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middle median at one-fifth and lower at tliree-fifths ; submedian basal branch short : 

 hindwing narrow, apex convexly pointed, exterior margin very oblique, abdominal 

 margin very short ; cell extending to one-third the wing ; subcostal spur short ; two 

 subcostal branches on a footstalk at a little distance beyond the cell ; discocellular 

 outwardly oblique, angled inward above the radial ; middle median at one-sixth and 

 lower at three-sixths before end of the cell. Body long, fusiform, abdomen slender; 

 second joint of palpi broadly triangular, pointed in front, compact, first joint laxly 

 clothed; antennge moderately long, slender ; legs very long. (Type, P. J.cfeMS.) 



PEEGESA ACTEUS (Plate 88, Fig. 1, la, larva). 



Sphinx Acteus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 93, pi. 248, fig. A (1782). 



0?-eus Acteus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 136. 



Pergesa Acteus, Walker, Catal. Lap. Hat. B. M. viii. p. 153 (1856) ; Moore, Catal. Lap. Mus. E.I.C. 



i. p. 272, pi. 10, dg. 1, la (1857). 

 Clicerocampa Acteus,'Bo\s,di\iYa\, Spec. Geo. Lap. Hat. p. 257. 



Forewing olive-green, the costal margin pale pinkish olive-brown, the exterior 

 margin with a broad purplish-brown band having an irregular inner border and 

 longitudinally traversed by pale lunules, the olive-green middle area of the wing 

 obliquely traversed from the apex to middle of posterior margin by darker green 

 lines, and a broader inner darker parallel fascia which inci-eases in width posteriorly ; 

 a black dot at lower end of the cell : hindwing dusky purplish-brown, with a short 

 reddish-ochreous fascia from the anal angle ; cilia ochreous. Body dark olive-green, 

 a purplish-grey dorsal band on thorax and abdomen ; sides of thorax, head, palpi, 

 and legs above purplish-grey ; sides of abdomen reddish-ochreous, yellowish beneath. 



Expanse 2^ to 2J inches. 



Larva pale olivaceous-green ; on fifth segment a large lateral blue ocellus ringed 

 with white, green, and yellow ; on sixth to eleventh segments an oval green-ringed 

 yellowish oblique lateral spot, below each of which is an oblique whitish stripe ; a 

 dorsal blue line on anterior segments, and a pale waved subdorsal line from the 

 ocellas to head ; horn pink ; spiracles white. 



" Feeds on Arum orixense." 



Genus AGOSMERYX. 

 Acosmeryx, Boisduval, Spec. Geu. Lap. Het. p. 214 (1874) ; Butlar, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 245. 

 Forewing : costa slightly arched, apex pointed, exterior margin oblique, in the 

 male slightly sinuous and angulated outward below the apex and again in the middle ; 

 cell not extending to half the wing ; first subcostal at one-third and second at one- 

 sixth, fourth at one-fourth beyond the cell and fifth from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 convex, inwardly oblique, radial from below the middle ; the middle median at one- 

 sixth and lower at one-half before end of the cell ; submedian and basal branch much 



