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genns, — though the characters in which it is said by its original definer to differ 

 from Protoparce are not valid. 



We emphasise that the genital armature of CId. jasmineancm is identical with 

 that of Protoparce JJore&tan. The opinion that specifically distinct insects are 

 always different in the sexual armature is erroneous ; insects identical iu those 

 organs may l.)e different not only specipcaUi/ bnt also (/enrrii-alli/. < 



Hah. America, from Canada to Argentina. 



Key to the s[)ecies : 



Foretarsus without obviously prolonged 



sj)ines ...... G7. Ckl. jasminearam. 



Foretarsus with obviously prolonged spines 68. Chi. undata. 



07. Chlaenogramma jasminearum. 



Sphinx jasmhieiirniii. Gue'rin, Ix. p. 494. t. 84. f. 1 (/.). \a (/.) (1829-44) (Am. bor.) ; Gray, in 

 Griff., An. Kiiigil. xv. t. 83. f. 1. la (1832) (copy of Giu-r.'s plate) ; Wil.s., Ewi/rl Brit. 

 ed. viii. t. 236. f. 5. 6 (185,"^); Clem., /o«™. Ac. Nal. Sci. Phihul. iv. p. 173. n. 71 (1859) 

 (Long I. ; N. York ; Penn.) : Morris, Ott. Lep. -V. Am. p. 19 (1860) ; Clem., in Morris, Hijn. 

 L<p. X Am. p. 198. n. 9 (1862) ; Walk., Lhl Lep. Lis. B. M. xxxi. p. 36 (1864) ; Grote & Bob., 

 Proc. Ent. Snr. Philad. v. p. 165. n. 91 (1865) (N. York : Penn.) ; Boisd., Sjiec. Oiii. Lip. IIH. 

 i. p. 114. n. 56 (1875) (Am. sept. ; on Fraxinus) ; Struck., Lep. Rhup. Het. p. 115. t. 13. f. 14 



(1876) (larva descr. ; N. York ; N. Jersey ; Penn. ; etc.) ; Butl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lumt. i.x. 

 p. 618. n. 4 (1877) ; Mart., Trans. Dcpt. Agr. lUht. xviii. .[pp. p. 103 (1880) ; Pil., Pap. ii. 

 p. 66 (1882) (Dayton, 0., 1 S)- 



IJiliidia jasminearum, Grote, List Lep. N. Am. p. 4 (1868) ; id.. Bull. Buffalo Soc. N. Sri. i. p. 25 

 (1874) ; id., /..-. ii. p. 227. n. 49 (1875) ; Butl., I.e. p. 640 (1877) ; Grote, / c. iii. p. 224. n. 60 



(1877) (N. York ; Penn.) ; id. Camid. Ent. xviii. p. 134. u, 59 (1886) (Georgia, northward) ; 

 id., Huiok-.Moths N. Am. p. 39 (1886) (Long I., rare in Middle States, not comui, iu South) ; 

 Edw., Bull. U. St. Nat. ibis. xxxv. p. 45 (1889) (lit; rel. to transf.). 



Sj)liin.r Jasminearum (!), Boisduval, I.e. t. 1. f. 4 (/.) (1875). 



Chlaniiiijruntnw jasminearum, Smith, Ent. Amer. iii. p. 154 (1887) ; id., Traus. Am. Enl. Soe. Lund. 



XV. p. 199. t. 10. f. 2 (genit.) (1888) (N. York : N. Jersey ; Penn. ; Maine (?) ; Canada (V) ; 



Marjld. ; Georgia): Dyar, in Riley, Lns. Life iii. p. 322 (1891) (N. York, electr. light); 



Beutenm., Bull. Amer. .Uus. N. H. vii. p. 306. t. 6. f. 3 (i.) (1895) (short descr. of i., p., l). 

 *.\Iaurosila rolundah Rothschild, Nov. ZooL. i. p. 90. t. 7. f. 17 (1894) (hab. ?— Mus. Tring). 



S ?. Anal angle of forewing rather less prominent than in Protoparre^/Zorestan, 

 hhu^k longitudinal streak IV — M' generally prolonged to postdiscal line or even 

 to niargin, which is very rarely the case in /-". Jiorentait, second streak, M'— M', 

 iiK-oiispicuouK. 



S. Tenth alidominal tergite (PI. XXVII. f. 31) jirismatically compressed, 

 highest before end, curved ventrad, pointed ; sternite gently curved in side-view 

 (I'l. XXVll. f. 15:^), almost flat, the edges slightly turned uj)wards, underside 

 iecljly convex, the lobe somewhat narrowed towards end, mesially incised, the 

 two halves rounded. Clusper (PI. XXXVI. f. '.)) almost straight dorsally from 

 base to apical fourth, then slanting, the dorso-apical miirgin bent inward; harpe 

 roin]d<-il, concave, the distal edges turned up, densely denticulate. A]iical tootli of 

 penis-sheath horizontal, conical, jwinting dextro-laterad, nearly as in Protoparce 

 pe.lamae (I'l. XXIX. f. ^5). 



?. Vaginal jilate rounded distally, smooth, not sc.ded ; proximal edge pro- 

 trndiiij: above the membrane connecting the plate with the seventh sternite : 

 vaginal orilice median, covered by a transverse projecting fold which is shallowly 



