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in the marginal area there are long black sagittary streaks between the veins. The 9 is still darker bluish-grey, 
the hindwing is more broadly smoky at the margin. California. 
C. pronuba B. <£■ McD. (= nanuscula JJyar) (37 b) likewise greatly resembles sagittata from which it is pronubu. 
at once discernible by entirely white hindwings; the forewing is longer and narrower, dark grey, the marking 
rather indistinct; the reniform macula is a small narrow dark Inna; the apex is parted by a darker diffuse spot. 
New Mexico. 
C. vitrina Wlcr. ( — terminella Grt., Candida Sm., divisa H .-Schaff.) (37 b) is somewhat larger, the viirina. 
whitish forewing is irrorated with yellowish brownish-grey, in the marginal area suffused with brown ; no maculae, 
the transverse lines indicated by costal-marginal streaks, the course of the posterior line by vein-dots; behind 
the white undulate line there are black internerval streaks. The 9 exhibits a strong black streak along the 
median as far as the undulate line. Hindwing diaphanous white, at the margin smoky. Texas, Arizona, and 
Mexico, and in many West Indian islands (Bahamas, Cuba, Hayti, Grenada). - The insular form bahamensis bahamensi 
Strd. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) is more bluish-grey without any brown in the marginal area. Bahamas and Cuba. 
C. esula Drc. (37 c) is larger, stronger, with broader wings, and darker than the preceding, brown esula. 
mixed with greyish-white, on the veins and folds black-striped, with long crenulate transverse lines, the posterior 
line distally bordered with white. Hindwing whitish, on the veins and margin brownish. Widely distributed 
and common from Texas to Panama and in Grenada. 
C. terens Wkr. (37 c) has narrower wings than the preceding, of a greyish-white colour irrorated terens. 
with blackish-brown, with darker striped veins; the anterior transverse line is composed of black internerval 
streaks, the posterior line of a row of vein-dots; no ring-macula, the reniform macula is a minute wdritish spot. 
Hindwing as in esula. Venezuela to Peru and Paraguay. 
69. Genus: I*ro<Ienut Gn. 
Rather large, slender species with narrow long wings of very homogeneous markings and colourings, 
with a number of species being well-known as vermins. Proboscis well developed, frons smooth, the moderately 
long erect palpus extending to the middle of the frons. The scaled thorax exhibits a parted tuft only behind, 
the abdomen is tufted on the first rings. C'f. also Vol. Ill, p. 206. 
P. rubrifusa Hmps. (37 d) has bright red-brown, blackish-strewn, in the basal area yellowish forewings, rubrifusa. 
yellowish are also a costal-marginal spot behind the anterior transverse line and in the hindmarginal half of 
the postmedian area and an oblong spot above the coniform macula; the other markings as in the other species. 
Hindwing diaphanous white, at the apex somewhat brownish. From Jamaica. 
P. dolichos F. ( = commelinae Sm. & Abb.) (37 d) has a paler brownish forewing, being yellowish dolichos. 
in the hindmarginal part of the median area up to the submedian fold, with double transverse lines filled up 
with whitish, the reniform macula being distally above the longest extended of all the species; to the centre 
of the posterior transverse line runs a light apical patch, turning red-brown right before it. Most widely 
distributed from the United States to Brazil and Argentina. The brown larva has yellowish-white subdorsal 
lines with black wedge-shaped spots above them, and a black lateral spot on the 5th ring. 
P. pulchella H.-Schaff. (= exquisita Mschlr.) (37 d) is a smaller species with a more blackish-brown pulchella. 
forewing, distinguished by a white arcuate streak above the centre of the hind-margin and silvery grey irroration 
at the hind-margin before the anterior transverse line; this line and the posterior line are double, filled up with 
yellowish; the apex is parted by a violettish-white apical patch. Honduras, Jamaica, and Cuba. 
P. androgea Cr. (=-- marmorea Sepp). A very large species, reddish-brown, darker irrorated and androgen. 
black-strewn, with an oblique bluish-white spot from the apex to the posterior transverse line, turning violet 
right before it; from the oblique yellow ring-macula a long white splintered spot extends to the subterminal 
line at the submedian fold, whereby it is easily discernible from the other similar species. The diaphanous 
white hindwing is somewhat brownish irrorated at the apex and margin. Panama to Brazil, besides in Sa. 
Lucia and Trinidad. 
P. latifascia Wkr. (- - variolosa Wkr., cosmioides Wkr., commelinae Drc.) (37 c) is the most extensively latifasda. 
yellow species, in the basal area whitish with a little greyish-brown behind it, behind the postmedian line bluish 
white with a red-brown costal spot. The 9 is browner in the discal area, only at the hind-margin yellow, with 
a white-striped median and its branches, the maculae better marked, and a darker postmedian area. Mexico 
to Argentina and Paraguay, also in the Southern United States. 
