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114. Larentia profugaria (Herrich-Scliaeffer). 
Larentia profugaria, Herrich-Schaeffer, Samml. Aussereur. 
Scbmett., i, fig. 410-11 (1855). 
Aspilates (?) hemichlorcda, Walker, List Lep. Ins., xxiv, 
1069 (1862). 
Larentia omphacina, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 
xlv, 179 (1901). 
Cidaria anteviridata, Thierry-Mieg, Le Nat., xxix, 259 
(1907). 
Tucuman, in coll. Bastelberger. 
Tbe species is cbietly known as Brazilian. Tbence 
came tbe types of hemiehlorafa, anteviridata, omphacina and 
pvohahXy tbongb by an evident mistake Herricb- 
Scbaeffer recorded it as from “ North America.” It was 
partly tins error, no doubt, wbicb misled Dognin into 
redescribing tbe South American insect as omphacina. 
There is, however, a good deal of variation in tbe species, 
though not such as to I'aise any doubts in my mind as to 
tbe specific identity of tbe different forms. 
The generic position of profugaria is a matter of some 
perplexity, as it seems to present no salient features for 
generic differentiation and yet tbe facies suggests that it 
should be sni generis. Of course it is only a “ Ijarentia ” 
in tbe comprehensive sense in which that name is used by 
Hampson—areole double, discocellulars of hind wing bian- 
gulate. The suggestian was made tentatively by Packard 
(Monogr., p. 212), merely from Herricb-Schaeffer’s figure, 
that it might belong to Chloraspilates, and this has been 
followed, without even a query, by Hulst in Dyar’s List N. 
Amer. Lep., 805 ; but it is of course altogether erroneous. 
115. Sarracena xanthochlorata (Walker). 
Sgharites xanthochlorata, Walker, List Lep. Ins., xxiv, 1427 
(1862). 
Tucuman, in coll. Dognin. 
Walker’s type was from Venezuela. It is believed that 
this form, in spite of tlie very differently coloured hindwing, 
is merely the ^ to Sarracena chlamydaria, H.-S., Samml. 
Aussereur. Scbmett., i, fig. 73 = Sarracena hrevilinea, Warr., 
Nov. Zook, xi, 524. But as there is no certainty about 
this at present, I have accepted M. Dognin’s record, which 
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