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GauTiP,. S. and A- Fringes fawn color, and the extreme marginal 

 edge of the wing, dark brown, particularly at the anal angle. 

 Beneath, the wings are wholly dull reddish, (inclining to chestnut) 

 at their base, with pale central band, and margins again slightly 

 darker. Pale shades of apex of primaries repeated. Head and 

 thorax olivaceous. Abdomen reddish with olive tint, darkest 

 towards the posterior extremities. Palpi whitish, as are also the 

 base of the legs. The lower side of the abdomen has the seg- 

 ments narrowly edged with whitish. 



Exp. wings. 40 m. m. Length of body 25. m. m. 



Georgia. H. K. Morrison. 



Types. Coll. B. Neumoegen. H. Strecker. 



This is the species figured by Mr. H. Strecker in Lepid. 

 Rliop. et Hetcroc. as P. ganrce. Sm. Abt., but it is certainly not 

 that species, as it has no black band upon the secondaries so 

 observable in P. gaura\ In the original description, Smith says of 

 P.gauro' : "Alis dentatis; primoribus olivaceis dualis albidis puncto 

 disci deltoideo; posticis ferrugineis striga pallida extremis nigris, 

 margine albo." Now both the black band and the white margin 

 are absent in the present species, the general color is much red- 

 der, and the wings less dentated, shorter than in the figure of 

 P. gaura;, and of a different shape. P. gaiiro^ more closely re- 

 sembles P. Jiianita of Strecker, in fact, the latter is P. gating, 

 with the secondaries orange instead of rusty red, as in Sm. Abb. 

 figure. 



Cautethia Gkotei. n. sp. 



General color of primaries, brown black, with a grayish tint. 

 Basal space blackish, enclosed by a double, indistinct, black line. 

 Discal mark, velvety black. Posterior double line also black, the 

 inner one bent forward very suddenly towards the costa, from 

 the subcostal nervure, the outer one nearh- straight for its costal 

 half, and sharply dentate on the nervures. The submarginal 

 line has a grayish white shade behind it, continuing to the edge 

 of the wing, and there is also a blotch of the same color near 

 the centre of the internal margin. Fringes alternately black 

 and gray. Secondaries rich bright orange for the basal two 

 thirds. Marginal band brown, moderate in width. Underside 

 brownish, flecked with white scales, the base of secondaries dull 

 orange along the abdominal margin. Thorax and abdomen 

 grayish with black scales, the fifth and seventh segments banded 

 with darker shades as in Macroglossa. Antenna; dusky black. 



Fxp. wings. 33. m. m. Length of body, 18. m. m. 



Indian River. Florida. 



Several examples, all constant to the description. This 

 species has been confounded with CaiitetJiia {(Enosanda) 

 noctuiforviis. Walk, and has been distributed by Mr. Neumoegen 

 and myself under that name. It was also so quoted by Mr. 

 Grote in his Sphingidae of Cuba, a specimen of the present 



