tubercle, horn long in yotiuy: stages, reiiiced to a short cone in later stages. — Food- 

 plants : Ji(s.sieua, Oiiriyracrai'. 



Pni>a in a loose, white, mnslin-like cocoon, attached to the food-plant. 



Hub. Mexico to Bolivia and Southern Brazil. 



In the Tring Museum cJc?, 2 ? ? from : ilio D.igua, Colombia (Rosenberg) ; 

 San Augnstin, Ma])iri K., Bolivia, 3.300 ft., ix. 'Oo (Stuart) ; Rio Demerara ; St. 

 Catharina ; 1 c? ex coll. Lennep. 



In the Bern Mnseum from Para (Dr. Goehli), at the electric light, iii. 



314. Madoryx bubastus. 



Sphinx huhanlux Cramer, Pap. Euut. ii. p. 84. t. 140. f. E (1777) (" Coromandel" loc. err.) : Goeze, 

 Eiit. Bei/tr. iii. 2. p. 221. n. 62 (1780). 



c? ? . Much more brown than o/'chts. Upj)er discal silvery spot of forewing 

 small, rounded or ovate; second irregularly triangular; at least three times the 

 size of the first, its upper inner edge pointing costad ; from near the end of SO' 

 two pale lines rnn backwards, forming an acute angle, the outer oue ending at tip 

 of M', the proximal one at inner margin in a jiatch, in which are situated two lirown 

 spots; it nearly touches in middle a pale discal line which is curved costad in front. 

 Distal margin of forewing less dentate in ? than in c?. 



(J. Sexual armature as in oirlu.^, but process of harpe narrower, more conical; 

 penis-sheath (PI. LIU. f. 16) curved at end, dentate at the edge, with some fine 

 bristles at the tip, upper left angle somewhat produced and acute in butU'ri. 



Hab. South and (.'entral America, from British Honduras to Santa Catharina. 



There are in the Tring Museum a c? and a ? of a Madorj/x which differ from 

 all the specimens of bi/bastu.s we have seen. They are, unfortunately, without 

 locality. The S has only one very small, yellowish, discal dot, and the ? has this 

 dot only very feebly indicated by some paler scales. In the ? the subbasal costal 

 dot is almost absent, and the disc is much s'naded with scales of a peculiar greenish 

 blue tint, similar to that shown in Cramer's figure ; the same tint reappears on the 

 underside in the middle of the costal margin, and also on the disc of the right 

 hiudwing. The white dots on the underside of tlie abdomen are minute in the ? . 

 The penis-sheath (PI. LIII. f. 17) differs slightly from that of buhastm. The 

 distal margin of the forewing is not distinctly dentate in either of the two 

 individuals. These two specimens belong perhaps to a third local race. 



«. M. bubastus bubastus. 



MeriaD, Metum. Inx. Sarin, t. 39 (1705) (imago, pupa ; ? nan larva). 

 Sphinx bulnistu.i Cramer, I.e. 



Sjihiiu didijma, Gmelin, Sy>it. Nat. i. ,5. p. 2381. n. 79 (1790) (partim). 

 Amphjpterus hiihastux, Hiibner, Verz. bel: Srhm. p. 133. D. 1431 (1822). 

 Amply2>t«ru« bupristus (!), id., I.e. Jmli:r p. 24 (182-). 



S})hinxj)an-e, Burmeister (noii Fabricius, 1770), Abh. Xat. Ges. Halle p. 63 (1854). 

 Calliomma bubastii", Walkor, List L'/i. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 112. n. 6 (1856). 

 Zonllia? bnhasltix, Boisdaval, S/iec. Gi-n. Lip. Hit. i. p. 144. n. 8 (1875). 

 *.]f(„h,rijx lyiinix id.. !.r. p. 151. u. 2. t. 4. f. 4 (1875) (Cayenne ;— coll. Charles Oberthiir). 

 Madoryx. hiihixtux, Miiscbler, Verh.Ziml. Dol. Gis. Wini x.xvi. p. 347 (1876) (Surinam; description). 

 Fanacra? buba-itux, Butler, Trans. Zoal. Sue. Loud. ix. p. 551. n. 15 (1877) (" Coromandel"). 

 Hemeruplanes hjm-iis, id., l.r. p. 630 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Iht. i. p. 647. n. 4 (1892) (Cayenne). 

 Madonji- oirlu.i, Burmeister. Descr. Hep. Argent, v. .itlas p. 33 (1879). 



Hemeroplanes bubastiix, Kirby, I.e. n. 7 (1892) (Surinam) ; Bonningh., Iris xii. p. 125. sub n. 46 

 (1899) (Rio Grande do Sul). 



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