( 121 ) 



? . Not dissected. 



Early stages unkuown. 



Ilab. Chanchamayo, Pern ( riiamm) : 1 S received from Messrs. Standinger 

 & Bang-Haas ; 1 ? from Yungas, La Paz, Bolivia, 14. xii. 99 (Garlepp). Also in 

 the Standinger collection. 



Easily distinguished from maara by the black thoracic stripes, and the much 

 more distinctly marked forewings, from liiijens and allies by the golden metathoracic 

 spots. 



92. Hyloicus justiciae. 



*Sphiux justiciae Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. i[. viii. p. 220. n. 12 (1856) (Rio de Janeiro ;— Mus. 

 Brit.) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. hep. Het. i. p. 88. n. 2,3 (1875) (=o«teras ; Rio de J.) ; Butl., Tran«. 

 Zool. Soc. Loml. ix. p. 619. n. U (1877) (Rio de J.) ; Burm., Descr. Rep. Argent, v. p. 324. n. 4 



(1878) (Buenos Ayres ; N. Friburgo ; descr. of larva); id., I.e. Alias p. 30. t. 11. f. 3 (/.) 



(1879) ; Kiiliy, Cut. Lep. lid. i. p. G91. n. 12 (1892); Schaus, Ent. News vi. p. 143 (1895) 

 {^anteros). 



Sjiliin.r anteros Menetries, Enum. Corp. Anim. Miis. Pitr., Leji. p. 131. n. 1478. t. 12. f. 1 (1857) 

 (N. Friburgo) ; Butl,, I.e. n. 10 (1877) ; Kirby, I.e. a. 13(1892), 



6 ? , Fringe of abdominal tergites orange yellow near the mesial line. 



cJ. Harpe resembling somewhat that of lugens, not serrate, with one apical 

 tooth (PI. XXXVIII. f. I) ; tenth stornite ronnded triangular, middle sinns barely 

 vestigial. 



? . Not dissected. 



Larva green, with seven side-bands, which are reddish violet in front, white 

 behind, continued to the next segment, but this prolongation vellow ; thorax 

 grannlose. — Food : JiiHticia, family Acmithaceue. 



Pupa mentioned by Burmeister, but uot characterised. 



llab. Province of Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Ayres, probably extending farther 

 north. 



The species is not mentioned liy Brmninghausen in his List of the Sjihiiiyiihte 

 of Kio de Janeiro, 



We have only one cj in tiie Triiig Museum. 



93. Hyloicus merops. 



*Sjiliinx mernps Boisduval, Cons. Lep. Gnat. p. 73 (1870) (Honduras; Mexico; — coll, Charles 



Oberthiir); Butl,, Trans. Zool. Soe. Loud, ix, p. 019. n, 11 (1877); Schaus, Ent. News vi. 



p. 143 (1895) (northern form of justiciae). 

 S/iliiiij- luijens, Boisduval, Spiec. Gen. Lep. Ilet. i, p, 87, n, 22 {lilb) (lugens = merops e.K err,) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Het. i, p. 081. n. 8 (1892) (partim). 

 Sphinx Justiciae, Druce (nan Menetrii's, 1803), Biol. C'entr. Amer., Lep. Het. i. p. 23. n, 3 (1883) 



(common in Centr, Am.,Me.Kico to Panama) ; id., I.e. Suppl. p, 318(1890) ; Pitt, & Bioll,, Lep. 



Ilet. Costa Rica p, 12 (1897), 



c? ?. Fringe of abdominal tergites without orange-3'ellow spots. 



S. Haq)e nearly as in (jeiiutnta, shorter, dorsal and distal margins dentate. 

 Lolie of tenth sternite less triangular than in jiisticitie. 



?. Vaginal i)late (PI. XX. f 24) intermediate between those of geminiis and 

 sepamtits, more wrinkled tlian in eitiier species, and the distal lateral margins 

 more slanting. 



Early stages of this common insect uot described. 



llab. Mexico southward to Ecuador. 



