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lldh. 'rropicul :iii(l Sulitroiiical America, as tar iiortli as Texas uimI Florida ; 

 West Iiiilies. i 



A coniiuoii K]iecies. 1 



III tlie Triiig Museum so-odd S S , 30 ?? fnmi : ("ula; Jauiaiea ; various 

 localities I'roui Mexico to Argentina and Southern Bra/.il. 



The description of />c>/tir/tK, I.e., ajipiies better to the ? of this species Miun to 

 any other Sphingid ; the white dot on the forewing mentioned by Fabricius, is, 

 however, seldom distinct in the ?. 



As pointed out liy Schaus, I.e., the true oenotrus is quite distinct from the 

 species confounded with it by Grote and others, and named by Schaus crameri. 

 Butler and Druce identified this crameri as omphalcae of Boisduval, but were wrong, 

 omijlialcae being a variety of lassauxi. 



Sepp's figure oi' ///eta is doul)tless a bud re]iresentation of the ? oi oenotrus. 



Boisduval's /^/y^tv/s is not the same as ISchaufnss's jtijtcri.i, this being a variety 

 of lassauxi 



297. Erinnyis crameri (PI. X. f 5, S). 'j 



SjiliiHx 'leiiotnis, .iii<rri/.r uciiotnis, Di/o/ihoiKihi miiutnis auct. partial, iioii Uramer. , 



Aiiccry.r ociiiiinis, Boisduval, .s'/ztr. Grii. Lip. llet.i. p. 121). n. 15 (1875) (Cayenne; Antilles ; Brazil). 

 Eritniifis oe.nolrus, Grote {iimi Cramer, 1780), Pi-nc. Ent. Soc. Phllad. v. p. 76. t. 2. "f. 13 ( 5 ) (1865) ; 



id. & Rob., I.e. p. 168. u. 110 (1865) (.syn. partim). 

 irdiqihniKiUi urmitrus, Grote, I.e. vi. p. 3:i9 (1867) ; id., Trans. Amcr. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 185 (1871) ; 



Burm., Dm;-. Rep. Arf/ent. v., Atlas p. 32. t. 12. f. 3 (/.) (1879) ; Gundl., Couti: Ent. Culjana 



p. 219 (1882) ; Bonniiigh., Iris xii. p. 122. n. 36 (1899) (partim). 

 Dihiphdiiiitit onijihtdeae, Butler {iion Boisduval, 1870), Traits. Z<ml. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 603. n. 4 (1877) 



(Mexico ; Haiti) ; id., Proc. Ziml Soc. Lornl. p. 484 n. 60 (1K78) (Jamaica) ; Druce, in Biol. 



Cc/ttr. Amcr., Lep. I/el. i. p 19. n. 2 (1881) (Mexico ; Nicaragua ; Chiriqui). 

 Ddophonota crameri Schaus, Eut. News ix. p. 136 (1898) (= oenotrus auct. partim). 



S ? . The sexes are less dissimihir in jiattern than in oenotrus, from whicii 

 crameri is easily distinguished by the absence of black dots from the underside 

 of the abdomen, the pale mesothorncic tegulae, the pale posterior area of the 

 forewing, and the more broken and clearer-defined border of the hindwing. 



S. Tenth abdominal sternite a little less curved than in oenotrus. Process of 

 harpe a little longer and apically narrower. De.xtro-lateral dentate edge of iienis- 

 sheatli (PI. LIII. f. '.)) proxiinally less jiroduced than in oenotrus. 



Larva (according to Burmeister, I.e.) witiiout longitudinal lateral stri[)e, very 

 finely striated with longitudinal, short, black dashes ; back brown, sides and under- 

 surface green ; first and third thoracic segments with red mesial jiatch, the latter 

 including a black spot ; horn very small. 



Chrysalis as in ello. 



Hab. Tropical and subtropical America : West Indies ; Mexico southward to 

 Paragua\'. 



In the Tring ]\Iuseum 32 Si, 31 ? ? from : Cuba; Jamaica ; Mexico; Costa 

 Bica ; Coloml)ia ; Venezuela ; British Guiaiui ; Trinidad ; Amazons (Bates) ; 

 Paraguay. 



2y8. Erinnyis obscura (PI. VIII. f. <i, ? ; 7. 8. 9, S S). T 



S/ihiiu-ohsciira Fabricius, Si/st. Ent. p. 538. n. 6 (1775) (America); Goeze, Ent. Beytr. iii. 2. p. 205. 

 n. 7 (1780) ; Fabr., Spec Ins. ii. p. 142. n. 14 (1781) ; id., .Mant. Ins. ii. p. 94. n. 16 (1787) ; 

 Gmel., Syst. Sal. i. 5. p. 2375. u. 58 (1790) ; Fabr., Ent. Si/st. iii. 1. p. 361. n. 17 (1793) (Amer. 

 insul. !). 



