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Several of tin- Neotropical Spliingidae were first described from the small 

 islands of 8t. Cliristopher, Antigua, and St. Cruz. We have not seen an}' 

 specimen from there. 



The four larger West Indian islands, Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, and Jamaica, are 

 not very different in their S]ihingid fauna from Central America, and agree closel}' 

 with that of the Bahamas and Florida. They form together a West Indian dis- 

 trict, cliaracterised by the absence of many Neotropical species and the occnrrence 

 of one genus and several species jieculiar to them, besides several subspecies. 



Apart from Florida, which has a number of North American Sphingidae, 

 there is no Nearctic element in the district. Au exploration of the Lepidopterous 

 fanna of Cuba and Haiti is a desideratum, the material in collections being 

 very .scanty. The species occurring are distributed as follows, those i)Pculiar to 

 the district being marked with an asterisk (•). The snbsjiecies in brackets are 

 given in the list to show the distribution of the species outside the district. 

 The North American species occurring in Florida are left out. 



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