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Hab. Costa Rica, Pern, mid (Vilomliia, dmibtli'ss more widely ilistriliuted, Imt 

 rarer thau most Frotoparce. 



Ill the Trill"- Srnseum '2 i S from: l{io Diip;na ('oloml)ia (W. Knseiiberg): f'osta 

 Rica. 



The hjcality (Jauada given by Kirby fur dulica is erroneous. The specimen 

 came doubtless from Peru, perhajis from the same locality where leucospila was 

 found. 



~ cJ cJ ill coll. Charles Oberlliiir from: Juntas, Cauca, and Honda, I 'ninmbia 

 (Mathan). 



In coll. Staudint'er 2 <i iS from Pern : Chanchamavo and Huavabaiuba. 



58. Protoparce brontes. 



Sphhu- brontes Drury, lUustr. Ex. Ins. ii. p. 53 & Index, t. 29. f. 4 (177.3) (New York px en: !). 

 Sjihiiix 2>amphllhis Stoll, in Cram., Paji. Ex. iv. p 217. t. 394. f. E. (1782) (Surinam e.r err.) ; 



Grote, Prne. Enl. Sor. Philntl. v. p. 72 (ISllS) {=afflicta ?). 

 *.]larroi!ilii eiilhiria Walker, Lht Lep. lux. B. M. viii. p. 201. n. 5 (I8.06) (Jamaica : St. Domingo ;— 



Mus. Brit.). 

 Maerimh( hronfus, Grote & Rob., Trum. Amer. Enl. Sw. ii. p. 75 (1868) (= cullnris). 

 Dihulia hrnntes, Butler, Trails. Ziml. Sor. Loud. ix. p. G12. n. 1 (1877) (Jamaica ; Haiti) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 681. n. 1 (1892) (Jamaica ; Haiti ; " N. America" ex err. !). 

 Dihulia pampJillius, Butler, I.e. p. 613. n. 2 (1877) (= brontes (?) ; not afflicta). 



Though Drury's figure of brontes is not very good, it cannot lie referred to 

 anything else but the present West Indian species. Some authors have had doubts 

 on this point, chiefly on account of New York being given by Drury as the country 

 from whence the insect came. If these authors had looked more carefully over 

 Drury's work, as others have done, they would have noticed that the specimens in 

 Dr. Fothergill's collection — from which collection Drury figured brontes— were in 

 more than one instance erroneously labelled. On the same plate on which brontes 

 is figured the North American Fliolus achemon is also represented, and this species 

 is said to be from Jamaica ! Surely the localities of brontes and achemon were 

 interchanged in Dr. Fothergill's collection. 



c? ? . Antennae long, and in S very thick in comparison with the size of the 

 species. First segment of foretarsns much shorter than foretibia, without jirolonged 

 spines. With pulvillus. 



i . Tenth abdominal tergite very sharply pointed, hooked, compressed, barely 

 dilated laterally before hook, but somewhat ventrally ; sternite truncate, lateral 

 margins curved upwards at end, with the upper angles sharp, the sternite appearing 

 sinuate in an anal view. Clasper long and rather narrow, dorso-apical margin 

 strongly bent inward ; harpe triangular, pointed, ventral margin convex and then 

 concave, upper margin feebly rounded (PI. XXXVII. f. 16), denticulation minute. 

 I'pnJK-sheatli with an apical tooth, wliicli is different in the two subs[iecies 

 (I'l. XXIX. f. :il. S'!). 



?. Postvaginal plate strongly chitiuised, triangularly dilated mesially, apical 

 edge incrassate ; antevaginal plate very short, almost membranaceous, rugate or 

 folil(!d, mesially sinuate, forming a very low transverse ridge. 



Larva with obliipie side-liands, very similar to that of P. sexta jamaicensis, 

 spirii<:lcs, however, bright orange. 



I lab. Jamaica ; Porto Hico ; Haiti ; Cuba ; I'.aliamas ; Soutli Florida. 



Two suliKjiecies : 



