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lines and streaks, sometimes with the margins brown in part. 

 Posterior wings rufescent or reddish brown, with a terminal blackish 

 brown band and a small cinereous patch at the interior angle. 



S. America ; Mexico ; West Indies. 



Clemens. 



Hind margin of fore wings not denticulated, entire? 

 7. A. caicus Cramer, II, pi. 125. 



Cinereous. Thorax with three blackish brown stripes. Abdo- 

 men with two dorsal black lines and broad interrupted black bands. 

 Anterior wings with pale brownish and blackish brown lines in the 

 interspaces, a blackish brown line on the inner margin and a white 

 discal line. Posterior wings red, with black radii from the hind 

 margin. 



South and Central America; West Indies. 



Clemens. 



DOLBA Walker. 



Size moderate or small. The body is stout, and rather short. 

 The head rather small, but free and moderately prominent ; the 

 front broad, vertical, rounded and obtuse ; the eyes quite small 

 and scarcely salient ; the palpi nearly horizontal and equal to the 

 front; the tongue somewhat longer than the body; the antennae 

 rather slender, with a short hook and seta, and about as long as 

 the thorax. The thorax but little advanced anterior to the base 

 of fore wings, tapering but little to the head and rounded in front. 

 The abdomen rather conical, and about twice the length of the 

 thorax. The length of the anterior wings rather more than that 

 of the body, somewhat more than twice longer than broad, the tip 

 rounded, the hind margin entire and oblique, somewhat prominent 

 in the middle and slightly concave above the inner angle ; inner 

 margin slightly concave. Posterior wings obtusely rounded at the 

 tip, hind margin entire and somewhat concave before the inner 

 le. 



1. D. hylseus Drury. Figured in Drury II, pi. 25. Sm. Abb. I, pi. 35. 

 Sphinx prini Abbot & Smith. Hyloicus dynseus Hiibner. 



Palpi white beneath. Head and thorax brownish ferruginous, 

 and whitish on the sides, with two white dots on the disk of thorax 



