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with green ; the costal edge reddish ; an indistinct greenish subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; oblique antemedial, medial, and 

 postmedial reddish lines, the last two angled inwards to costa and 

 the 1st and 3rd with pale bands on their inner edge ; claviform, 

 orbicular, and reniform indistinctly outlined with greenish, the two 

 former round, the last large ; a very indistinct pale waved sub- 

 terminal line ; cilia red at tips towards apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points, often obsolete. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the 

 veins towards termen and a diffused terminal baud narrowing 

 to apex and tornus red. Underside of fore wing with more or less 

 prominent reddish discoidal spot and postmedial band. 



Ab. 1. subjlexa. Hind wing without terminal band. 



Ab. 2. rliexia. The red tones replaced by fuscous, the lines of 

 fore wing dark and more diffused, and the pale bands more distinct. 



Ab. 3. spectanda — molocMtina. Fore wing with whitish band 

 on inner edge of medial line also ; the postmedial band arising 

 almost from apex. 



Ab. 4. distincta. More uniform brownish ochreous. 



Hab. Canada ; IJ.S. A., Middle, Central, and Southern States, 1 c? , 

 .4 2 , Alabama, 1 J , Kansas, Colorado, California ; Mexico, 

 Cordova (Kumeli, Tnijilh), 2 $ , Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 1 2 ■> 

 Coatepec {BrooJcs), 1 6, Jaiapa (Trujilh), 1 c? , 1 2; Guatemala 

 {Champion, Rodriguez), 3 c? , 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Haiti 

 (Tiveedie), 1 d" , 1 $ , type viridescens ; St. Croix ; St. Lucia, 1 2 ; 

 St. Vincent {H. H. Smith), 1 2 ; Grenada {R. H. Smith), 1 d , 2 2 ; 

 Grenadines, Union I. (H. H. Smith), 1 2 '? Venezuela, 1 c? type 

 pyralidoides ; Brazil, Santarem (Bates), 2 d* , 3 2 type prasina, 

 Sao Paulo (Jones), 22, Castro Parana, type f c^isimcto in Coll, 

 Schaus ; Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 1 6 ; Peru, Callao (J. J. 

 Walker), 3 d • Exj). 28-36 millim. 



Larva. Eiley, Am. Ent. iii. p. 7. 



(Redescribed.) Head green, tubercle ii black. Body green, a 

 dorsal and lateral blackish shade. Substigmatal band broad, white, 

 reddish filled ; subventral area pale. Tubercles large, conical, black ; 

 cervical shield black, cut by pale dorsal line. Peet blackish. Food- 

 plants : Eliexia, Solamum sieglinge, and Tobacco. — H. G. D. 



Genus OXYLOS. 



Type. 



Oxylos, Grote, Check ListNoct. p. 19 (1875) citrinellus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique to beyond frons, the 2nd joint 

 slightly fringed with hair below ; frons with slight rounded prominence ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennje of male ciliated ; bead and thorax clothed with hair ; 

 fore tibire short and broad, with two long curved claws and three spines on 

 inner side and four claws on outer ; mid and hind tibiae strongly spineii. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



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