( 70 ) 



.Syi/iirtj: i-eslii (1), Boisdiiv:il, l.r. p. 72. n. 4 (IST.v) (partim ; Paraguay). 



*S/ihiHX miitiiimif id., I.f. p. 7.'). n. 7 (1H75) (Colombia ; -coll. Charles Obortliui). 



*Siihin.r liilxiti id., I.i: p. 78. n. 10 (187.")) (partim ; Paraguay ;— coll. Charles Oberthur). 



*Pr(itiipanv gri.wiila Butler, Proc. Zanl. Sor. Loiiil. p. 2^)9 (1875) (Venezuela; — Mus. Brit.); id., 



Trails. Xool. S„e. l.imil. ix. p. HdS. n. 14. (1877). 

 Prnliiimrir /la/iliiis, Butler, l.r. ix. p. Gl)8. n. 13 (1877) ; Druce, Biol. (Jnitr. .liii., Lrp. ITd. i. p. 21. 



n. 5 (188.S) (Panama ; Guiana) ; Kaye, Tninx. Ent. S„r. Lnml. p. i:«) (HUll) (Trinidad). 

 Prnlnpiiirr rarnViwi. Druce, l.r. p. 21. n. :i (1883) (partim) ; id., I.e. Suji/il. p. 315 (1800); Pitt. & 



Bioll., Lep. Ilet. Ct.Ma liini p. 12 ( 181)7). 

 Priilii/iiirri' ianuiimixi.i, Urace, l.r. p. 21. n. 4 (1.S83) (partim ; Chiriqui, Piinama) ; id., I.e. Sujipl. 



p. SIT) (1H96) : Pitt. & Bioll., /.-•. ( 18'.I7) (San Jose) 

 PhkuHhinlins Mxia, Kirby, /.'■. p. 688. n. 13 (1892) (partim). 

 I'liUiiftliimliii.i iiirotuuiiir, id., l.r. p. 089. n. 24 (1892) (Colombia). 

 I'hlrgilhniiliti!! grigeatii, id., I.e. n. 2(i (1892) (Venezuela). 

 Prottiparce nieofiannr, Scbaus, Kiif. Nnrx vi. p. 142 (lH9.o) (= jitmiiirniKin'). 

 Phlr;ielhoiiliuK raridimi, Bonninghausen, I.e. p. Ill (1899) (Rio Grande do Sul). 



c??. White snbraargiuiil line of forewiug less jiromiiieiit than in the preceding 

 form ; white bands of hind purer white. Ground colour of forewing variable, 

 sometimes as pale as in cacstri. Size also obviously variable. 



c?. Dentate lobe of harpe narrow (PI. XXXVI. f .5). 



Larva without lines of black dots. 



Bcinningliausen, I.e., remarks tliat the North American rnrolina does not occur 

 in trojiical iSonth America, but is found again in Hio Grande do Sul ; he records, 

 liDwever, /xipliiis from Rio do Janeiro, whicli is the same species. Such apparent 

 anomalies in the distribution of sjiecies as the one mentioned by Biinningliauseu 

 disajijicar in most cases on closer examination, not being founded on fact, but on 

 the mistaken identity or specific distinctness, as the case may be, of geographical 

 races of the same species. 



Hub. Costa Rica to Argentina. 



In the Tring Museum 80 odd specimens from various places, also a series of 

 caterpillars. 



fl. P. sexfa caestri. 



S/jhinx raextri Blanehard, in Gay, Uist. Chili, vii. p. 52. t. 5. f. 9 (1854) (fiq. main ; Chile). 



SjihiiLr euryloeliiis Philippi, Lhiii. Eiitoiii. xiv. p. 273. n. 13 (18fi(l) (Chile). 



S/ihiiix crtilri (!), Boisdnval, Spec. Gen. Lqi. Hit. i. p. 72. n. 4 (1875) (partim ; Chile). 



*Spliiiix lahari Boisduval, I.e. p. 78. n. 10 (1875) (partim ; Chile ;— coll. Charles Oberthur). 



Protopurce eunilnrhux, Butler, Trims. Zool. Hue. Land. ix. p. C07. n. 8 (1877) (= nieslri?) ; Kirby, 



Ciil. Lep. Ilel. i. p. (388 n. 20 (1892). 

 Priiliiporre raeslri. Calv.-Bartl., Cut. Lrp. Chile p. 12 n. 90 (1H8(1) (= emiihirhnx) ; Kirby, /..■. p. 68!) 



n. 21 (1892). 

 Pmtoparre tabari, Kirby, /..■. n. 32 (1892). 



c? ? . A small and very pale form. The white submarginal line of tlie forewing 

 is vestigial or absent, the black diseal line rallier jirominent on the pale groinid. 

 The white dorsal diits of the abdomen are coiisiiii'iiuiis. Sexual armature as in 



pilj)lli(,S. 



I lab. Chile. 



A series of Jc?, 5 ? ? in the Tring Museum. 



38. Protoparce aflflicta. 



Sphinx pajihw (/), Herrich-Scbiiffer, Cnrresji. HI. iii. p. 59 (186.5) (Cuba). 



Sphinx iiffliein Grote, Proe. Ent. Sue. Philml. v. p. 71 (1865) (Cuba) ; Boisd., Sjiee. Gin. Lip. Hit. 

 i. p. 77. n. 9 (1875) (Cuba : Haiti). 



