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Hab. Venezuela ; Colombia ; Ecuador. 



In the Tring Museum 23 JcJ, 11 ?? from: Merida, Venezuela (Brifeno : 

 t>/jM') ; Aroa, Venezuela ; Cbiriqui ; Kio Dagua, Colombia (llosenberg) ; Paramba, 

 Ecuador (Rosenberg). 



A series in coll. Charles Oberthiir. Also in other collections, generally mi.\ed 

 up with some other species. 



48. Protoparce tucumana spec. nov. (PI. V. f. 6. S). 



(S ■ Similar to small specimens of 1'. pelleniu and scutata; head, thorax and 

 forewing decidedly paler ; stigma, the pale lines of the forewiug, and the fringe 

 almost white, not yellowish. Metanotum white in front. Abdomen above without 



white dots at the apices of the segments, underside somewhat bufBsh. Forewing, 



above : the black discal patches C — R' contiguous, closer to cell than in the allied 

 species ; discal double line outside the black patches sharply angled at R^, the 

 interspace between the two lines more or less white, these discal lines and the 

 postdiscal one, which is also partly bordered with white, obviously concave between 

 (' and R^ the posterior portion of the {wstdiscal line, between M^ and internal 

 margin, sharply defined, continuous, thinner behind, the space inclosed by it 

 whitish. 



c?. Tenth abdominal tergite slenderer than in scutata ; harpe intermediate 

 between that oi pellenia and scutata, i\xQ large dentate lobe more curved than in 

 the former, very much less so than in the latter (PI. XXXVl. f H.)). 



? . Unknown. 



Early stages unknown. 



Hab. Tucuman. 



1 S {type) in Mus. Tring ; another S from Salta in the Museum at Buenos 

 Ayres ; a third from Paraguay in the Mns(5e Royal d'Hist. Nat., Bruxelles ; a foiu'th 

 in the collection of Herr Neuburger, Berlin. 



40. Protoparce ochus. 



*SphinT nrhux Klug, Xnu Srhm. i. p. 4. t. 3. f. 2 (183(i)(Mexico ; — Mus. Berlin) ; Boisd., Coiix. Lrji. 



Gmttemida p. 74 (1870) (Houduras) ; id., Rpcc. Gen. Lqt. Hel. i. p. 82. n. IC (1875) (Me.xico ; 



Honduras). 

 MiirriiKiUi instila Clemeas Jnimi. Ac. S,i. Phihiil. (2) iv. p. 164. n. 57 (185;0 (Honduras). 

 Mm-riiHila iii-hm, Grote, Friic. Knt. i-ioc. PhiUid. v. p. 08 (1865). 

 /'rot>,jiarce nrkuK, Butler, Truni. Xaitl. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 607. n. 6 (1877) ; Druce, Biul. Cfiilr. Aiiicr., 



I.fji. Iht. i. p. 20. n. 2 (188S) (Mexico; Cordova; Jalapa ; Houduras; Guatemala; Costii 



Rica) ; id., I.e. Sup/A. p. 314 (18'.l(;) (Cuesta de Misautla ; Orizaba ; Tabasco ; Belize ; Costa 



Rica) ; Pitt. & Bioll., Lej,. 11,1. Vnxla Ilim p. 11 (1897) (Irazu) ; Kaye, Tmna. Enl. S„c. Lund. 



p. 13'J (1901) (Trinidad). 

 I'hlnjffhonfnix whus, Kirby, Col. Up. IlH. i. p. 688. n. 11 (1892) (Mexico ; Honduras) ; Rothscb , 



Nov. ZooL. i. p. .-,41 (1894) (Aroa). 



rf ? . A strange-looking insect on account of tlie ciayish tawny ochraceous colour 

 of the npperside of the forewing and thorax and of the occiimt. The jialpns is 

 siuiiiar in shape to that of rmtka ; the antenna of the ? shows distinct traces of 

 fftHciiuIated ciliae. The first segment of the foretarsus has externally 5 or B longer, 

 moderately stout, spines, and a number of smaller ones. Without pulvillns. 



i. Tenth abdominal tiTgite (PI. XXVII. f. i:i. 14) strongly convex at 

 end, hooked, pointed; the sternite bent upwards al end, sinuate, the two lolies 



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