( V06 ) 

 CO",'. Xylophanes hydrata spec. nuv. (I'l. VI. 1'. 2, ?j. 



(.') Tlierelrii spec. A, Bunuinghaiiseii, Irix .\ii. p. 1'29. n. 50 (1898) (Rio de Jan.). 



?. Body above and discal baud of Uindwiiig pale reddish ferruginous; 

 forewiiig washed with the same colour. Paljius, breast, stigmatal region of 

 abdomen and wings oehraeeons ochre, underside of abdomen buff. Midtibial spurs 

 of the same length. Last abdominal tergitcs with weak spines besides longer and 

 stronger ones ; spines uniseriate. Thorax without pale stripes ; abdomen with a 

 thin mesial line and at each side a broader but less distinct line somewhat deeper 

 reddish. Antenna with seriated ciliae ; scaling ferruginous in basal half, grey 

 in distal half. 



AVings, ahoce. Forcwing : a black stigma ; six lines in outer half, fonrth 



the most jiromiueut, sixth weak and broad, seventh accentuated by minute vein- 

 dots ; distal margin strongly convex, apex acute and produced. Hindwiiig : 



basal half brownish black (costal area excepted), the black colour extending to 

 apex of wing, where it meets a brownish black snbmarginal band, which does 

 not quite reach to anal angle, being much shaded with ferruginous behind. 



Wings behnv finely irrorated with cinnamon-rufous ; markings extremely 



faint. Forewing : brownish black from near base to beyond cell, except costal 



area ; no distinct marginal band, but there are traces of four lines, the most 

 proximal one 7 mm. from cud of R', barely vestigial, the second a little more 

 distinct between S(/ and R-, accentuated ujjou SC'' and R' by tiuy vein-dots, 



the third visible down to 11^ the fourth quite indistinct. Hindwing : a slightly 



darker distal border, a vestigial line touching cell, followed by an equally weak 

 second line, aud then by a series of tiny vein-dots ; cross-veius strongly obliipie, 

 D' little more than half the length of D^ 



Length of forewing : 38 mm. 



Ilab. Brazil. 



A ? iu the Oxford Museum. 



Another ? in the Vienna Museum labelled: " Heyue, India? Is72," aud 

 bearing a second label with the name in pencil : " hydrata Plotz i. 1." The species 

 is easily distinguished by the absence of pale stripes from head and thorax, the 

 shape and pattern of the forewing, etc. The Vienua specimen is partly discoloured, 

 aud redder than the type figured. 



tliiS. Xylophanes robinsoni. 



Chtieiriraiiij/a fiilvo, Herrich-Scb. (iimi Walker, 1«6(;), Curirsj,. HI. p. 148 (ixii.'i) ; id., /.i'. p. 58 



(18fio) (Cuba). 

 Chaeruciiiiqiii lahinsuiii C.rotu, /';■.«•. !■:„/. S,„: P/ul,,,/. \. p. ."j4. t. I. f. 2 (IHi'.o) (Culja) : id. & Uob., 



ibid. V. p. 155. n. 44 (iw;5) ; Butl., Tnni.t. Ziiol. .S',»'. Lmal. i.\. p. 5(i:i. ii. 52 (l«7V) ; Gundl., 



Contr. Kill. C'libiniii p. I'.B (18K1). 

 Clioerocaiupii riihimniii Grote, Lr. vi. p. iiiW (181)7) ; id., Tniif<. .\mei: Kill. Kvr. iii. p. 1S4 (I.'*?!); 



Boisd., .S>r. Gill. Lip. UH. \. p. 2011. d. 5'J (1875). 

 Clioeroramiiii cvmiliis Schaufus.s, Niiiiti. Olios, p. 17 (1870) (Cuba). 

 Chiirriiiiiiiijia ciirnilii, Butler, Tniii/:. yCmil. Soc. f.unil. ix. p. 557. n. 17 (1877). 

 Tlinitia riibiuaiiiii, Kirby, Cut Leji. Hit. i. p. (lul!. n. 711 (1892) ( = vm-ralns). 



cJ ? . Sjmrs of midtibia rather short, equal in length ; long proximal spur 

 of hindtibia reaching base of distal sj)nrs. Blesotlioracic tegnla with a buffisli 

 middle line ; sides of abdomen jialc dorso-laterally, with some white scales, dorsal 

 surface brown, sharjdy defined, narrowing behind, with an indistinct, thin, deeper 



