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deepened to an obscure marginal blackish band. The inner angle 

 curved above with niveous scales. 



Honduras and Brazil. 



CLEMENS. 



3. P. resumens Walker, p. 190. 



Fawn color, paler beneath. Abdomen with a black band on 

 each of the three basal segments ; the four following segments 

 with two black spots on each. Fore wings with several undu- 

 lating transverse brown lines, with a brown discal dot, and with 

 three brown dots near the interior angle ; exterior border cinereous. 

 Hind wings paler, with a black discal stripe, which is connected 

 at the tip of the wings with a black marginal stripe. Length of 

 the body 17 18 lines; of the wings 40 42 lines. 



Var. /3. Cinereous brown. Hind wings dull pale fawn color, 

 greenish toward the base. 



S. America ; Honduras ; West Indies. 



, CLEMENS. 



4. P. inconspicua Walker, p. 190. 



Fawn-color, testaceous beneath. Abdomen with two rows of 

 black dots, and toward the base with two interrupted black bands. 

 Fore wiags with three undulating oblique blackish lines, a little 

 darker between the third line and the exterior border. Hind 

 wings a little paler than the fore wings, with two dark brown 

 stripes, the one discal, the other marginal ; a brown undulating 

 line between them. ' Length of the body 21 lines ; of the wings 

 48 lines. 



Jamaica. 



CLEMENS. 



MACROSILA WALKER. 



. Size large, or very large, body thick and long. The head is 

 large, free and advanced ; the front very broad and long, taper- 

 ing but little to the tips of the palpi ; the eyes very large and 

 salient; the antennae clavato-prismatic, with a short hook and seta; 

 the palpi very thick and ascending, and pressed against the front ; 

 the tongue twice or nearly twice the length of the body, or about 

 one-third longer. The thorax is large and thick, somewhat rounded 



