( 403 ) 



Forewing not denticulate, not obviou.sly 



convex in middle, dark area veiy sliarply 



defined except near hinder angle . . . c. 

 h. Dark area of forewing prolonged along 



antemcdian line to hinder margin . . 334. E. ocypcte. 

 Dark area of forewing not prolonged along 



antemedian line to hinder margin . . 333. E. liiqtibris. 

 c. Dark area of forewing gradual!}' narrowed 



<at antemedian line .... 337. E. catifer. 



Dark area of forewing truncate before SM-. 335. E. i/oryou. 



333. Epistor lugubris. 



Drury, Illiislr. Exut. Im. i. p. 61. t. 28. f. 2 (1770) (Antigoa). 



Sphinx lugubris Linne, Maul. Plant, p. .537' (1771) (Antigoa); Drury, I.e. Index ( 1 77.S) ; Miill., 



Xatim. Sajipl. p. P.Ol. n. 5a (1774) ; Fabr., Syst. Eiil. p. 537. n. 2 (177.';) ; Goeze, Ent. Be.ijti: 



iii. ■>. p. 202. n. 1 (1780) ; Fabr., Spec. his. ii. p 140. n. 4 (1781) ; id., .Muni. ln«. ii. p. 92. 



n. 4 (1787) ; Gmel., Si/st. Xaf. i. 5. p. 2372. n. 50 (1790) ; Fabr., Ent. Si/sl. iii. 1. p. 356. n. 5 



(17'J3). 

 Eni/a liir/ulins, Hiibner, Sainml. E.r. Srhm. f. 595. 596 (18-2-) ( W. Indies) ; Walker, Usl Lep. fn.s. 



B.M. viii. p. 113. r. 1 (1856) (partim); Clem.,/o«v. Ac. N. Sc. Phihid. iv. p. 139. n. 19 (1859); 



Morris, Cal. Lep. N. Am. p. 18 (1860); Clem., in Morris, Sipi. Lep. N. Am. p. 162. n. 1 (1862) ; 



Butl., Trans. Zool. Soc. I.,ond. ix. p. 540. n. 1 (1877) (Haiti ; Venezuela ; Mexico ; St. Thomas ; 



Honduras; Pantarem ; Rio); Dewitz, Millli. Mihirli. Ent. Vei: i, p. 91 (1877) (Porto Rico) ; 



Moschl.. Verli. Zm,l. Bot. Ges. Wku x.xxii. p. 333 (1882) (Surinam ; = liirl:i„sii» =/,•,/(■«»■). 

 Tlii/i-eiis Ini/iihris, Boisduval, Cons. Lep. Guatemala p. 69 (1870) (Georgia to Brazil ; Antilles). 

 Epixtor lar/iibri-s, id.. Sju'i: Gen. Lep. HH. i. p. 297. n. 1 (1875) (Virginia to Brazil ; Antilles). 

 Triplogun lugnhrU, Kirby, Cal. Ljep. Het. i. p. 644. n. 1 (1892). 



c? ? . Some specimens are of a rather pale burnt-amlier colour. Stigma of 

 forewing distinct in both sexes. The species was described from Antigoa. We 

 have not seen an individual from that island. In Drury's figure the wings are 

 broader than in Continental specimens. As the Jamaica specimens are all broad- 

 winged, we thought at first that the examples from all the West Indian Islands 

 except Haiti and (^Uiba belonged to one snbsjiecies, and those from the ( 'ontinent, 

 Haiti, and Cuba to another. Tiiis is not the case. The specimens from St. 

 Thomas, Gnadelonpe, St. Lucia, etc., which we have seen, are not like the Jamaica 

 ones, but resemble closely those from the (Continent, though there may be some 

 slight, more or less constant diftereiice discoverable when a longer series is compared. 

 In this case the Continental specimens would form the subspecies E. lugubris 

 J'egeui, and those from Antigoa and neighbouring islands E. lugubris lugubris. 



S. Tenth tergite (PI. XLIV. f. 11) with a long, straight, mesial process ; the 

 three ventral processes slender, close together ; sternite asymmetrically dilated at 

 cnil and twisted (PL XLIV. f. 10). Right and left claspers different: the left 

 one (PI. XLVII. f. 17) almost straight dorsally, ventral margin nearly straight to 

 middle, where it is angled and produced into a short tooth, apex narrowed to a long 

 trnncate process ; right <;lasper with the ventral margin not angnlate in middle, 

 without the ventral tooth, obli(pie from base to apical process. Penis-shcatli 

 (PI. LI 11. f. 32) ending in a long thin process. 



?. The brown discal area of the forewing generally extending along antemedian 

 line to M', its inner margin oblicpie, not very sharply defined, somewhat concave, 

 or Htraight, extending from stigma to end of II-, or to hinder angle. 



