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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  es 
  

  

  Food 
  plant. 
  — 
  Solanum 
  torvum, 
  Sw. 
  

  

  Immature 
  stages. 
  — 
  No 
  specimens 
  or 
  data 
  other 
  than 
  food-plant 
  

   record 
  available. 
  

  

  Distribution.— 
  CvRA 
  : 
  Baracoa, 
  Santiago 
  de 
  las 
  Vegas, 
  Habana 
  (June, 
  

   November) 
  . 
  Puerto 
  Rico 
  : 
  Coama 
  Springs 
  (April 
  ) 
  , 
  Bay 
  anion 
  (May) 
  , 
  

   San 
  German 
  (September), 
  Lares 
  (August), 
  Rio 
  Piedras 
  (August), 
  

   and 
  Utado. 
  Jamaica, 
  Grenada 
  (June), 
  Dominica 
  (June), 
  Virgin 
  

   Islands, 
  St. 
  Croix 
  (October, 
  November). 
  Mexico: 
  Cordoba, 
  Vera- 
  

   cruz 
  (April), 
  La 
  Gloria 
  Cordel, 
  Veracruz 
  (January). 
  Guatemala: 
  

   Cayuga, 
  Quirigua 
  (November). 
  Costa 
  Rica: 
  CariJlo 
  (March). 
  

   Panama: 
  Corozal 
  (November), 
  Carro 
  Saddle 
  (May), 
  Paraiso 
  (Feb- 
  

   ruary) 
  , 
  Porto 
  Bello 
  (April, 
  May, 
  November) 
  , 
  Rio 
  Trinidad 
  (March) 
  , 
  

   Taboga 
  Island 
  (March), 
  and 
  Tabernilla. 
  Peru: 
  Bonita, 
  Pura(?) 
  

   (July). 
  Brazil: 
  Viscosa, 
  Minas 
  Gerais 
  (October). 
  British 
  

   Guiana: 
  Bartica 
  (June), 
  Mackenzie, 
  Demarara 
  River 
  (June). 
  

   Dutch 
  Guiana: 
  Moengo 
  Boven, 
  Cottica 
  River 
  (May). 
  French 
  

   Guiana: 
  St. 
  Jean 
  Maroni. 
  

  

  Number 
  of 
  specimens 
  examined, 
  139. 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  — 
  Well-marked 
  specimens 
  resemble 
  small 
  examples 
  of 
  

   elegantalis, 
  dissolvens, 
  and 
  prophetica 
  but 
  are 
  easily 
  separated 
  from 
  

   them 
  by 
  the 
  very 
  short 
  pubescentlike 
  cilia 
  of 
  antenna. 
  Rubbed 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  also 
  easily 
  confused 
  with 
  imperialis, 
  the 
  species 
  that 
  follows, 
  

   which 
  has 
  similar 
  antenna 
  but 
  which 
  has 
  a 
  distinct 
  white 
  anterior 
  

   abdominal 
  band 
  not 
  possessed 
  by 
  torvis. 
  

  

  Paratypes 
  in 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  His- 
  

   tory, 
  Cornell 
  University, 
  Transvaal 
  Museum 
  (Pretoria, 
  South 
  Africa) 
  , 
  

   and 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  5. 
  NEOLEUCINODES 
  IMPERIALIS 
  (Gnenee) 
  

  

  Plate 
  7, 
  Figures 
  13 
  13a; 
  Plate 
  10, 
  Figure 
  21 
  

  

  Leucinodes 
  imperialis 
  Guen:6e, 
  Histoire 
  naturelle 
  des 
  insectes 
  Mpidopteres, 
  

   deltoids 
  et 
  pyralites, 
  p. 
  223, 
  1854. 
  — 
  Hampson, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  1898, 
  

   p. 
  756. 
  — 
  Klima, 
  in 
  Junk, 
  Lepidopterorum 
  catalogus, 
  pt. 
  94, 
  p. 
  304, 
  1939. 
  

  

  Leucinodes 
  (?) 
  discerptalis 
  Walker, 
  List 
  of 
  lepidopterous 
  insects 
  in 
  the 
  collec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  vol. 
  34, 
  p. 
  1313, 
  1865. 
  — 
  Klima, 
  in 
  Junk, 
  

   Lepidopterorum 
  catalogus, 
  pt. 
  94, 
  p. 
  304, 
  1939. 
  

  

  Leucinodes 
  discerptalis 
  Walker, 
  Hampson, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  1898, 
  p. 
  756. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Strongly 
  marked 
  specimens 
  resembling 
  small 
  specimens 
  of 
  

   elegantalis 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  wings 
  more 
  immaculate 
  and 
  the 
  rather 
  large 
  

   brown, 
  medial 
  patch 
  from 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  forewing 
  absent 
  or 
  hardly 
  

   discernible. 
  Transverse 
  anterior 
  line 
  of 
  forewing 
  brown, 
  rather 
  than 
  

   blackish 
  fuscous. 
  Abdomen, 
  thorax, 
  and 
  brownish 
  markings 
  of 
  wings 
  

   paler 
  than 
  elegantalis, 
  with 
  little 
  if 
  any 
  intermingling 
  of 
  dark 
  

  

  