( 7(14 ) 



generally iu a pale stripe, the ocelli filled in with Llack or red according to figures. 

 A specimeu iu the Triug Museum frotu Jamaica has the horn vestigial. — Food- 

 j)lants : Spermacocc, ManetUa. 



Pupa almost grey ; stigmata in black spots. 



Hab. Canada to Argentina, including the West Indies (not on the Bahamas ?) ; 

 a common species. 



Iu the Tring Museum 1 larva (Jamaica), 15U-odd specimens from : Virginia ; 

 N. Carolina; Florida; Cuba: Jamaica; Dominica; Tobago: various places in 

 Central and South America. 



058. Xylophanes suana. 



*Clioi:ruaimjia xiiam Druce, Ann. May. N. 11. (6). iv. p. 77 (188'.l) (Bahamas;— coll. Druce). 



Durapxa siiana, Kirby, Cut. Lej>. Ilel. i. p. 671. n. 3 (18'.12). 



Chneronimim coami (!), Hampson, Ann. Mag. N. II. (7). vii. p. 251 (1901) (Nassau ; Andros). 



(? ? . Body and upperside of forewing more uniform in colour than in tersa, 

 ash-colour ; abdomen not yellowish and tawny at the sides or below, spines of 

 termites much weaker. Forewing less elongate ; spots of hindwing reduced in 

 size and number. Sexual armature the same as in tersa. One of our SS and 

 another in the British Museum have the upperside of the thorax chestnut, the sides 

 of the abdomen, the under surface of the body, and part of the wings reddish 

 cinnamon-rufous, and the upperside of the forewing and the spots of the hindwing 

 washed with the same colour. 



Early stages not known. 



Ildb. Bahamas. 



In the Tring Museum 2 c?<?, 1 ? fi'om Nassau, Bahamas (Sir G. Carter). 



This is perhaps only a local race of fer.sa. Ordinary term occurs on Cuba, 

 Florida, etc., and is apparently a wanderer in the Nearctic Region. 



659. Xylophanes turbata. 



Chocrommpa lurUda Edwards, Enl. Amn: iii. p. s;i (1H.S7) (Vera Cruz) ; Bcutenm., liidl. Amfi: 

 Mils. N. II. iv. p. 170 (1H'J2) (three speoim. ex coll. Hy. Edwards) ; Druce, in /J/u?. Ceiitr. 

 Amci:, Lep. Ilet. Suppl. p. 304. n. 3 (a), t. 00. f. 6 (1«'J0) (Vera Cruz ; Belize, Brit. Honduras). 



Tlurdra tubahi, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Met. i. p. 656. n. 78 (18'.I2). 



?. External spnr of midtibia shorter than internal. Head and thorax with a 

 dark olive shade along the white lateral strijie. Pattern of forewing distinctive : 

 discal lines 1 and 2 forming together a prominent band which reaches to the tip of 

 the wing ; lines 3 to T thin, 4 being barely more prominent than 3 and 0. 



S and early stages not known to us. 



Hab. Central America : Mexico ; British Honduras. 



In the Tring Museum 1 ? , ex coll. Hy. Edwards, received from the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



60U. Xylophanes elai-a. 



*ChMrmvmpii <hni Druce, Ent. .Uu. Mug. xiv. p. 2411 (1878) (Paraguay ;— cull. Druce). 



*ai,i,'roaunj«i flkiiis Mijschler, I'erli. Z. B. Ge«. Wiai xxxii. p. 332. t. 18. f. 47 ( ? ) (1882) (Suri- 

 nam ;— coll. Staudinger). 



Tlie-niraeliciiis, Kirby, Cut. Lrp. Ilet. i. p. 057. n. '.t3 (I8'.I2). 



7Ja)-a»8af!far«, id., ;.c. p. 071. n. 7(1892). 



*rhcrft,-a penurklU Rothschild, Nov. Zck.i,. i. p. 77. t. 5. f. 12 ( J ) (1894) (Aroa, Venezuela ;-Mu8. 

 Tring). 



