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llab. Troiiical ami JSubtropiual America, as lav iiovLli as Texas and Florida ; 

 West Indies. 



A common s]it'cies. 



Ill the Trin^ Muscnm 8(i-odd S <5 , •"> ?? frum : Cnlia; Jamaica; various 

 localities from Mexico to Argentina and Sontliern Brazil. 



The descrijitiou oi penaciis, Lc, ajiplies better to the ? of this species than to 

 any other Sjjbingid ; the white dot on the forewiiig mentioned by Fabricius, is, 

 however, seldom distinct in the ? . 



As pointed out by Schaus, I.e., the true oenotrns is quite distinct from the 

 species confounded with it by Grote and others, and named by Schaus crameri. 

 Butler and Druce identified this crameri as omphaleae of Boisduval, but were wrong, 

 omjjimleac being a variety of lastsauxi. 



Sepp's figure oi' p/cta is doubtless a bad representation of the ? of ot'iiotriis. 



Boisduval's jjij/eris is not the same as Schaufuss's pipcris, this being a variety 

 of lassauxi. 



297. Erinnyis crameri (PI. X. f 5, d). 



Sphitix oenotrus, Anccn/x oeimtnts, D/lo/ihonotu ocnotrus auct. partim, imtt Cramer. 



Aiieei-ijj- miintrus, Boisduval, Sjin: Gen. Leji. llel. i. p. 129. n. 15 (1875) (Cayenue; Antilles ; Brazil). 



Eniiiii/is ur.notms, Grote (it'>n Cramer, 17H(I), Pmc. EiU. Sue. Pliilad. v. p. TO. t. 2. f. ij { J ) (1865) ; 



id. & Rob., I.e. p. 168. n. 110 (ISCS) (syii. partim). 

 Dih'phmiuUi oeniiliiis, Grote, I.e. vi. p. 'di'J (1807) ; id., Trans. Anicr. Ent. Soe. iii. p. 185 (1871) ; 



Burm., Dr.v-i: Rq,. Argnd. v., .1 //«.•,■ p. ."i-i. t. 12. f. 3 (/.) (1879) ; Gundl., Cuiifr. Enl. Cuhiina 



p. 219 (1882) ; BoQiiingh., Irh xii. p. 122. n. .-W (1899) (partim). 

 Dihiphiiiintii onijiliiihae, Butler (//oh Boisduval, 1870), Trunx, Zonl. Soe. Lmul. i.x. p. G0.3. n. 4 (1877) 



(Mexico; Haiti); id., Pick'. Zo«\ Sue. Lnml. p. 484. u. tiO (1878) (.Jamaica) ; Druce, in Biol. 



C'eiitr. Amer., Lep. Ilet. i. p 19. n. 2 (1881) (Mexico ; Nicaragua ; Chiriqui). 

 Dilophunota crameri Schaus, Enl. News is. p. 136 (1898) (= oenotrus auct. partim). 



c? ? . The se.xes are less dissimilar in pattern than in oenntriDi, from which 

 crameri is easily distinguished by the absence of black dots from the underside 

 of the abdomen, the jiale mesothoracic tegulae, the pale posterior area of the 

 forewing, and the more liroken and clearer-defined border of the hindwing. 



d. Tenth abdoiuinal sternite a little less curved than in oenotri/s. Process of 

 harpe a little longer and ajiically narrower. Dextro-hiteral dentate edge of penis- 

 sheath (PI. Llll. f. '.)) proximally less j)roduced tliati in oeiivtnis. 



Larva (according to Burmeister, I.e.) witliout longitudinal lateral stripe, very 

 finely striated with longitudinal, short, black dashes ; back brown, sides and nnder- 

 surface green ; first and third thoracic segments with red mesial patch, the latter 

 including a black spot ; horn very small. 



Chrysalis as in cllo. 



Hab. Troj)ical and subtropical America: West Indies; Mexico southward to 

 Paraguay. 



In the Tring Museum 32 c?cJ, 31 ? ? from : Cuba ; Jamaica ; Mexico ; t'osta 

 Rica; Colombia; Venezuela; British Guiana; Trinidad; Amazons (Bates); 

 Paraguay. 



298. Erinnyis obscura (PI. VIII. f. 6, ? ; 7. 8. 9, $$). 



Spliimr, ohseara Fiibricius, Sijsl. Enl. p. 5:i8. n. 6 (1775) (America); Goezc, /?/(«. /iei/h: iii, 2. p. 205. 

 n. 7(1780); Fabr., .S'/)f/-. his. ii. p. 142. n. 14 (1781); id., .1/.////. /;/.f. ii. p. 94. n. 16 (17H7) ; 

 Gmel., S;/sl. N<(l. i. 5. p. 2875. n. 58 (1790) ; Fabr., Ent. Si/sf. iii. 1. p. 361. n. 17 (1793) (Amer. 

 insul. !). 



