( 370 ) 



Iloh. Trojiical and Subtropical America, occasionally nortliward to C^anada. 



Tlic fijiccimcns from the West Indies and the Continent belong ajiparently to 

 tlirce subsjiecics : 



1. Specimens from tlie Continent, Cuba and Haiti have the thorax brownish, at 

 least in front, and the brown markings and patches of the forewing distinct ; this is 

 Boisdnval's rliadiio, (PL VIII. f 0, ? ; 7, i). 



'Z. An individual without locality, in the Tring Musenm, agrees fairly well 

 with Hiibner's figure oi gt/ie>io, differing from Continental individuals in the forewing 

 being shorter, less elongate, and in the mesial basi-apical line being widely 

 iuterrujited on the disc, the apical portion joining the oblique streak which stands 

 before hinder angle, and forming thus a kind of subraarginal band. The harpe 

 of this specimen (PI. XLV. f 23) is also obviously different, being slenderer 

 and more spatulate than in Continental examples ; this may be true stheno 

 (PI. VIII. f. 9, (?). 



3. The specimens from Jamaica (PI. VIII. f S, 6) are very jiale in both sexes 

 on thorax and forewing ; the longitudinal streak of the forewing of the S is feebly 

 marked, and the oblique streak before hinder angle is absent ; the brown shading of 

 the forewing of the ? is less distinct than in the Continental ? , the Jamaica ? ? 

 agreeing nearly with the description of Grote's jtallida from Cuba. Our Cuba and 

 Haiti ? ? and those in the British Museum as well as S S and ? ? from Haiti in 

 the Paris Musenm are not essentially different from Continental examples. 



The types of obscut-a and stheno came from the West Indies : possibly obscura 

 and stheno are the same. More material from Cuba must be compared before it is 

 jiossible to say whether paUIJa is based on an abnormally pale ?, or whether the 

 pale Jamaica form occurs normally also in Cuba, perhaps in the eastern districts. 



In the Tring Museum 33 c?(J, 28 ¥ ¥ from : Jamaica ; Cuba; Haiti ; Mexico 

 southwards to Argentina and Southern Brazil. 



201). Erinnyis domingonis (PL VIII. f 12, ¥ ; 13, S). 



Ann-i-yj- (iisf«ca, W.ilker {>iiiii Fabricius, 1775), Lint Lep. Inx. B. M. viii. p. 226. n. 7 (18.51)) (pattim). 

 */)iInjiliniiatu ihiiii'wrjiims Butler, Pivc. Zonl. Sue. Luiii/. p. 258. n. 52 (1875) (Haiti ;— Mus. Brit.); 



id., Trans. Z,i„l. Sue. Loiul. ix. p. 004. n. 6 (1877); Kirby, Oil. Lep. Het. i. p. 097. n. 10 (1892) ; 



Schaus, Eiil. .Ycics- ix. p. 136 (1898) { = fistii). 

 Dilophonotd r/iiifhnu^ Druce (nmi Boisduval, 1875), in Biol. Ceii/r. Amei:, Lep. Ilet, i. p. 19. n. 5 



(1881). 

 Dilophmtota festii Edwards, Papilio ii. p. 11 (1882) (N.W. Texas; in coll. Neumoegen) ; Smith. 



Tram. Aiiier. Ent. Sor. xv. p. 101 (1888) (N.W, Texas); Kirby, I.e. p. 696. n. 4 (1892); Ottol., 



Eld. Xew.'i vi. p. 218 (1895) (Texas, iu coll. Neumoegen) ; Druce, Lc. SuppL p. 314. n. 5 (A) 



(18',I6) (.Jiilapa ; Costa Rica). 

 Diltiphiiimla iibxnirii ah. fesla, Rothschild, Nov. ZooL, i. p. 95 (1894). 



cJ ¥. Forewing in both sexes brownish black for the greater part, differing iu 

 this respect conspicuously from that of obscura, with which domingonis agrees in 

 the colour of the hindwing and in size ; a median and a larger subapical costal 

 patch and the distal marginal area more or less extended grey. The longitudinal 

 line of the i of obscura is also present in ilomingonis, bnt much less distinct, owing 

 to the dark colour of the wing. 



J. Sexual armature essentially as in obscura ; process of harjie less cnrved, 

 uneven at upper edge, and deeper notched at end. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab, West Indies ; Texas to Paraguay ; probably also Southern Brazil. 



