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Mr. Louis B, Prout on the 
74. Hammaptera tenera (Warren). 
Hammcoptera tenera, Warren, Nov. Zool., vii, 178 (1900). 
Parana, Entre Rios (type and others), in coll. Roths¬ 
child ; Tucuman, in coll. Dognin, coll. Bastelberger et coll. 
Br. Mus.; Buenos Aires, one $ taken in a “plaza” (scjuare) 
in the city, June 18, 1902 (A. F. Bayne), in coll. L. B. 
Prout; La Plata City, a good $ taken July 4, 1903 (A. F. 
Bayne), in coll. L. B. Prout. 
I have also examples from Sapucay, Paraguay, July 
1902, and have seen it from S.E. Brazil. 
This and the following species, though well distinguish¬ 
able one from the other in the shape of their median 
band, etc., are both very closely akin to the common 
parinotata, Zell. (Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxii, 495 ; anoinala, 
Butl., P. Z. S., 1878, 491) of North and Central America 
and the West Indies, and either or both of them might 
well form a local race of it. I formerly thought it was 
tenera which should sink to parinotata, and it is certain 
that the more northerly specimens quoted by Warren 
{loc. eit.) with his Argentine tenera, really belong to Zeller’s 
species; but on a close comparison I find an even more 
exact correspondence between (especially in its 
Jamaican forms, anomala, Butl.) and nigrolineata, Warr. 
It is evidently best for the present to keep the three 
names separate. 
75. Hammaptera nigrolineata (Warren). 
Hammaptera niqrolineata, Warren, Nov. Zool., xi, 52 
(1904). 
? Hammaptera fumida, Warren, Nov. Zool, xii, 47 
(1905). 
Tucuman, in coll. Dognin et coll. Bastelberger. 
Sapucay, Paraguay, is the only other locality known to 
me for the typical form; I have seen many examples from 
there. But Warren’s H. fumida, from Chanchamayo, Peru, 
seems to be only a slight local modification of it, and I 
have pointed out under the preceding species that it is 
quite likely H. parinotata (Zell.) = anomala (Butl.) is 
another local race, though it is slightly smaller and 
perhaps more slender in build. 
