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Schm. i. 556 (1869) (fig. mala) ; Grote, Trans. Amfr. Eiit. Soc. in. p. 185 (1871) ; Butl., Tram. 



Znul. Sue. Lund. ix. p. 579. n. 5 (1H77) (Haiti ; Honduras ; Rio de Jan.) ; Burm., Descr. Rr/t. 



Argent, v. p. 340. n. 2 (1878) (Buenos Ayrcs ; N. Friburgn ; larva on Ficim) ; Druce, in li'ml. 



Ci-ntr. Anwr., Lep. Het. i. p. 16. n. 4 (1881) (Honduras; Nicaragua; Cliiriqui) ; Kirby, C'u<. 



Lqi. Hel. i. p. 678. n. 6 (1K92) ; Schaus, Ent. News vi. p. 141 (1895) (= hieonxjiiewi.) ; Druce, 



/.(■. Siippl. p. 309 (1896) (Mexico; Belize; Guatemala); Btinningb., /r« xii. p. 119. n. 29 



(1899) (Rio de Jan. ; rare). 

 *Piiel>i/liii imonspiewi Walker, L/.it Lep. his. B. M. viii. p. 190. n. 3 (1856) (Jamaica ; — Mus. 



Oxford) ; Clem., Jmirn. Ac. N. Se. Philod. iv. p. 159. n. 49 (1859) ; Morris, Oil. Lep. X. Am. 



p. 19 (1860) ; Clem., in Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am. p. 183. n. 4 (1862); Grote & Rob., I.e. v. 



p. 159. n. 62 (1865) (Jamaica) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lip. BH. i. p. 138. n. 5 (1875) ; Butl., /.<-. 



p. 579. n. 6 (1877) (Jamaica) ; Kirby, l.c. n. 7 (1892). 

 Chaeroeanipa versnla Clemen.^!, .Iiiurn. Ac. Nat. Sc/. PliilaJ. iv. p. 152. n. 38 (1859) (Mexico) ; Morris, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 20 (1860) ; Clem., in Morris, Si/n. Lep. N. Am. p. 174. n. 7 (1862) ; Druce, 



in Biol. Centr. Amer., I^ep. Het. i. p. 11. n. 14 (1881) (" not seen "). 

 Piichi/liii Iristis Menetrit'S, Eniim. Corji. Anim. .!/«». Pelrup. ii. Lep. p. 91. n. 1510 (1857) (Brazil, 



nam indexcr. !) ; Grote & Rob., Trans. Amer. Eiil. Soc. iii. p. 75 (1871) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. 



Bel. i. p. 138. n. 4. (1875) (Brazil ; Cuba) : Moschl., Verh. Zm,I. Bnl. Gex. Wien xxvi. p. .^47 



(1876) (Surinam). 

 Phueliijliii (\) resumens, Gundlach, Contr. Ent. Cuhnmi p. 202 (1882). 

 Theretra rersula, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 657. n. 87 (1892). 



6 ? . Clemens's description of rei:iitt(i applies to this insect ; a comparison of 

 the characters he mentions with a specimen of raitmens will convince every one 

 of the correctness of our identification. The species varies a good deal individnally, 

 Imt apparentl}' not sfeographicallj-. The markings of the forewing are sometimes 

 almost obliterated. Tlie ? is on the whole more olivaceous than tlie S, and has 

 the jiale postdiscal band of the hindwing often nearly concolorons with the basal 

 area, while it is much more clayish in the S. The ferriigi nous-tawny colour of 

 the underside of the forewing at the brown distal marginal band appears often on 

 the npperside. All the alidominal tergites have a black basal belt; the belts of the 

 pro.ximal segments are visible, at least laterally, also in specimens with the segments 

 well telescoped into one another ; posterior tergites with single, well separated, long 

 and strong spines ; spines of proximal tergites much shorter and weaker, and much 

 more numerous, standing close together ; spines of proximal sternites contiguous, of 

 posterior ones !-e])arate, stronger cliitinised sjiines generally alternating with weaker 

 ones. Palpus closely apjiressed to head, rounded in lateral and dorsal views, not 

 projecting. Penultimate segment of antenna longer than vertically broad. Hinder 

 edge of merum of mid- and hindcoxa carinate, very faintly angulate. External 

 Bpnr of niidtibia only one-fourtii shorter than internal one. Hindwing similar in 

 pattern to tiiat of P.Jicus. 



3. Scent-organ of forecoxa strongly developed. Scales at ujiper and lower 

 edges of the hindtibia and of the first hindtarsal segment prolonged ; hindtarsus 

 with some sjiines between the four regular rows, first segment a little less than 

 half the length of the tibia. Tenth tergite (PI. XLII. f. 6, ventral view; f. 7, 

 lateral viewj with two long processes, which are broadest at end, curved downward 

 and sonievvliat twisted, the flat side being nearly vertical ; the two [irocesses of the 

 sternitc as long as the tergite, the left a little shorter than the right, both 

 somewhat compressed and slightly S-shai)ed, apex not very acute ; anal cone 

 projecting between the lobes of the segment in lateral view (PI. XLII. f 0). 

 C'lagper sole-shaped, broader and shorter than in Erinnyi.i, with a patch of stitt' 

 bristles on tiie inner surface in the middle of the dorsal margin (PI. XLV. f ~'S) ; 

 a donbii' basal tubercht (/), smooth, the lower one cariiiate ; harpe produced 

 veiilrally into a slnmgly hooked, shoi't process, whicli is lilainly visible IVoiu the 



