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PROTOPARCE. By Dr. M. Dbaudt. 
ajflicia. P. afflicta Grt. ( = paphus H.-S.) is very near to sexta, the forewings are more greenish grey owing 
to yellow scales being intermixed, the hindwing with but two distinct white bands, the marginal band in- 
bahamensis. tensely dusted with yellow. Cuba; Haiti; Amazons. — bahamensis Clark (91 b), founded upon one specimen 
from Nassan, is larger, greyer above, more intermixed with white, whereby it is more variegated, the scanty 
markings more intensely black. Larva green, with lighter green oblique bands, 2 light dorsal lines and white 
stigmata. 
quinque- P. quinquemaculatus Harr. (= Carolina Don., celens Hbn., maculata Grt.) (91 b). A well-known species, 
maculatus. reC0 g n i za p( e by the hardly dentate subterminal band of the forewing showing a distinct and double black 
border. The light grey hindwing exhibits 2 sharply notched median lines before the broad black subterminal 
band. Separated from all the other species by the presence of some thorny bristles on the anterior tibiae. 
North America to Mexico; a somewhat deviating form occurs in the Sandwich Is: blackburni Btlr. in which 
the small triangular light postdiscal spots reach to the costal margin, which is mostly not the case in the 
wirti. nomenclatural type. — wirti Schs., according to a bred $ from Virginia, is a form with a much darker ground¬ 
colour, more reddish-brown, with hardly any white, only outside at the subterminal line and in the marginal 
line. Hindwing and ventral side chestnut brown. Larva similar to that of sexta, of a variable colouring: green, 
brown, or black, covered with many light dots, with a light interrupted longitudinal band below the stigmata. 
It chiefly lives on tomatoes and potatoes. 
dilucida. P. dilucida Edw. (= indistincta Rothsch.) has much lighter grey brown fore wings with distinctly con¬ 
trasting white markings the scheme of which is exactly as in the preceding species. Antennae long and, parti¬ 
cularly in the S, relatively thick. Abdomen with normally 4, rarely 3 yellow lateral spots. Pulvillus absent. 
An apparently rarer species, found from Mexico to Honduras. Larva not yet known. 
kuschei. P. kusehei Clark is only separable by the different genital apparatus, the $ is more monotonously 
coloured, greyer, the white inner-marginal area of dilucida is entirely absent. Expanse of wings' 76—88 mm. 
Mexico, Sinaloa. 
lucetius. P. lucetius Stoll (= contracta Btlr., hannibal Burm.) (91 c) is well characterized by a large blackisli- 
brown crescentiform spot with a silky lustre at the costal margin of the forewing, contrasting with the other¬ 
wise bronze brownish or more olive grey ground-colour. Fringe only white-dotted on the vein-ends, but the 
white colour occasionally expands inwards, or it may also be absent altogether. Hindwing as in petuniae. 
nubila. Guiana, Peru, Brazil to Argentina. — rmbila R. <£• J ., from Costa Rica, has a somewhat longer shape of the 
wings and a less brownish colouring in the basal and discal areas, the black postmedian line less curved. Costa 
panaquire. Rica. - panaquire Berg (= argentina Clark) makes a more variegated impression owing to the very light 
brownish colouring around the dark costal marginal spot. The yellow abdominal spots are very bright orange 
and larger than in C. lucetius. From Tucuman (Argentina) and Bolivia. The early stages seem to be unknown. 
reduda. P. reducta Gehlen is closely allied with lucetius, but it has narrower, more elongated and pointed 
wings, and thinner and shorter antennae. Head and thorax lighter than in lucetius. Collar with a black median 
stripe. Abdomen above similar as in Clarki, white beneath with scanty small brown hairs. Forewing lighter 
and greyer above, not so reddish as in lucetius, basal area with hardly any marking, the discal macular band 
straighter, not so much excurved, the area before it lighter, the postdiscal undulate line steeper, more parallel 
to the distal margin and not so undulated. Hindwing differs from lucetius only in the shape, apex more pointed, 
anal spots more projecting. The 1st joint of the posterior tarsus is longer than in lucetius, the anterior tarsi 
have longer spines. Peru (Huayabamba). 
diffissa. P„ diffissa Btlr. ( = cestri Bsdv., petuniae var. Bsdv., diffusa Drc.) is intensely brown on the forewing, 
the notched transverse lines are not distinctly prominent on the irrorated ground; the postmedian lines are 
more angular below the centre. A white, black-edged dot at the cell-end. The black hindwing is grey at the 
margin and shows 2 whitish bands. The nomenclatural type is a small light form with a distinct black post- 
petuniae. median line. Argentina and Paraguay. — petuniae Bsdv. (= diffissa Ky.) is tinted somewhat more reddish- 
tropicalis. brown, but variable in the colour. From Sa. Catharina, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Geraes. — tropicalis R. & J. 
(= lucetius Rothsch.) is the common form with darker and less yellowish forewings, likewise rather variable, 
ochracea. but never so light as petuniae. From Minas Geraes to the north as far as Colombia and Ecuador. — ochracea 
Clark is distinguished by its light ochreous ground-colouring on which the black markings are very prominent. 
mesosa. Buenos Aires. — mesosa R. & J. is intermediary between diffissa and petuniae, as dark as the latter, but less 
reddish-brown on the forewing. North-Argentina. The larva is green with 7 white oblique bands bordered 
with black dots above, with 3 blue dots each around the white stigmata; the horn is pink. The form petuniae 
is said to have dark red oblique bands edged with dark red; it lives on Cestrum. 
occulta. P. occulta R. & •/. (= lucetius Drc., petuniae Drc.) (91 c). The exterior of the imago is the same as 
that of diffissa, only the forewing is .somewhat: broader on an average. Genital organs very different from those 
of diffissa. Only know from Central America (Mexico to Panama). Larva of a bright green with little yellow 
