( 386 ) 



Meriiiirs figure, if it was mciiiit for this insect, is luiK^li too grey ; in tlie silvery 

 spots it agrees, however, better with the present insect tlian with the grey o/clus. 



Cramer's figure is, in our oi)inioD, a very bad representation of the present 

 sj)ecies, described fully by Muschlcr, I.e., and therefore the name bahaKtuK. has to be 

 used for this insect. In tl:e interj)retation of some of Cramer's fignres an elastic 

 (•onsi'ience is necessary. 



Hoisdiival's li/nci/.s is described and figured from au individual (or rather one 

 made np of three), of which the wings, thorax, and head belong to what Moschler 

 describes as biihnstti.s, the black-b;uided alidomen to Ah'uron ctiriiitita, and the 

 palpi to some other Lepidopteron. 



(??. Forevving deeply sinuate below ;ipex, this much jmiduced ; distal edge 

 more or less dentate. 



Hdh. South America : Ecuador and Venezuela to Santa Catharina. 



In the Tring Museum 8 c^'c?, fi ? ? from: Cachabi, Ecuador, xi. ''.Kl (Rosen- 

 berg) ; Aroa, Venezuela ; Carijie, Venezuela, i. (Alocquerys) ; St. George's, 

 Gnayaua, xi. (Ellacombe). 



In the Bern Museum from Para (Di'. Goeldi), at the electric light, vi. 



b. M. bnbastus butleri. 



*Aleiiroii butlei-i Kirby, Tnms. Enl. Sue. Loud. p. 240 (1877) ("West Indies"); Waterh., Aid Jdeiil. 

 Lis. ii. t. 140. f. 6 (1883) ; Kirby, Oil. Lrp. Ilet. i. p. 645. n. 4 (1892). 



c? ? . Forewing less sinuate, and black discal band, of hindwiug narrower than 

 in the preceding ; upper left angle of process of penis-sheath produced, acute. 



Kirby gives the West Indies as habitat of this form. The specimen, which 

 is in bad condition, bears however a label " lielise," which probably is meant for 

 Belize, British Honduras. 



Ilab. British Honduras ? 



One specimen in the Dublin Museum. 



314. Madoryx pseudothyreus. 



CaWommii oIcIns?, Herrich-Sch., Corresj). Bl. p. 57 (1805) (Cuba). 



JJfineropkmes pxeudolhijrciis Grote, Pioc. Kiit. Sac. Phihid. v. p. 41. t. 41. f. 1 (ISCio) (Cuba) ; 

 id. & Rob., ibid. V. p. 152. n. 22 (1865) ; Grote, I.e. vi. p. 828 (1867) (Cuba) ; Herr.-Sch., 

 Ausser. Sclim. f. 554 (1869) ; Grote, Trans. Amer. Ent. Sar. iii. p. 184 (1871) (Cuba) ; Gundl., 

 Contr. Kilt. Ciihana p. 182 (1882) (San Cbristobal, Cuba) : Kirby, C<(t. Lej). Hd. i. p. 647. n. 5 

 (1892) (Cuba). 



Madoryx jiseiidotlnjreiis, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Uet. i. p. 156. n. 8 (1875). 



Hemeropluiies? pseudothi/reiis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 543. n. 3 (1877). 



c? ? . Much more variegated than the other species of Mac/onj.v. Olive subbasal 

 patch of forewing small, se[)arated into two spots ; no white subbasal costal dots ; 

 second silvery discal sj)ots angle-shaj)ed, the upper linear, sometimes a white dot 

 upon M at base of M' ; discal lines dentate, brown marginal baud indented at the 

 veins, above and below. First discal line of uuderside black, strongly dentate. 

 Penis-sheath (PI. Llll. f. 1.5, Uul)a) somewhat resembling that of o/e/iis, the dilated 

 j)art shorter and more acute, dentate only at the edges ; the apex sinuate in our 

 Florida specimens. 



Ilab. Cuba ; Florida. 



In the Tring Museum 3 c?c?, 3 ? ? from Chocoloskee, Florida, xi. 



A c? in tlie Berlin Museum, and another in coll. Staudinger, from Cuba. 



Herrich-Scbaeffer's figure is overdrawn, like the others ojj the same plate. 



