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53. Hasdrubal. — Grayish, or, somewhat hoary ; hind wings blackish brown, whitish about inner angle, with 

 brown wavy lines. 



61. Brontes ? — Cinereous ; hind wings brownish, with three blackish streaks. 



\ Tongue one-third longer than the body. 



62. Forestall. — Hoary or gray ; hind wings blackish brown, with a white patch above the inner angle, and 



sometimes three faint blackish lines. 

 §§ Hind wings with distinct bands. 

 60. Quinquemaculata. — Gray ; fore wings immaculate at the base, hind wings with two distinct angulated 



bands. 



57. Instita. New sp. — Brown ; with the costa and connected basal, median and apical patches black on the 



anterior wings. 



58. Cingulata. — Hind wings pink ; abdomen with pink spots. 



59. Carolina. — Cinereous ; fore wings with a white spot at the base, central bands of hind wings indistinct. 



52. M. Collaris Walker, p. 201 . 



Hoary, white beneath. Thorax dark brown in front, and with some brown marks on each side. Abdo- 

 men with a much interrupted, middle, brown line, and with transverse, brown spots along each side. 

 Wings brown beneath. Fore wings with a white discal dot, and with oblique, undulating, transverse, brown 

 lines ; also with a testaceous streak which extends from the base to an oblique, undulating, testaceous 

 band. Hind wings brown, whitish at the base and along the anterior border, and with two hoary bands. 

 Length of the body 18 — 19 lines ; of the wings 42 — 46 lines. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. ? 



Pupation. ? 



Food-plants. ? 



Geographical distribution. — West Indies. 



53. M. Hasdrubal. — Sphinx Hasdrubal Cramer, III. 90, pi. 246, f. F. Hyloicus Hasdrubal Hubner, 

 V. S. 139, 1488. Sphinx Asdrubal Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba, Decade II., with figure of larva. Macro- 

 sila Hasdrubal Walker, p. 202. 



Somewhat hoary. Head and thorax grayish brown, the latter with a black streak on the upper edge of 

 tegulae. Abdomen with indistinct, lateral, blackish patches, edged before with whitish. Fore wings with 

 a black streak at the base, with two wavy, black lines crossing the posterior part of the disc ; black marks 

 on the costa, and marginal black spots and a series of dots on the median nervules. Hind wings blackish 

 brown, white along the interior angle, with brown undulating lines. Male. — The anterior wings principally 

 brown. (Smaller than the 9 with the black lines more distinct. The undersurface in both ash-gray 

 with two brown bands. — Poey.~) 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. Gen. Char. — Head large. Body nearly uniformly cylindrical, with anal shield broad 

 and truncate at the extremity. Caudal horn extremely long, slender and membranous. — Head reddish 

 brown. Body black, with nine or ten bright yellow, transverse bands on the middle of the segments. 

 The first segment, the prolegs and a spot, whence rises the caudal horn, reddish brown, dotted with 

 black. (Poey' s Jig.) 



Pupation. — The larval transformation takes place on the surface, where the pupa is covered simply by 

 the superficial debris. The pupa is represented without the detached tongue-case. (Poey.) 



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