( 372 ) 



(1862) : Herr.-Sch., €om^i>. Blatt p. 59 (18(;5) (Cuba) : Miisch!., Verh. Ximl. But. Ges. Wirn 



xxvi. p. 346 (1K76) ; id., l.r. xxxii. p. 332 (1882) (SuriDam). 

 Erimi/ix ,v/;,'H.s, Grote, Proc. Eiit. Sar. Phllail. v. p. 72 (186;')) (Cuba) ; id. & Rob., Wid. p. 167. 



u. 106(1865). 

 Dilophnmta caiciis, Grote, \.i\, vi. p. 329 (1867) (Cuba) ; id., Tniiis. Amer. Eiit. Sac. iii. p. 185 (1871) 



(Cuba) : Butl., rraiis. Zoul. Sor. L„ml. ix. p. 605. n. 11 (1877) ; Druce, in Biol. Centr. Amer., 



Lrp. /fet.i.p. 20. n. 6 (1881) (Honduras; Chiriqui ; Ecuador); Gundl., C'o«^-. Eiit. Citliaim 



p. 224 (1882) (larva and pupa). 

 Chocrocanqia rairus, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 249. n. 30 (1875) (Cayenne ; Cuba). 



c? ?. The species is easily recognised by the pale lines behind end of cell nf 

 forewing, the bright rufous hindwing with the black distal band entirely separated 

 into vein-spots, and the sharply banded abdmuinal tergites. 



cJ. Lobes of tenth tergite about five times as long as broad in middle, obtase ; 

 processes of sternite longer than the tergal lobes, apex curved downwai'ds. Glasper 

 narrow, acuminate ; harpe slender, not distinctly dilated at end. Penis-sheath 

 similar to that of Erhini/is crameri. 



Hail. Florida ; West Indies ; Cenlral and Sontli America, as i\ir south as 

 Buenos Ayres. Not yet recorded from Mexico. 



In the Tring Museum 9 cJt?, 6 ? ? from : Florida ; Haiti ; Aroa, Venezuela; 

 British Guiana, vii. xii. ; Iquitos (.Stuart). 



Tribe Sesiicae. — Typus : Uucmorr/itujla titi/xs. 



Sesiidae Stephens, Illustr. Bril. Ent., Ilaust. i. p. 132 (1828) (partim ; type: Haemnrrhiij/id lili/iia). 



(J ? . Abdominal spines not uniseriate, or if uniseriate then thorax not double- 

 crested. End-spgment of antenna long or short, in the former case the midcoxal 

 merum angulate. 



Hub. Cosmopolitan, but only three genera in the Old World. 



20 genera ; 102 species. 



Key to the genera see p. 350. 



XCII. PAOHYLIA. 



Sphinx Linnt', Si/at. Nat. ed. x. p. 489 (1758) (partim ; type : ocellai'i). 



Eiijjo Hiibner, Vei-:. hek. Sfhm. p. 132 (1822) (partim ; type : japix). 



Pholux id., /.('. p. 134 (1822) (partim ; type : vniiitiir). 



Dtilejjiiilii, Burmeister, (iwn Laspeyres, 1809), Sjihiiuj. Bnis. p. 67 (1856). 



Piidii/IUi Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. .]/. viii. p. 189 (1856) (type : ficus). 



Chaerncanipa, Meiii^trie's (wm Duponchtl, 1835), Etium. Corp. Aiiiiii. Mus. Pelr. ii. p. 133 (1857). 



S ? . Eye large, not lashed. Antenna setiform, without the trace of a club, 

 hook long, slender ; end-segment long, compressed, conical or filiform, except at 

 base, penultimate segment longer than vertically broad. Palpus different in the 

 four species, smooth-scaled. Abdomen with triangular tail in S , simply pointed in 

 ? ; spines very heavy, in one row, the long ones alternating with small ones, or 

 the small ones absent, in which case the long ones stand separated ; first sternite 

 (second segment) with very few or with many spines. Hinder edge of midcoxa 

 cariniform, faintly angulate. Comb of midtarsus present. Distal margin of 

 forewing entire, ajiex pointed ; cross-veins of iiindwiiig oblique, lower angle of cell 

 acuminate, li^ and M' rather close together. 



