujited ; thorax with a large black mesial jiatch 

 anteriorly on tiiird segment, including a red ring ; horu very short. — Food-plaut : 

 Jiitvopha (Merian) ; Carica. 



Chrysalis darker than that of ello. 



Ilalj. Tropical and Subtropical America : West Indies, Bahamas, Florida, 

 southward to Southern Brazil and Northern Argentina. 



In the Tring Museum 1 larva, SU-odd specimens from : Florida ; Nassau ; 

 Jamaica ; St. V^incent ; various places from Mexico to Southern Brazil aud Matto 

 Grosso. Not seen from the Bolivian Andes. 



203. Erinnyis lassauxi. 



*Avci>ry.r hi/ixiinj-i Boisduval, Bufl. Soc. Ent. France, p. 157. n. 2 (1859) (Buenos Ayres ; — coll. 



Charles Oberthiir) ; id., Spec. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. 129. n. 14 (1875) (Bras, sept.) 

 DilophonoU, lasxaiui, Butler, /.-•. ix. p. 604. n. 10 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Iht. i. p. 097. n. 9 



(1892) ; Rothscb., Nov. Zooi,. i. p. 95 (1894). 

 Diliiphonota laKniinxi (!), Bijnninghausen, Irix xii. p. 122. n. 39 (1899) (Rio de Jan.). 



c??. The hindwing is deeper ferruginous-red in this species than in the 

 others, and the red colour is often entirely or partly replaced by brownish black. 

 The crest of the mesothorax is nearly as high as in alope. The abdominal tergites 

 are black, except narrow, dorsally interrupted, sharjdy defined, grey apical belts. 

 The dark forewing resembles that of crameri ; there is a large, triangular, costal, 

 apical grey patch. 



S. Lobes of tenth tergite broader and shorter than in the other species 

 somewhat obtusely acuminate, the processes not essentially longer than the tergite, 

 curved downward and very little outward at end. Process of harpe with the upper 

 edge rounded-dilated at end, the dilated part elliptic. 



Larva (ace. to Burmeister, see cercyon, below), very much like that of ello as 

 described by Burmeister.*— Food-plant : Morrenia. 



* See ello. 



