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Early stages not known, at least not described ; larva on Anacarditim, Spondia, 

 Erythroxylon, Comocladia, etc. 



Hab. Cuba to Mexico, southward over the continent and the West Indian 

 Islands to Southern Brazil ; not known from Argentina, but occurring doubtless in 

 the northern parts of the Kejiublic. — Common. 



In the Tring Museum 100-odd specimens from: Jamaica; Cuba; Haiti; 

 St. Vincent ; Mexico southward to Rio de Janeiro. 



142. Protambulyx carteri spec, nov (PI. LXVI. f. 3 : LXVII. f. 12, c?). 



<?. Agrees strncturall}- with A. striyilis ; but ditfers in the following points : 

 oblique lateral lines of abdominal tergites and lines of sternites absent or very faint. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing broader, apex less deeply sinuate ; disc with one line 



only, beginning at olive costal patch which stands between cell and subcostal fork, 

 a second discal line barely traceable; no snbmarginal line and no marginal band, 



but extreme edge of wing purple-brown. Hiudwing tawny as in ab. nibripennls 



of strigilis ; traces of two discal lines, the intermediate line being absent, brown 

 marginal band vestigial in upper half, rather better marked behind. 



L'nderside of wings very uniform in colour, similar to upperside of hindwing ; 

 first discal line vestigial on both wings, no other markings ; forewing somewhat 

 yellowish at base behind cell. 



Hab. Bahamas and Florida. 



In the Tring Museum 1 3 from Nassau, Bahamas, caught by Sir Gilbert 

 Carter, in whose honour the species is named. A second c? from Biscayne Bay, 

 Florida, sent for identification by the Kny-Scheerer Company. 



We are not sure that this insect is distinct ; it may be a subspecies of strigilis ; 

 but as the latter occurs all over the West Indies and Central and South America, 

 without being split up into geograj)hical races, it would be very remarkable if (and 

 is surely not probable that) it forms a special geographical race on the Bahamas 

 and in Florida. We expect strigilis to occur in these localities as well, and believe 

 that carteri is independent of it. The absence of structural differences is no proof 

 of the two being specifically the same. In Amplypterus gannascus audyjisilon we 

 do also not find structural differences. 



XLV. AMPLYPTERUS.-Typus: gatimscus. 



Sjihiiu- Stoll (imii Linne, I7.'>8), in Cram., Paji. Exol. S,i/ij>l. p. loT (1790). 

 Amphjijti'nts Hiibner, Vfrz. hel\ Srhm. p. 1.3.3 (1S22) (partim ; type : ganiiaKrnn). 

 Ambuli/.r Wiilker, List Lrp. Ins. IS. M. viii. p. 121 (IS.'ii;) (partim ; type: strirjiVm). 

 Amhti/plrnix (!), Smith, TniiK. Aiiiri: Eiit. So,: xv. p. (ill (188K). 



Differs from Pro/ambnli/.r as follows : 



6 ?. Frons almost vertical, forming an obtuse angle with tlie terminal surface 

 of the palpi, the latter projecting more than in Protambuli/x. Antenna longer and 

 stouter, end-segment short, barely twice as long as basally high, compressed, 

 obtuse, with a brush of long scales which project far beyond the end of the segment, 

 no long sensory bristles on end-segment, but ciliae long and densely together. All 

 tibiae much shorter than the respective first tarsal segments, with or without 



