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Eld. Neics xi. p. 485. t. 10 (;.). 11 (//.,//.) (I'JOO) (life hist.) ; Kaye, Tran^. Enl. Soc. Lnml. 



p. 139 (1901) (Trinidad). 

 Mdcrosila rustiva, Walker, List Lrji. JtiK. B. M. viii. p. 199. n. '2 (1856) (St. Domingo; Jamaica ; 



Mexico : Brazil) ; Clem., Jnuni. Ac. N. Sc. Philail. (2). iv. p. 163. n. 56 (18."j9) ; Grote, I.e. 



vi. p. 329 (1807) (Cuba) ; id., Trans. Amer. Knt. tine. iii. p. 185 (1871) ; id., BitU. Buffalo Sue. 



N. Sc. ii. p. 227. n. 52 (1876) ; Gundl., Cuntr. Etit. Cuhuiia p. 2ri8 (1881) (Cuba ; larva, pupa). 

 Phhgethoiithis ru.itica, Grote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. N. Sc. iii. p. 224 n. 53 (1877) (Penn. ; Virg. ; 



South. States) ; Edw., Bull. if. St. Nat. Mits. xxxv. p. 45 (1889) (lit. rel. to transf.) ; Kirby, 



Cu^. Lrp. Hei. i. p. 687. D. 1 (1892)'; Roth.scb., Nov. Z<mil. i. p. 541 (1894) (Aroa). 

 Fhhrjrthuiitius ruslirus, Edwards, Ent. Amer. ii. p. 1G3 (1887) (pupa) ; Beutenm., Bull. Am. .llns. 



N. H. vii. p. 300. t. 4. f. 6 (1895) ; Kirby, in Allen, A'»(. Libr., .Moths iv. p. 43. t. 105 (/., i.) 



(1897). 

 Clauis phalaris, Kirby, Cnt. Lep. Ifet. i. p. 702. n. 1 (1892) (cit. Sohaller ex err.!). 

 Phlegetoulhis (!) rustiea,FeteTS,Illustr. Zeitselir. Eut. iii. Heft 22. t. 1. f. 5. ha. bh. he {l.,p.) (1898); 



Bi'inuingb., Iris xii. p. 111. n. 7 (1899) (Rio de Jan. ; larva on Bignonia and Heliotrop). 



t? ?. Tlie basal and discal areas of the forewing and the hiudwing are almo.st 

 black ill fresh specimens, while in faded individuals the forewing becomes more or 

 less pale rnsset. In one of our Aroa individuals the interspace G — M^ of the fore- 

 wing between the antemedian and the discal lines is verj' pale wood-brown, while 

 the interspace between the first and second discal lines has remained dark brown. 



Ilah. Continental America, except the North and South, and the larger West 

 Indian islands; common. 



Su odd specimens in the Tring Museum from : Balianias ; Haiti ; Jamaica : 

 and various jilaces of the (.'outinent. 



b. P. rustica liarterti. 



Siihiiix rusticei, Snellen, Tijdschr. Eiit. xxx. p. 33 (1887) (Cura9ao). 

 *l'hlegelhovtius liarterti Rothschild, Nov. ZoOL. i. p. 29 (1894) (Bonaire). 



(??. The diflPerence between this and the preceding form is very slight, but 

 coustant, the dark, triangular, discal area of the forewing being obviously paler in 

 all the specimens we have seen. 



JIalj. (!ura(;an ; Bonaire ; St. Vincent ; St. Lucia ; jirobably on all the Lesser 

 Antilles. 



In the Tring Museum 1 6, A ? ?, from : Bonaire (E. Hartert) ; St. Vincent ; 

 St. Lucia ; Barbados. 



Also in coll. Stiiudingor, from ( luracao : coll. Snellen, from furai^'ao ; Mus. 

 Dublin, from Barbados ; and in other collections. 



c. P. rustica calapagemis. 



Prolojiom eala/iageiisiii Holland, Proc. U. St. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 195 (1889) (Charles I.). 

 Syzijijia ealapaijiiiisis^ Kirby, Cat. Lep. IJet. i. p. 685. n. 2 (1892) (Galap.agos). 



<??. A smaller and paler insect than riiMica nif<tii'(i,. The tenth abdominal 

 tcrgite of the S not so distin(;tly sinuate, and the harpe shorter, than in rii.Hfiea 

 Tu.itira, otherwise the same. 



A S from Chatham L in tiie Tring Museum is abnornuil, having the body 

 above and the wings nearly entirely brownish black, exce])t tlie double series of 

 (lorHa! dots on tint alidoinen, the stigma of the forewing and the marginal sjiots of 

 txitli wings, whi(;li are white, l)esides feeble traces of white markings on both wings. 

 The firHt segment of the paljius is much less extended white tliiin in normal 

 "ppcimens. AVe call this aberrant individual — 



