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It should not be regarded as a distinct species ; it is not only 

 considerably smaller than our examples of 5. chersis, but the pri- 

 maries are comparatively shorter and the coloration decidedly 

 bluer in character. 



Sphinx perelegans. H. Edw. 



Although nearly allied to 5. chersis, this species (in the pat- 

 tern and coloration of the secondaries) takes a step in the direc- 

 tion of 5. leucophceata. 



Anceryx edwardsii, sp. n. 



Allied to A. fasciata Swainson, and A. alope Drury; the pri- 

 maries altogether blacker, more sericeous, the zigzag black lines 

 more equally angulated between second median branch, and inner 

 margin relieved by a white instead of a pale brown background, 

 the central black line on the dorsal abdominal band less strongly 

 defined than in A. fasciata, and therefore similar to that of A. 

 alope. Expanse 8i millimetres. 



Indian River, Florida. H. Edzv. 



Mr. Edwards sent a male example with note — " We have 

 called this Anceryx scyron, but think we must be in error. Will 

 you kindly tell me its real name," — and as it does not belong to 

 the scyron group (Genus Isognathus Felder) and moreover has 

 not hitherto been named to my knowledge, I have taken the lib- 

 erty of dedicating it to my excellent friend. 



Isognathus scyron is a species occurring in Surinam, of which 

 I have hitherto seen only one example, and that not in our col- 

 lection ; like my/, metascyron it has a red-brown abdomen banded 

 with black. 



Anceryx alope (unlike the species of Isognathus) has a 

 brownish white body transversely banded with black, and dor- 

 sally banded with dark grey striped with black, the anal segment 

 being of a reddish wood-brown color at the sides and black in 

 the centre ; the wings and thorax are pale red brown, but so 

 widely suffused and striped with dull slatey grey and black that 

 very little of the ground color appears, an oblique diffused streak 

 across the median interspaces and cut by the zigzag discal* lines 

 "whitey-brown (but not white) ; the secondaries are bright orange 

 to a little beyond the middle, the remainder being dull black 

 with the border very slightly greyish and a marginal series of 

 intense black dashes, or in other words an interrupted black mar- 

 ginal line : from this form Swainson's A. fasciata is distinguished 

 by its distinctly whiter body, paler primaries, which are often 

 largely varied with the red or whity-brown of the ground colors. 

 In A. Edivardsii, on the other hand, this reddish brown coloration 

 is confined to the thorax and the fringe of the wings. 



Cauthetia, sp. 



*' yEnosanda noctuiformis, Walk" on label. 



(Two examples) Indian River, Florida. 



I hope Mr. Edwards will describe this pretty little species ; it 



* Guenee and others have wrongly used this term instead of '■'■ discoidal" in speaking of mark- 

 ings upon the wing-cell. 



