AMPHIMOEA; PROTOPARCE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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C. antaeus Drc. (= caricae Mull., jatrophae F.). A very large species, separated from all the species anlaeus. 
with a hyaline disc on the hindwing by the marginal band projecting like a pointed tooth between the veins. 
Forewing without green with a lateral brown intermixture and a whitish strongly notched antemedian line. 
The nomenclatural form is the insular form from the Antilles (Jamaica, Nassan, Bahamas). The continental 
form: — medor Sioll (= anona Shaw., antaeus Mschlr, cluentius Troschel, hydaspus Cr., tapayusa Moore) (90 a) medor. 
is somewhat darker, mostly somewhat more variegated, with more intense black markings, the black marginal 
band of the hind wing projects more deeply and pointedly into the yellow basal spot in the inner-marginal 
spot. Florida to Southern Brazil. Larva with fine hair as in cluentius. Green with inconspicuous whitish 
oblique stripes bordered with a darker colour above, only the last stripe terminating into the horn is a broad 
white stripe; dorsal line violettish-red, bordered with white on both sides. It lives on Anona cherimolia. 
3. Genus: Ampliimoea R.&J. 
Allied to Gocytius in a certain way, but separated by the last palpal joint being more square when 
looked at from above, and projecting scarcely farther than in Protoparce. The long terminal spur of the pos¬ 
terior tibia is half the length of the 1st tarsal joint; paronychium bilobate on each side; anterior tibiae without 
thorns. Only 1 species: 
A. walkeri Bsdv. (= staudingeri Drc., magnificus Rothsch.) (91 a) is probably one of the largest Sphinges walkeri. 
beside cluentius. Forewing greenish-grey, disc of hindwing semi diaphanous. Abdomen with 4 yellow longitudinal 
stripes, the yellow lateral spots placed longitudinally. An evidently rare species, distributed from Nicaragua 
to Southern Brazil. Larva and pupa already figured by Merian, then by Burmeister; it is said to live on 
Jatropha. 
4. Genus: Protoparce Bunn. 
A large number of species which are sometimes difficult to separate from each other, whilst others 
are of an entirely different exterior. Structurally similar to the preceding ones. Proboscis of about the same 
length as the body; end of palpus on a level with the frons, last joint very short; last joint of antenna long 
and thin. Paronychium with one lobe on each side. Larvae mostly provided with oblique lateral bands; they 
live on Solanaceae. 
P. sexta Johanns. (— Carolina L., nicotianae Men., lycopersici Bsdv.) (91 a) is a very common species, sexta. 
easily recognized, grey, partly strewn with brownish, mostly with an intense blackish darkening outside below 
the cell-end, and a white notched line close before the white-speckled fringe. Hindwing with 3 or 4 whitish 
transverse bands. Abdomen with large reddish-yellow subdorsal spots as far as the last segment and intense 
white punctiform spots above. 3 usually of a more subdued colouring and more brownish than the $. The 
nomenclatural type shows a very prominent white submarginal notched band of the forewing, and the whitish 
bands of the hindwing are more or less shaded. It occurs from Canada down to Honduras. — jamaicensis Btlr. jamaicensis. 
(= paphus Men.) is less bright and more brownish, the hindwing browner, mostly very difficult to separate 
from the type. Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and Bahamas. — paphus Cr. (= nicotianae Bsdv., tabaci Bsdv., cestri paphus. 
Bsdv., griseata Btlr.) is the form chiefly distributed from Costa Rica to Argentina, generally with somewhat 
paler forewings, the white submarginal line less prominent, the light bands of the hindwing of a purer white. 
The larva occasionally lacks the black dots bordering on the oblique lines in the other races. — caestri Blch. caestri. 
(= eurylochus Phil.) is a small and very light Chilian form; the white submarginal line of the fore wing is 
almost or entirely absent, the black cliscal line is more prominent on the light ground, in the same way as the 
white dots on the abdomen. — luciae Gehlen, from Sa. Lucia, is remarkably different from jamaicensis , small, tuciae. 
prominently coloured and marked; fore wing more yellowish-brown, not grey, the bands of the hindwing of 
a pure black with white spaces between. The yellow abdominal spots are dark orange, the black median 
band is very distinct. —- fuliginosa Closs is a form with a very distinct light postdiscal line, from Sao Paulo, fuliginosa. 
more extensively suffused with a smoky brownish colour, probably found everywhere among the typical form. 
The larva is green, generally smooth, on the white woolly Solanum grandiflorum, but according to Moss also 
covered with fine hairs, with white oblique lines bordered by black dots above, and a reddish horn. It lives 
on all kinds of Solanaceae, such as tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, Spanish pepper, etc. and transforms, in a 
spacious underground cave, to a mahogany-brown pupa with a long, not rolled up case of the proboscis. 
P. mossi Jord. is near to sexta, especially to its form caestri, separated by thinner antennae, blacker mossi. 
palpi, and a pure white underside of the abdomen; the wings are more pointed, the white colour in the fringe 
predominates upon the black spotting of it; the blackish-brown darkening in the disc of the forewing is absent, 
also the blackish-brown submarginal band of the hindwing; body above of a purer smoke-grey colour, the 
collar mostly exhibits an olive yellow line instead of a black one; the yellow lateral spots on the abdomen 
are smaller than in sexta and have broader black borders. Genital apparatus very different. The green larva, 
very frequently covered with parasites, shows white oblique stripes bordered with darker above, and a dark 
dorsal line bordered with white, but interrupted at the posterior end of each segment. It lives on Oestrum 
hediundinum. Peru. 
