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Sphinx riistiai, Scli;iller, Xaliiif. xxiii [i. 51). t. 1. f. li (1788). 

 CUmis pholarh, Kirby, Cat. Lrp. II, t. i. p. 702. d. 1 (1892) (partim). 



c??. A small specius, the larger e.xainples agreeing in size with the smallest 

 oenotrufi. The sexes are dissimilar, and have been treated us distinct species by 

 several authors. The sc.xuiil difl'ereiice in the t'orowing is nearly the same as in 

 elln, the c? possessing a longitndinal mesial band and an obli(pie jiosteriur distal 

 streak, which are not present in the ? , or are only vestigial in that sex ; or the 

 sexes are almost identical. 



S. Lobes of the tenth tergite jiointed, shorter than the long and slender 

 processes of the sternite. Process of harpe (PI. XLV. f. 22) long, somewhat 

 knife-shaped, obtuse or slightly sjiatulate, curved, notched or sinuate at end. 



Early stages not known. 



Hob. Tropical and subtropical America. 



Two subspecies, perhaps four. 



a. E. obscura conformis, subsp. uov. 



c? ? . Sexes similar; $ without a longitudinal streak on the forevving, and 

 having thorax as grey as the ?. Distal margin of hiiidwing rather darker in 

 upper half than in the ordinary form, and the ]iostdiscal line of dots more distinct. 



Hah. Galajiagos Is. : Albemarle, end of March to May 1902 (Beck) ; tifpe : 

 top of crater, S.E. Albemarle, 27. iii. 1902. 



In the Tring Museum \ SS,\ ? ?. 



h. A', obxritra obscura. 

 Sph'mx obscura Fabricius, I.e. 



Erimiyis slheim Hlibner, Siiiiiiid. E.r. Schin. iii. t. 37 (1824 V) (Sta. Cruz). 

 Anccnjx ohsciini, Walker, List Lep. Ills. B. M. viii. p. 226. n. 7 (1850) (partim) ; Clem., Juurii. Ac. 



N. Si:. Philail. iv. p. 176. d. 74 (18.59) ; id., in Mcrris, Syii. Lrp. N. Am. p. 201. n. 2 (1862) ; 



Boisd., Spec. h'en. Up. Hit. i. p. 132. n. 20 (187.5) (Antilles); Moschl., Verli. Zool. Bot. Ges. 



Wien xxxii. p. 332 (1882) (Surinam). 

 AiKerijx st/ieiiii, Lucas, in Sagra, IIi.it. Cuba vii. p. 298 (ISSli) ; Dew., .\littli. Miuu-li. Ent. Ver. i. 



p. 92 (1877) (Porto Rico). 

 Eiiimyis piilliila Grote, Proc. Ent. Sue. Pldlwl. v. p. 78. t. 1. f. G ( J ) (18, ;5) (Cuba) ; id. & Rob., 



ibid. p. 108. D. 113(1865). 

 DiUiplimivIa piillijii Grote, l.c. vi. p. 329 (1867) (Cuba) ; Grote, Trans. Amcr. Ent. Sue iii. p. 18.5 



(1871) (Cuba) ; Butl., Tmnn. Zool. Soc. Land. ix. p. 004. n. 8 (1877) (= 'i ijutlnrulis) ; Gundl., 



I.e. p. 225 (1882). 

 Erinnyis cinemsu Grote & Rob., Pruc. Ent. Sue. Philad. v. p. 108. n. 71 (1865) (iiom. imlescr.) \ 



Grote, Ann. Lye A'. York viii. p. 201 (1867) (Cuba). 

 DilophonoUt obscura, id., Bull. Buffalo Sue. N. H. i. p. 27 (1874) (Pennsylvania) ; id., I.e. ii. p. 228. 



n. 68 (1875) ; Bntl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lotul. ix. p. 604. n. 7 (1877) (Mexico ; Haiti) ; Druce, 



in Biol. Crnlr. Anirr., Lep. IIcl. i. p. 19. n. 4 (1881) (Mexico ; Chiriqui) ; Grote, I.e. iii. p. 225. 



n. 71 (1877) (Pennsylvania; S. Carolina); i'\.,Canatl. Ent. xviii. p. 136. n. 90 (1886) (S. Slates); 



Smith, Trans. Aoar. /Cut. Sac. p. 157 (1888) (Pa?; Texas); Kirhy, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 697. 



n. 13 (1892) ; Rotliscb., Nov, Zom,. i. p. 75 (189-1) (partim) ; Druce, /..-. Siippl. p. 313 (1890) 



(Mexico ; Gu.atemala) ; Grant, Caiiad. Ent. xxx. p, 264 (1898) (Orillia, ()., Sept. 20). 

 *Aiicflryx rhai'bns 15oisdu\'al, Consiil. Up. Guatemala p. 72 (1870) (Honduras ; Mexico) ; id., Spec. 



Ghi. Up. Hit. i. p. 131. n. 18 (1875). 

 l)iloplu,wilasthrno,ij\mi\a.c\\, t.c.p.-i2\ (1882); liOtmingh., Iris xii. p. 121. n. .35 (1889) (Rio de 



Jan.). 

 VUiiphmiola rluicbiis, Druce, I.e. p. 19. n. 5 (1881) (partim). 



<??. Sexes dissimilar, the S having a darker tliorax tiian the ?, and 

 IKJHBPHsiiig on the forewing a blackish streak which runs from the base towards the 

 ajiex. 



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