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j^ciR'i'iilly ill a jiiile tsti-i|)C', tlic ocelli tilled in willi black (ir nnl aceordiug to figures. 

 A speeiiueii in the Triiig Museiun from Jiuiiaica has the horn vestigial. — Food- 

 plants : Spermacoce, Munettia. 



Piijia almost grey ; stigmata in bhu'k sjiots. 



Ilab. Canada to Argentina, including the West Indies (not on the Bahamas ?) ; 

 a common s]iecies. 



In the Triiig Museum I larva (Jamaica), 150-odd sjiecimeus from : Virginia ; 

 N. Carolina; Florida; (Juba ; Jamaica; Dominica; Tobago; various places in 

 Central and South America. 



(558. Xylophanes suana. 



^Cliuerociimjia siiaim Druce, Ann. May. N. 11. (6). iv. p. 77 (1><8'.I) (^IJahamas; — coll. Drucu). 



Daiapsa auaiia, Kirby, Cal. Lep. lief. i. p. 671. n. 3 (1802). 



Chiici-oamipa evami (!), Hampson, Ann. Maf). N. II. (7). vii. p. 2,01 (HM)! ) (Nassau ; Andros). 



c? ? . Body and upperside of forewing more uniform in colour than in tersa, 

 ash-colour ; abdomen not yellowish and tawny at the sides or below, spines of 

 tergites much weaker. Forewing less elongate ; spots of hindwing reduced in 

 size and number. Sexual armature the same as in tersa. One of our c?(? and 

 another in the British Museum have the njiiicrside of the thorax chestnut, the sides 

 of the abdomen, the under surface of the body, and part of the wings reddish 

 cinnamon-rufous, and the upperside of the forewing and the spots of the hindwing 

 washed with the same colour. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab. Bahamas. 



In the Tring Museum 2 cJc?, 1 ? from Nassau, Bahamas (Sir G. Carter). 



This is perhaps only a local race of fer.m. Ordinary tersa occurs on Cuba, 

 Florida, etc., and is apparently a wanderer in the Nearctic llcgion. 



059. Xylophanes turbata. 



CItocrocampa lurhata Edwards, Ent. Aiiur. iii. p. S'.l (I8S7) (Vera Cruz) ; Btutcnm., Bull. Ainei: 

 Mks. N. H. iv. p. 170 (1892) (three specim. ex coll. Hy. Edwards) ; Druce, in Biol. Centr. 

 Amer., Lep. Het. f<tq>pl. p. 304. n. 3 (a), t. 6G. f. 6 (18%) (Vera Cruz ; Belize, Brit. Honduras). 



Therelra tub<a<i, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 656. n. 78 (18',12). 



?. External spur of midtibia shorter than internal. Head and thorax with a 

 dark olive shade along the white lateral strijje. Pattern of forewing distinctive : 

 discal lines 1 and 2 forming together a prominent band which reaches to the tip of 

 the wing ; lines 3 to 7 thin, 4 being barely more prominent than 3 and U. 



c? and early stages not known to us. 



Hab. Central America : Mexico ; British Honduras. 



In the Tring Museum 1 ? , ex coll. Hy. Edwards, received from the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



66U. Xylophanes elara. 



*Chiiertimnipa clam Druce, Eiil. .l/o. .Mat), xiv. p. 24'.l (1878) (Paraguay ;— cull. Druce). 



*Chaavcampa clkh^s Muschler, IV/-/,. Z. B. Ges. Wini xxxii. p. 332. t. 18. f. 47 ( ? ) (1882) (Suri- 

 nam ; — coll. Staudinger). 



Theretni.dklus, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 667. u. 93 (1892). 



Darapsa clara, id., Lc. p. 671. n. 7 (1892). 



*riierrtm ijemrn/h Rothschild, Nov. Zooi.. i. p. 77. t. 5. f. 12 (c^) (1894) (Aroa, Veuezuela ;— Mus. 

 Tring). 



