r 403 ) 



Forewiui;- not deiitioulatc, not olivionsly 



convex iu middle, dark area very sharply 



defined except near liinder angle . . . c. 

 h. Dark area of forewing prolonged along 



antemediau line to hinder margin . . :J3-t. K. ocijpcfe. 

 Dark area of forewing not prolonged along 



antemedian line to hinder margin . . 333. E. biqubris. 

 c. Dark area of forewing gradnally narrowed 



at antemedian line .... 337. E. carifev. 



Dark area of i'orewing trnncate before SM-. 335. E. qonjoii. 



333. Epistor lugubris. 



Drury, nhi^lv. r.rui. Ins. i. p. 61. t. 28. f. 2 (1770) (Antigoa). 



Sphinx luyahfis Linnu, Maiit. Phinl. p. 537 (1771) (Antigoa); Drury, I.e. Index (1773); Miill., 



Naturs. SuppL p. 301. n. 5a (1774) ; Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 537. n. 2 (1775) ; Goeze, Knt. Beylr. 



iii. 2. p. 202. n. 1 (1780) : Fabr., Spec. Ins. ii. p 140. n. 4 (1781) ; id., M,n,t. Ak. ii. p. ''.12. 



n. 4 (1787) ; Gmel., S>j.-<t. Xat. i. 5. p. 2372. n. 50 (1700) ; Fabr., E,ii. Syst. iii. 1. p. .35i;. n. 5 



(1793). 

 Eiii/o lutiuhrk, Htlbner, Samml. E.r. Srhm. t. 595. 596 (182~) (W. Indies) ; Walker, L>.<it Lrp. his. 



B. M. viii. p. 113. n. 1 (185G) (partim); Clem.,./ouc. .4c. N. Sc. Phihtd. iv. p. 139. n. 19 (1859); 



Morris, Cat. Lvii. N. Am. p. 18 (1800); Clem., in Morris, Sija. Lep. X. Am,, p. 102. n. 1 (1862); 



But!., Trans. Znnl. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 540. n. 1 (1877) (Haiti ; Venezuela ; Mexico ; St. Thomas ; 



Honduras; Santarem ; Rio); Dewitz, Mittli. Munch. Ent. Vei: i. p. 91 (1877) (Porto Rico) ; 



Moschl.. Verh. Znnl. Bat. Ges. Wien xxxii. p. 333 (1882) (Surinam ; = luctiiosiis =fi'r/,;is). 

 Tlii/reii.'i Iiif/iihri.'i, Boisduval, C'on.<<. Lep. Guatemala p. 09 (1870) (Georgia to Brazil ; Antilles). 

 Epistor li,,/i,br/s, id.. Sper. Gen. Lep. Met. i. p. 297. n. 1 (1875) (Virginia to Brazil ; Antilles). 

 Triptoijon hirjnhris, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Net. i. p. 644. n. 1 (1892). 



c? ? . Some sjiecimens are of a rather pale bnrnt-amher colonr. Stigma of 

 forewing distinct in both sexes. The species was described from Antigoa. We 

 have not seen an individnal from that island. In Drury's fignre the wings are 

 broader than in Continental specimens. As the Jamaica specimens are all broad- 

 wiuged, we thonght at first that the examples from all the West Indian Islands 

 except Haiti and (Jnba belonged to one subspecies, and those from the Continent, 

 Haiti, and Cnba to another. This is not the case. The specimens from St. 

 Thomas, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, etc., which we have seen, are not like the Jamaica 

 ones, but resemble closely those from the (Jontinent, though there may be some 

 slight, more or less constant diiference discoverable when a longer series is comjiared. 

 In this case the Continental specimens would form the subspecies E. lugubris 

 f'i'qeus, and those from Antigoa and neighbouring islands E. lugubris lugubris. 



S. Tenth tergite (PI. XLIV. f. 11) with a long, straight, mesial process ; the 

 three ventral processes slender, close together ; sternite asymmetrically dilated at 

 end and twisted (PI. XLIV. f. lU). Kight and left claspers different : the left 

 one (PI. XLVII. f. 17) almost straight dorsally, ventral margin nearly straight to 

 middle, where it is angled and produced into a short tooth, apex narrowed to a long 

 trnncate process ; right clasper with the ventral margin not angulate in middle, 

 witliont the ventral tooth, obli(pie from base to apical process. Penis-sheath 

 (PI. LIII. f. 313) ending in a long thin process. 



? . Tlie brown discal area of the forewing generally extending along antemedian 

 line to M', its inner margin obliipie, not very sharply defined, somewhat concave, 

 or straight, extending from stigma to end of R^, or to hinder angle. 



