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angle, where the interior border forms an inward curve ; second 

 inferior vein (superior) nearly twice further from the third (poste- 

 rior) than from the first (disco-central)-, third more than twice 

 further from the fourth than from the second. Hind wings some- 

 what emarginate along the exterior border. Walker. . 



1. A. strigilis Linn. Mant. I, 558. 



Pale fawn color, luteous beneath. Head with a furcate ferrugi- 

 nous brown spot between the antennae and thorax, with two large 

 lateral patches of the same hue. Antennas white. Abdomen with 

 a brown dorsal line and oblique brown lateral streaks, edged with 

 testaceous. Anterior wings fawn color, with separated, oblique 

 ferruginous streaks on the costa, four abbreviated, wavy blackish- 

 brown lines crossing the middle of the nervules, a few spots on the 

 inner margin, and a marginal black line (bordered above in Cra- 

 mer's figure with blue). Posterior wings luteous or pale orange, 

 with three angulated brownish lines and brownish terminal margin. 



South America; West Indies. 



CLEMENS. 



2. A. ganascus Stoll, Cramer, V, 157, pi. 35, f. 3. 



Fawn color; head with a band between the antennae, the tegulae 

 and a band at the base of the abdomen dark greenish-brown. The 

 antennae white. Abdomen fawn-color, with brown or ferruginous 

 dorsal spots. Anterior wings brown, with a glaucous hue;' a rect- 

 angular spot on the base of the inner margin dark greenish-brown, 

 edged with testaceous; a small round one at the base, two in the 

 disk, another near the tip on costa, one in medio-posterior inter- 

 space and a small one above the interior angle of the same hue 

 and edged with greenish. Posterior roseate, with three angulated 

 blackish-brown bands sometimes dilated and somewhat connected. 



South America; Mexico; West Indies. 



CLEMENS. 



PHILAMPELUS HARRIS. 



The body is large and thick. The head rather large, free and 

 prominent, with the front long, smooth, conical and rather broad ; 

 the eyes large or moderate; the palpi ascending and pressed 

 closely to the front; the tongue as long as the body; the antennas 



