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acute at the tips than in the other species of this genus. Hind 

 wings with two hlackish stripes ; exterior border slightly emargi- 

 nate. Length of the body 15 — 19 lines ; of the wings 30 — 40 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 b — g. Mexico. From Mr. Hartweg's collection. 



9. ClLEROCAMPA DrANCUS. 



Nigro-fusca, vitta media necnon capitis thoracisque lateribus albi- 



dis ; thorax et abdomen luteo bivittata ; alee anticee striga 



basali dimidioque postico exteriore cervinis, Uriels exterioribus 



ferrugineis et nigris, gutta diseali plagisque duabus posticis 



nigris. 



Sphinx Drancus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 56, pi. 132, f. F. 

 Xylophanes Drancus, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 136, 1460. 



West Indies. 



South America. 



Group 1. 



Much like the preceding group, but more or less tinged with 

 green. Fore wings with distinct lines. 



10. ChjErocampa Crotonis. 



Viridescente-cervina, subtus lutea ; caput et thorax albido bilineata ; 

 abdomen plag is duabus basalibus nigris, lateribus luieis, sub- 

 tus albidum ; alee antica macula basali guttaque diseali 

 nigris lineisque nonnullis exterioribus subparallelis fuscis ; 

 posticce nigrce, fascia maculari pallide flava. 



Var. <3. Thorax et abdomen vitta dorsali albida. 



Var. y. Alee anticee virides. 



Chaerocampa Crotonis, Boisd. MSS. 



Greenish fawn-colour, pale luteous beneath. Head and thorax 

 with a whitish line along each side. Abdomen with a black patch 

 along each side at the base, luteous along each side ; disk beneath 

 whitish. Fore wings with a black spot at the base, with a black dis- 

 sal dot, and with several exterior nearly parallel brown lines. 

 Hind wings black, with a macular pale yellow band. Length of the 

 body 17 — 20 lines ; of the wings 36 — 40 lines. 



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