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spines of first ]irotarsal segmeut numerous only at base, reduced distally to one 

 row. The white lateral border of the mesothoracical tegula not marked on 

 occiput, indistinct anteriorly on pronotum, reappearing as a fine line in front of 



the antenna. Forewing with a single row of dots distally on disc ; a dark 



transverse clond indicating another line about 3 mm. from cell at R^, two more 

 clouds occasionally in basal half Abdomen without traces of lines, the distinct 

 blackish basi-lateral patch of rhodocera also absent from porcus. 



S. Tenth abdominal tergite long and slender, ape.x gradually narrowed, 

 obtusely pointed ; sternite also long, feebly spatulate, apex obtusely rounded. 

 Dorsal edge of penis-sheath projecting in the shape of a halfmoon, both horns 

 free, jiointing proximad, the right one narrow, the left one lm>adcr, dentate. 



Early stages not known : larva feeding un lluiuflia jjiitei(» according to 

 Gundlach, I.e. 



Hah. Neotropical Region. 



Two subspecies : 



a. X. porcus porots. 

 Oreiis porcus Hiibner, l.r. 

 Da nijisu porcus, Walker, I.e. 

 Chuerticamjxi porcii.i, Herrich-Sch., On-icap. HI. p. &8 (1805) (Cub.a) ; Grote, Pivc. Eiil. Bnc. riiUml. 



V. p. 53 (1805) (Cuba) ; id. & Rob., ihid. v. p. 1.54. n- 38 (1865) ; Butl., Trans. Ziml. Soc. Loud 



ix. p. 561. n. 3'.l (1877) ; Gundl., Contr. Enl. Ciibun,t p. 105 (1881). 

 Chuerocanqi/i pnreus Grote, I.e. vi. p. 328 (1807) : id., Trans. Aiiicr. Ent. Siu-. iii. p. 154. n. 38 (1871) ; 



Boisd., Spec. Geu. Up. Hit. i. p. 278. n. 75 (1875). 



cJ?. Stigma of forewing distinct. An obvious olivaceous iloud beyond apex 

 of eell. Processes of penis-sheath slender, the left one dentate jn'oximally, 

 comb-like. 



Hab. Cuba. 



In the Tring Museum 1 6. 



Ii. X. porcu.f contiiieHtulis subsp. nov. 



Choerociimpa porcus, Druce, in Biol. Ccnlr. Amer., Lep. Bet. i. p. 9. n. 4 (1881) (Chiriqui ; Ecuador) ; 



id., l.c. Suppl. p. ,304 (18y6) (Mexico). 

 ThevHru porcus, Bonninghausen, Iris -xii. p. 129. u. 58 (1899) (Rio de Jau.). 



cJ?. Stigma smaller, olive-green cloud outside cell less obvious, distal dots 

 a little more pronounced ; otherwise the same in colour as the insular form. 



S. Armature of penis-sheath obviously difiTerent from that of the insular 

 porcus : the left process especially broader, more or less rounded, tlie right process 

 shorter, stouter. 



Ilab. Continental South and (_!entral America, as far south as Sta. Catharina. 



Type from Colombia. 



In the Tring Museum 13 iS, 8 ? ? from: Sta. Catharina; l{io dc Janeiro; 

 Espirito Santo ; Minas Geraes, xi. (Kennedy) ; Aroa, Venezuela ; Kio Dagua, 

 Colombia, tijpe (Rosenberg); (Josta Rica; Orizaba and Jalapa, Mexico, ii. iii. iv. 

 (Schausj. 



63a. Xylophanes schausi (PI. IX. f. 13, %,ti/pe). 



*Danipsa schiusi Rothschild, Nov. ZooL. i. p. 84 (1894) (Petropolis ;— Mus. Tring). 

 *Tlieretra arpi Schaus, Eiil. News ix. p. 135 (1898) (Rio de Janeiro ; — coll. Schaus). 

 Theretra spec. B., Bunninghausen, Iris xii. p. 129. n. 00 (1899) (Rio de Janeiro). 



<J?. Antenna of ? jirismatically compressed, basal rows of ciliae ]iromiueut. 

 External spur of midtibia much shorter than internal. White lateral border of 



