( fil4 ) 



(N. Wost minster and Kiiderliy, lirit. Col.) ; .ToncR, RfjjI. KnI. Snr. OnUir'^n xxx. p. '>« (1000) 

 Westminster, Brit. Col.)- 



cJ?. Yellow baud of liiiidwinn' trian^Milar, iiaiTowinjj; liehiiul, not reacliin,';' 

 abdomiiial iiiarsriii, or (typical iihthrmc) liindwiug above black, with a vestige of a 

 greyish band. ]'>asal area of forewiug below black or shaded with orange. Palpus 

 black or somewhat greyish Ijeucath. 



Ilab. Oregon ; British Columbia. 



In the Tring Museum A S i,\ ? from : Westminster, Brit. Col. ; Keith IJoad, 

 N. Vancouver, 14. v. 1902 (N. C. Rothschild). 



These five specimens have a yellowisli band on the ui)perside of tlie forewiug. 

 Another ? , also from the Keith IJoad, has a trace of a greyish liand. TJiis sjiecimen 

 has kindly been presented to the Tring Museum by Mr. Wilson, who says that he 

 has kept it, together with some otlier Lepidoptera, in memory of his little daughter 

 ]{ose Annette, to whom he had given it shortly before her deatli. We gratefully 

 acknowledge the gift. 



The obvious differences between the specimen of Rose Annette Wilson and that 

 caught by N. C. Rothschild render it probable that the distinctions between 

 _//'n:o/asciata, iilaliime and rachcl, are merely individual, not snbspecific. 



c. P. j/iirofasciata nickel. 

 Lejyisesla iilalume var. mi-hrl Bruce, Enf. Xewx xii. p. 19 (1901) (Colorado : larva on Ejiihb'nim). 



One specimen known : sex not stated. It is said to differ from iilahime in the 

 band of the wings being " lighter in colour, wider and more distinct," and in 

 tlie collar and thorax not being black. The author attributes, however, an intense 

 black collar and thorax to ulahmc, in which he is wrong. Judging from the short 

 description, rachcl seems to stand intermediate between ,/. _flarq fascial a and 

 Jl. nlalume. 



Mr. Bruce says : " I was collecting larvae of Alijpia lorqxini on Kjiilohium 

 and found a large Sphinx larva looking very much like that of T. obbofi. The anal 

 horn was absent, and a shining button was in its jdace. I fed it carefully and it 

 pulled a leaf or two over itself on the soil and pupated, and appeared as a moth in 

 February. The specimen is therefore from Colorado, and is now in the collection 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.'' 



CXLVIII. EUPROSERPIXUS.— Typus : phaeton. 



Eitproserpimist Grote & 'Roh.,Pi-oc. Eiit. Soc. Pliilail. v. p. 177 (1865) (type : plmcUm'). 

 Macrnrilossia, Boisduval («o« Ochsenheimer, 181G), Ann. Soc. Ent. Bi-h/. xii. p. 05 (18()8). 

 I.rpixeshi, Smith {timi Grote, 1865), Trans. Amer. Enl. So<: xv. p. 11-2 (1.^88). 



c? ? . Differs from Proscrpinus in the more abrupt hook of the antenna, the 

 last three or four segments being finite suddenly reduced in width, and in the 

 puhillns and paronychium being absent. Sexual armature of S similar to that of 

 Pro-'terpinxs clarhiae, tooth of penis-sheath shorter. 



E;irly stages not known. 



IJab. Pacific District of Nearctic Region. 



Two species, which are easily distinguished from Proserpinus by the white 

 hind wing and the white underside of breast and wings. 



Abdomen with creamy white side-tufts . . . 555. E. phaeton. 

 Abdomen without creamy white side-tufts . , 550. E. eiiterpe. 



