PROTOPARCE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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Jamaica. The race — harterti Rothsch. (= rustica Snell.), from the Lesser Antilles and Curagao, scarcely differs, harterti. 
but the dark costal-marginal triangle is always distinctly lighter. — In cubana Wood the dark parts of the cubana. 
forewing are brown, not black, the central area is uniformly connected with the dark distal margin. — domini- dominicana. 
catia Gelilen is a still larger form with more slender wings, the upper surface and the body more extensively 
and purely white; the dark areas are not brown as in cubana, but black; the white spots of the bind wing are 
larger; S. Domingo, Haiti. — postseripta Clark is distinguished by more intensely marked hindwings of a lighter postscripta. 
ground-colour, with more distinct black transverse bands. The finely granulated lightgreen larva is more 
whitish above and has 7 white oblique bands which are bordered with dark green or violettish-red above; it 
lives on Chionanthus, Bignonia etc. It also occurs in a dark purple brown variety; before the pupation it turns 
dirty pink and covers itself with a foamy sticky substance like some other species of the genus. It pupates in 
a spacious underground hollow. 
P. calapagensis Holl. The only type known is a distinct species and not a subspecies of rustica. Ground- calapa- 
colour more chalky white, chiefly on the thorax and the abdomen above; a uniformly bent thick black line, gensis. 
6 mm long, laterally on the patagia. Wings differently shaped, the interior angle of the fore wing being obtusely 
angled, above and below it the distal margin and inner margin are slightly concave, the distal margin convex 
towards the apex. All the rest as in rustica. Galapagos I. 
P. nigrifa R. d- J . is likewise a distinct species and not an aberration of rustica, as the authors presumed, nigrita. 
5 quite similar specimens are hitherto known. The lateral abdominal spots are white, not yellow. The trans¬ 
verse band of the hindwing is not dentate beneath, but coherent and rectilinearly defined. Strictly separated 
from rustica by the different genital organ. The larva lives on Erigeron lancifolius and Croton scouleri. 
P. albiplaga Wkr. (= cluentius Burm., rustica Burm., trojanus Schauf., valida Boisdv.) (92 a) is some- albiplaga. 
what similar to rustica, but the two white transverse bands are reduced to 2 large, indistinctly bordered ante- 
median and subapical spots and not traversed by distinct but only blurred shadowy lines; a small white costal- 
marginal triangle is above the distinct white discal dot. Mexico to Southern Brazil. The bluish-white larva has 
8—10 lateral bright yellow spots bordered with black, and black belts interrupted above on each ring behind. 
It lives on Boraginaceae and Anona, mostly in small numbers together. — exacta Gehlen, according to 1 from exada. 
Matto Grosso, shows a more extensive and purer white which is also more distinctly defined against the dark 
areas; the anal-angular spot of the hindwing and the 1st abdominal ring are also more extensively and purer white. 
P. trimacula R. ds J . is closely allied to albiplaga and also to dalica. Colouring and marking somewhat trimacula. 
like that of rustica, the white colour of albiplaga is confined to 3 submarginal spots at the anal angle, above the 
centre and above the apical oblique streak, and besides a small spot in the postmedian line below the costal 
margin is white, too. Hindwing with quite obsolete lighter band-markings. Colombia (Cauca and Rio Dagua). 
P. leucospila R. d J. exhibits a colouring between rustica and dalica, with narrower wings. Abdomen leucospila. 
as in rustica, but more intermixed with white scales towards the end. Fore wing similar to that of rustica, a 
triangular costal-marginal area before the stigma, the fillings in the antemedian and postmedian lines partly 
somewhat lighter reddish-yellow, a large apical spot, an anal spot, and the notched submarginal line white. 
Hindwing similar to that of dalica. Peruvian Amazons. 
P. dalica Ky. (= garleppi Rothsch.) (92 b) is very closely allied to the preceding species and wellcharac- dalica. 
terized by a large white triangular spot at the costal margin above the white stigma; ground-colour more 
purple brown; a broader white subbasal band. Known from Costa Rica, Peru, and Colombia. — In anthina anthina. 
Jord. the ground-colour of the fore wing is light brown from the white subbasal markings to the thick black 
postdiscal undulate line, scarcely shaded darker between the discal lines and the postdiscal line. Rio de Janeiro. 
P. brontes Dru. (= pamphilius Stoll, collaris Wlcr.). This species introduces a group of closely allied brontes. 
forms that are sometimes difficult to separate; all are more or less whitish-grey with black dentate lines; 
brontes is characterized by a brownish-black collar and a black spot bordered with rusty red, on each side of 
the metathorax. Veins 2 and 3 not striped black. In the q of the nomenclatural form the postdiscal area and 
a strijie above the distal half of the inner margin is tinted reddish-yellow, in the $ the tegulae, the basal 
and marginal areas of the forewing, and an anal-angular spot of the hindwing are whiter than in — cubensis cubensis. 
Grt. (= brontes Luc.), from Cuba, Bahamas, Porto Rico, and South Florida, which is somewhat more distinctly 
marked black besides. The nomenclatural type is from Jamaica. — haitiensis Clark (92 c) is intermediate haitiensis. 
between brontes and cubensis, but nearer to brontes; the black markings are less intense than in cubensis, the 
colouring is darker and more unicoloured than in brontes, the reddish-yellow spots are absent. Haiti. — smythi smythi. 
Clark (92 d) has much broader wings, the colouring is much more yellowish or brownish, the markings are 
dark brown. Porto Rico. The larva of brontes is very much like that of sexta, with the same oblique lateral 
bands, but the spiracles are bright orange. 
