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Buffalo Soc. iV. Sl: i. p. 2-2 (1874) (Texas) ; id., /..-. ii. p. 22G. n. 32 (1875) (Texas) ; id., /.,;. 



iii. p. 222. n. 34 (1877) (Texas). 

 Paehi/lin ficua var. vnifziielenxix Schaufuss, Ntiiiq. Otinn. i. p. lO (1870) (Venezuela). 

 IWhyUa nmhitifnma Butler, Ir. ix. p. 578. n. 2 (1877) (Haiti ; Brazil) ; Kirby, /.-■. n. 2 (18112). 

 Piiflii/Uii firitx x., Bonninghausen, Jrix xii. p. 118. n. 20 ( 18!HI) (Rio de Jan.). 

 Parhijliit firtia n., id., I.e. n. 27 (18119) (larva noticed). 

 PiiclniUd finis B. Tar. nteirima id., I.e. p. 110. sub n. 27 (18110) (Rio de Jan.). 



cJ?. Eye large. Eud-segment of antenna long, filiform distally, about as 

 long as the four previous segments together. Palpus prominent, broad at end, less 

 triangular than in .v/ces, but more projecting than in res'ime/is and darceta. Spines 

 of abdomen long and strong, and separate on tergites and stevnites ; there are 

 no, or few, small weak spines. First segment of hindtarsns of ? as long as 2 to 5 

 together, shorter in c? ; long terminal hindtibial spur as long as half the first 

 tarsal segment, but somewhat variable. The S generally less olive than the ? ; 

 markings of forewing variable in distinctness. The brown side-jiatches of the 

 abdomen often vestigial. West Indian individuals on the whole less variegated 

 than Continental ones. 



cJ. Scent-organ of fore-coxa not strongly devcdoped. Tenth tergite of abdomen 

 (PI. XLII. f. 1, dorsal view) divided into two long, slender, pointed, densely hairy 

 processes, which are almost parallel, curving a little ventrad and laterad at end ; 

 sternite vestigial, witlioiit processes. CUasper (PI. XLVI. f 2) broadly sole-shajied ; 

 a patch of short stiff hairs near the base on inner surface ; harpe short, horizontal, 

 ending in a very obtuse process, which is beset at upper edge with spines pointing 

 upward and basad. Penis-sheath (PI. LIII. f. 12) with a few teeth at the right side. 

 ?. p]ighth tergite sinuate, feebly chitinised distally, strongly chitinised 

 proximally and at the sides. Vaginal plate large, not sharply defined distally, its 

 apical edge not being incrassate or elevate ; orifice in a large impression, the walls 

 of winch are somewhat raised ; postvaginal part of impression scaled ; no further 

 armature ; proximal part membranaceous, folded (PI. XL. f. 15). Seventh 

 sternite elongate-trajjeziform, abont as long as proximally broad ; apex truncate, 

 sharply defined, apical edge about )i mm. long, angles rounded. 



Larva green, with a yellow dorso-lateral line from the head to the tip of the 

 short horn, from this line run on each segment, excei)t first, backwards to hinder 

 margin a yellow oblique band (Burmeister, I.e.). Changing before pupation into 

 orange above, blnish grey below. — Food-j)lant : Ficus. 



Hah. Florida, Texas, West Lidies, southward to Bnenos Ayres. 

 A common species. 



Li the Tring Musenm 00 odd sjiecimens from: Jamaica; Cuba; Bahamas; 

 Trinidad ; various places of Central and South America, southward to Bolivia, 

 Argentina, and Southern Brazil. 



:i03. Pachylia syces. 



Merian, Miiam. Ins. fiiirin. t. 33 fig. sup. sinistra (1705) (larva and pupa this species orfii'ii«). 

 Sphinx ficus, Stoll (««H Linnt', 1758), in Cram., Pap. E:r. iv. p. 21G. t. 394. f. D (1782) (Surinam). 

 Eiiyo njces HUbner. Vrr~. hek. Sclim. p. 132. n. 1424 (1822). 

 PachyVm. firus, Walker, List Lip. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 189. n. 1 (185()) (partim) ; Boisd., 0>ns. Lqi. 



Gnulemala p. 72 (1870) (partim) ; id., aprc. Gen. Ll'p. Hit. i. p. 13l'i. n. (1875) (partim). 

 OtaerocamjMi fi^-us, 1ili'n<^-tn63, Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Petr. ii. p. 1.33. n. 1511. & Suppl. p. 01. 



a. 1511 (1857) (Haiti). 

 Pachylia sycei, Butler, Trans. Zuol. Soc. Lund. ix. p. 578. n. 4 (1877) (Brazil ; Jamaica ; Haiti ; 



= inornata) ; Kirby, Cut. Lep. Ilet. i. p. G78. n. 5 (1802) (Brazil ; Antilles). 

 Sphinx fins (!), Gundlach, Conlr. Eiit. Ciihana, p. 201 (1881) (aub synon.). 



