( 70,5 ) 



S. Scaling of" antenna brown, creamy before hook. Wings and body yellowish 

 olive-green above, olivaceous ochre-yellow beneath, underside of abdomen whitish 

 grey. Thorax unicolorons ; abdomen with thin greenish olive mesial line. Fore- 

 wing : stigma black, discal lines straight, oblique, lines 1 to 3 feebly marked, 4 much 

 heavier, o from tip, not distinct except in front, (3 scarcely traceable ; outer margin 

 strongly concave below apex, then convex. Basal half of hindwing black. On 

 underside there is a greyish black triangular patch behind cell, entering cell a little, 

 a discal line corresponding to line 4 of upperside accentuated by a dot at costa, the 



apical line indistinct. Hindwing with two discal lines, the first touching cell 



indistinct, the second a continuation of the line of forewing, not so strong. 



cJ. Tenth tergite truncate, distinctly sinuate ; sternite narrow, tapering to a 

 point, distally narrower than tergite. Process of harpe rather stout, extreme end 

 curved upwards, upper edge irregularly notciied. Penis-sheath (PI. LVIl. f. lo) : 

 a right-side jirocess, dentate, directed proximad, a long row of teeth on the left side, 

 the incrassate dorso-apical margin rounded. 



Early stages not known. 



Halt. Neotrojjical Kegion : Paraguay to Venezuela and Surinam. 



In the Tring Museum 1 <S from Aroa, Venezuela. 



In the Paris Museum 1 (^, 1 ? from Brazil. 



In coll. Druce from Paraguay (tf/pt! of elura) ; in coll. Staudinger from 

 Surinam {t'/pe of elicius). 



Biil. Xylophanes isaon (PI. VI. 1'. 11, S). 



*Chiiinjc<t/iijiii isaiin IJoisduval, Spec. din. Lip. ltd. i. p. 27:i. n. i)h (l.ST.'i) (Brazil ;— coll. Charles 



Oberthiir). 

 T/irretm isaon, Kirby, Cat. L,p. lid. i. p. 057. n. 86 (IH'.ll.') ; Schaus, Ent. News ix. p. 1.35 (IK'.tS) 



(= iilicaccu). 

 *Tlia-etra olh-acca Rothschild, X(i\-. Zodi,. i. p. 77 (1894) (Sao Paulo ;— Mus. Tring). 



cJ ?. Antenna of ? witli rows of j)rolonged ciliae. Spurs of midtibia erpial in 

 length. Mesdthoracic tegula with a tawny line in middle ; a grey mesial line on 

 thorax, widening behind, continued on the abdomen by two widely separated and not 

 very distinct bauds, bordered dorsally each by a series of dots, which are often 

 connected by an indistinct line ; a distinct brown mesial line on abdomen. Of the 

 lines on the forewing the first and second are more or less merged together to a 

 iieavy band, line 'i thin and sejjarated from '- and 4 Ijy pale interspaces ; line 4 very 

 heavy, reaching the tip of the wing together with 5. Pale band of hindwing with 

 a faint reddish tint, not sharply defined. The obviously diverging grey lines of the 

 u]iperside of the body are a very distinctive character. 



S . Tenth abdominal tergite truncate-sinuate ; the sternite very slender, being 

 narrower than the tergite, obtusely pointed. Process of harpe very slender, curved 

 upwards, subcylindrical, apex comjjressed and more or less dentate. Dorsal edge of 

 ]ienis-sheath incrassate, forming an irregular horseshoe, of which the left arm is 

 the longer ; each arm ending in a dentate ridge or lobe (PI. LVIL f. 2n). 



Early stages not known. 



llah. Neotropical Kegion : Brazil. 



In the Tring Museum '.'> i S , ^') ? ? from: Sao Paulo: Leopoldiua, Espirito 

 Santo. 



