( 495 ) 



Diipn rith, firoie. Bull. Biiffiihi Soc. N. S,: i. p. 21 (1K74) (N. Jersey; South. States); Thaxt., 

 Psi/rhc i. p. 29 (1874) (Newton, Mass., vi.) ; Grote, /..■. ii. p. 22U. n. 26 (IHVf)) ; id., /..-. iii. 

 p. 222. n. 28 (1877) (Mass. ; Penn. ; South. States) ; Kirby, Oil. Leji. Het. i. p. 6(JS. n. 1 (18',I2); 

 id., in Allen, Xal. Lihr., Mnth^ iv. p. 37. t. 10.3 (?.,;)., /.) (1807) (syn. partim). 



Diijii' fasciiitiix, Bonninghausen, Irix xii. p. 127. n. 51 (1899) (Rio de Jan. ; larva). 



J ? . Tibiae shorter scaled than in vitis. First segment of hindtarsus very 



little shorter than tibia. Forewing, aboee, with a single straight line behind 



base of ■M-, at right angles to hinder margin ; stigma appearing simple, triangnlar, 

 owing to the proximal jiart (within cell) being scarcely deeper in tint than the 



rest of the cell. Hiodwing without black discal line ; a broad black po.stdiscal 



band from C to M^, sharply defined, followed behind M- by a faint postdiscal and 

 a black snbmargiiial line; distal margin red, except from M- backwards ; abdominal 

 margin rather brighter red; interspace between black s(juare patch and brown 

 distal marginal band M- — SM- also red. Hindwing belnw with abdnmiiial area 

 more extended rosy red than in ei'tis. 



(J. Tenth tergite ])ointed. Clasper den.sely hairy inside; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; harpe (PI. XLVIII. f Ci) with two processes as in eacm and adam»i : 

 one pointed, curved, resembling the hook of other species, j)artly covered by 

 the second, which is short, obtuse, compressed, broad. Penis-sheath stout ; process 

 short, triangular (PL LIV. f 26). 



Larva very different in adult stage from that of vitis, being particoloured 

 with numerous black ringlets, and, on segments 4 to 11, with narrow oblique 

 white lateral bauds, extending over two segments. In the young caterpillar the 

 white side-bands are confined to one segment each, and the black transverse lines 

 are rudimentary. ^Food-i)lant : Jussieua. 



Pupa: cremaster rough; labrum somewhat projecting as a small tubercle; 

 head beneath a little more convex than dorsally. 



Ilah. Neotropical Region, extending southward to Patagonia, and northward 

 into the Nearctic Hegion, occasionally wandering to New England. 



In the Triug Museum 1 pujia, (ill-odd specimens IVom : South ('arolina to 

 Buenos Ayres and St. Catharina ; Cuba ; Haiti ; Jamaica ; not from the Andes 

 of Ecuador, Peru, and 15(ilivia, where it doubtless occurs. 



42IJ. Pholus phorbas. 



Sphbix iihiirliaH Cramer, I'tiij. ICmt. i. p. 81;. t. 5.1. f. n (1775) (Ind. occ. ? Ind. or.?) ; Goeze, Enl. 



liei/lr. iii. 2. p. 220. n. 59 (1780) ; Sioll, in Cram., I.e. iv. p. 65 (1780) (Suiinam) ; Fabr., Spec. 



Im. ii. p. 145. n. 25 (1781) ; id., Miuil. /«.v. ii. p.' 95. n. 28 (1787) ; Gmel., SiiM. Nat. i. 5. 



p. 2.379. n. 70 (1790) ; Fabr., /vV. .S><. iii. 1. p. .3(;5. n. .30 (1793) ; Lep. & Serv., km. Meth. x. 



p. 466. t. 1)6. f. 4 (1825). 

 HphiiLr pdiuliijii Stoll, in Cram., I.r. iv. p. 65. t. 321. f. A (1780) (Surinam). 

 Sphinj- /Jiirrhfis {!), Fabriciua, I.e. liulex p. 157 (1796). 

 ArijeuH jMiiiliiiii, Hubner, Virz. bc'c. Schiit. p. 134. u. 1443(1822). 

 l'hilii„ipehiHp/,„rl,a«, Walker, /Jul. Li'p. !ni. Ii. M. viii. p. 179. n, 10 (1856) ; Boisd., Spn-. (Uii. Up. 



Uit. i. p. 193. n. 2 (1875) ; Butl., Tnim. Zm,} . ,S'w. /,«;»/. ix. p. 577. n. 17 (1877). 

 Arijem (I) phorhnx, Kirby, Cut. Lep. Ihi i. p. 670. u. 2 (1892) (Surinam) 



c? ? . Hrown stripe of thorax and abdomen broad, about half the width of the 

 trons, not widened to large ])atclu;s (ni fifth and sixtli abdominal segments. 

 I'ndciaidit of wings and body nearly whcjJIy yellow. Rlidtibia white above from 

 base to ai)ex. U- of hindwing lielow centre r)f ci'll, D' obviously .shorter than D' as 

 a rule. 



!>,. Tenth tergite ending in a long sharp point. Clasper narrowed from middle 



