( 385 ) 



tubercle, horn long; in young stages, reduced to a short cone in hiter stages. — Food- 

 plants : Jii.sxii'iia, Oiiiii/rdceiif. 



Pnpa in a loose, white, mnslin-like cocoou, attached to the food-plant. 



Hah. Mexico to Bolivia and Sonthern Brazil. 



In the Tring Musenm 9 c?(?, 2 ? ? from : Rio Dagua, Colombia (Rosenberg) ; 

 San Augnstin, Mapiri R., Bolivia, 3500 ft., ix. '05 (Stuart) ; Rio Deraerara ; St. 

 Catharina ; 1 c? ex coll. Lennep. 



In the Bern Museum from Para (Dr. Goeldi), at the electric light, iii. 



314. Madoryx bubastus. 



Sphinj- hiihadiis Cramer, Pap. E.i:ot. ii. p. 84. t. 149. f. i: (1777) (" Coromandel " loc. err.) ; Goeze, 

 Ent. Beytr. iii. 2. p. 221. n. 62 (1780). 



cJ ? . Much more brown than oiclii.i. Upper discal silvery spot of forewing 

 small, rounded or ovate; second irregularly triangular; at least three times the 

 size of the first, its upper inner edge pointing costad : from near the end of SC'' 

 two pale lines run backwards, forming an acute angle, the outer one ending at tip 

 of M', the proximal one at inner margin in a patch, in which are situated two brown 

 spots ; it nearly touches in middle a pale discal line which is curved costad in front. 

 Distal margin of forewing less dentate in ? than in S. 



S ■ Sexual armature as in oiclux, but process of harpe narrower, more conical; 

 penis-sheath (PI. LIU. f. 16) curved at end, dentate at the edge, with some fine 

 bristles at the tip, upjier left angle somewhat produced and acute in butluri. 



Hah. South and Central America, from British Honduras to Santa Catharina. 



There are in the Tring Museum a $ and a ? of a Mddori/x which differ from 

 all the specituens of hidm.Htus we have seen. They are, unfortunately, without 

 locality. The i lias only one very small, yellowish, discal dot, and the ? has this 

 dot only very feebly indicated liy some paler scales, [n the ? the subbasal costal 

 dot is almost absent, and the disc is much shaded with scales of a peculiar greenish 

 blue tint, similar to tliat shown in Cramer's figure ; the same tint reappears on the 

 nnderside in the middle of the costal margin, and also on the disc of the right 

 hindwing. The white dots on the underside of the abdomen are minute in the ? . 

 The ]ienis-sheath (PI. LIII. f. 17) differs slightly from that of buhastas. The 

 distal margin of the forewing is not distinctly dentate in either of the two 

 individuals. These two specimens belong perhaps to a third local race. 



a. M. bubastus bubastus. 



Merian, .Metam. Ins. Surin. t. .'59 (170.')) (imago, pupa ; ? nun larva). 

 Sphinx huhastUH Cramer, l.r. 



Sjihiia didijina, Gmelin, %x(. Nat. i. 5. p. 2381. ii. 79 (1790) (partim). 

 Amplt/iiterim hiibtiKlim, HUbner, Vers. bek. Srhni. p. 1.S3. n. 1431 (1822). 

 AmplypliniH Inipiishts (1), id., I.e. Iiiilr.r p. 24 (182-). 



Nphinx /KiriT, Burraeister (iioii Fabricius, 1770), Ahh, Xnt. Gen. Halle p. i)3 (1854). 

 (luUhinnui. liiibaKliiK, Walker, List D'p. Itm. B. M. viii. p. 112. D. 6 (18D6). 

 Zonilia! hiihaxluH, Boisduval, S/icr. (Irn. Lip. IIH. i. p. 144. n. 8 (XHTh). 

 *.\tadori/x lijwiiH id., 1.,-. p. 1.51. u. 2. t. 4. f. 4 {\?,lb) (Cayenne ;— coll. Charles Oberthiir). 

 .Mailorijx, hiibiiKlux, Miiachler, ]'i'rli. Zmil. Ilol. (Irs. Wlni xxvi. p. 3^ (187l!) (Surinam ; description). 

 I'aiiacra'f bubastus, Butler, Trans. Zuul. Sue. Lund. ix. p. 551. n. 1.5 (1877) (" Coromandel "). 

 Uemeriiplancs lipinis, id., l.r. p. G30 (1877) ; Kirby, Oil. Lrp. llrt. i. p. 647. n. 4 (1892) (Cayenne). 

 Madoryj- nirlus, Burmeister, Drsrr. Hep. .\r(jpnl. v. .ttlas p. 33 (1879). 



Ilemeritplancs bubastus, Kirby, l.r. n. 7 (1892) (Surinam) ; Biinningh., Iris xii. p. 125. sub n. 4G 

 (1899) (Rio Grande do Sul). 



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