( 70.5 ) 



(^. Scaling- of antoiiuti brown, creamy before hook. Wings and body yellowish 

 olive-green above, oliviiceous acbre-yellow beneath, nnderside of abdomen whitish 

 grey. Thorax unicolorons ; abdomen with thin greenish olive mesial line. Fore- 

 wing : stigma black, discal lines straight, obliqne, lines 1 to 3 feebly marked, 4 mnch 

 heavier, 5 from tip, not distinct except in front, scarcely traceable ; outer margin 

 strongly concave below apex, then convex. Basal half of hindwing black. On 

 underside there is a gi-eyish black triangular patch behind cell, entering cell a little, 

 a discal line corresponding to line 4 of npperside accentuated by a dot at costa, the 



apical line indistinct. Hindwing with two discal lines, the first touching cell 



indistinct, the second a continuation of the line of forewing, not so strong. 



(?. Tenth tergite truncate, distinctly sinuate ; sternite narrow, tapering to a 

 point, distally narrower than tergite. Process of barpe rather stout, extreme end 

 curved upwards, upper edge irregularly notched. Penis-sheath (PI. LVII. f 1.5): 

 a right-side process, dentate, directed jiroxiinad, a long row of teeth on the left side, 

 the incrassate dorso-apical margin rounded. 



Early stages not known. 



Hah. Neotropical Region : Paraguay to Venezuela and Surinam. 



In the Tring Museum 1 i from Aroa, Venezuela. 



In the Paris Museum 1 cJ, 1 ? from Brazil. 



In coll. Druce from Paraguay {tijpc of elani) ; in coll. Staudinger from 

 Surinam [ff/pc of elicius). 



001. Xylophanes isaon (PI. VI. f 11, i). 



*Cliinivfriiiij}ii (.«(«« Boisduval, Sjiec. Gen. Lep. llii. i. p. 'rrl. n. iVi (\^l[t) (Brazil ;— coll. Charles 



Oberthilr). 

 Therelra isaon, Kirby, Cat. Lrj,. lid. i. p. 657. n. 86 (1h;i2) ; Schaus, Enl. News i.\. p. 135 (1898) 



(= olivareo). 

 *neretni ollmrea Rothschild, Nov. Zcmi,. i. p. 77 (189-t) (Sao Paulo ;— Mus. Tring). 



J ? . Antenna of ¥ with rows of prolonged ciliae. Spurs of midtibia equal iu 

 length. Mesothoracic tegula with a tawny line iu middle ; a grey mesial line on 

 thorax, widening behind, continued on the abdomen by two widely sejjarated and not 

 vi'ry disliiict bands, bordered dorsally each by a series of dots, which an^ ofi.eii 

 connected by an iudistinct line ; a distinci brown mesial line on abdomen. Uf the 

 lines on the forewing the first and second are mint- or less merged together to a 

 heavy band, line H thin and scjiarated from '..' and 4 by pale interspaces ; line 4 very 

 heavy, reaching the tiji of the wing togetlier with ."). Pale band of hindwing with 

 a faint rcddisli tint, not sharply defined. The obviously diverging gw.y lines of the 

 npperside of the body are a very distinctive character. 



(J. Tenth alxlominal tergite truncate-sinuate; the sternite very slemlrr, being 

 narrowei' than the tergite, olitu>cly [lointed. Process of Inirpe very slender, curved 

 Upwards, subcylindrical, apex compressed and more or less dentate. Dorsal edge of 

 peoiK-Hheatb incrassate, forming an irregular horseshoe, of which tiic lell arm is 

 the longer : each arm ending in a dentate ridge or lobe (I'l, lA'II. f. 'JH). 



Early stages not known. 



//a/y. Neotro[iical Kegi(ni : lirazil. 



in the Tring Museum a dd, ¥V from: Sao Paulo; Leopuldina, Kspirito 

 Sauto. 



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