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figure, pi. 525, which is dark brown, and the anterior wings lute- 

 ous brown, with a broad dark brown median band tinged obscure 

 purple. The following individual from Brazil, in the collection of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, appears to me 

 to come nearer to Cramer's figure. 



Dark brown ; thorax distinctly crested. Abdomen dark brown 

 with a double row of spots on the sides, and a small lateral rufous 

 terminal tuft and a long central one dark brown, with a cinereous 

 ring just above them ; beneath, a dull cinereous central line edged 

 with dark brown. Anterior wings dark brown varied with obscure 

 purplish ; basal portion dark brown, with a dark median patch 

 chiefly beneath the median nerve and intersected by paler lines on 

 the inner margin, and bordered behind and above broadly with a 

 paler hue ; a dark brown patch extending from the origin of sub- 

 costo-inferior vein to the tip of post-apical, excavated on each side 

 beneath, and extended as a line to the margin at the end of medio- 

 posterior vein, inclosing a lighter patch in the middle on the costa, 

 and at the tip mixed with rufous ; a testaceous curved marginal 

 patch. Posterior wings dark brown, paler towards the hind mar- 

 gin. Posterior legs hairy to the end of the tarsi. 



Mexico, West Indies, South America. 



Clemens. 



DEILEPHILA Ochs. 



The body is usually stout and thick. The head moderate, 

 prominent; the front smooth, rather broad and long, semi-ellip- 

 tical ; the eyes moderate ; the tips of the palpi level with the 

 front; the tongue as long or nearly as long as the body; the 

 antennae clavate, terminating suddenly in a minute hook and seta. 

 The thorax is thick, and tapers abruptly to the head. The abdo- 

 men is thick and cylindrico-conical, about twice as long as the 

 thorax, and tapers rather suddenly at the terminal segments, 

 having at the tip a more or less distinct, short pencil of hairs. 

 The wings are entire ; the length of the anterior equal to that of 

 the body, rather more than twice and a half longer than broad, 

 the hind margin obliquely convex; the inner somewhat concave 

 above the interior angle. The posterior wings are rounded at the 

 tip and the hind border slightly excised near the interior angle. 



