PROTOPARCE. 



Genus PROTOPARCE. 



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Protoparce, Burmeister, Abh. nat. Gesell. Halle, iii, pt. 2, p. 63 (1855). 

 Hyloicus, Hubn. Verz. p. 138 (1816), gen. indescr. 



Type, P. rustica, Wlk., from Brazil. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi quadrately scaled at apex. Veins 6 and 7 of hind wing 

 arising from the angle of the cell ; the upper discocellular bent out 

 to the origin of vein 5. 



162. Protoparce convolvuli, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 798 j C. 8? S. 



no. 168. 



Protoparce orientalis, Butl. Tr. Z. S. ix, p. 609 ; C. 8f 8. no. 167 j 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 75 ; figs. 1, 1 a-e (larva and pupa). 



Fig. 60. Protoparce convolvuli, $ . \. 



Head, thorax, and a streak down the vertex of abdomen grey ; 

 abdomen with lateral transverse bands of pink and black to each 

 segment ; grey below. Fore wing grey, with black streaks below 

 veins 2 and 3 ; a highly dentate dark postinedial line met by an 

 irregular black streak from the apex. Some specimens are much 

 clouded with fuscous, which sometimes takes the form of a broad 

 medial band leaving two small pale spots in the end of the cell. 

 Hind wing grey ; antemedial, medial, and postmedial piceous bands, 

 the two former meeting at anal angle, the two latter lunulate. 



Larva green, the horn yellow ; a series of oblique lateral pink 

 and white stripes on the fourth to tenth somites ; stigmata ringed 

 with yellow and black. The European form has a black spot above 

 each lateral stripe, the absence of which is the only character 

 relied on for separating orientalis. 



