ORECTA; TROGOLEGNUM; SMERINTHUS. By Dr. M. Deatjdt. 
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A. globifer Dyar. Light olive ochreous, Vertex and a large spot on the tegulae olive brown; forewing globifer. 
with a large pear-shaped olive brown subbasal spot the upper end of which traverses the median vein; feeble 
double lines behind it; distal line parallel to the margin, brown, vanishing in the irregular shading of the distal 
third, a curved black line and bluish dusting near the anal angle; a brown subapical shadow. Hindwing dark 
pink with a broad brown submarginal shadow and 2 median lines. Expanse of wings: 115 mm. Mexico. 
A. donysa Drc. (97 b) is one of the most beautiful species, easily recognised by the distinct broad, non- donysa. 
dentate, very oblique median line of the forewing. light olive or yellowish-brown in the basal portion, the 
distal portion mostly of a beautiful olive green; subbasal spot large, oval, two dentate lines in the sub¬ 
terminal area. Hindwing bright carmine with a black postmedian band distally extending into long vein- 
dents, and a fine antemedian line. The $ is more monotonously brown, the distal transverse lines almost 
obsolete, a light greenish almost reniform spot crosses the transverse line between 2 and 4, the concavity 
being turned downwards. Mexico to Panama. — subsp. dariensis R. <£• J. exhibits a less sharply defined grey dariensis. 
marginal area on the fore wing beneath, and the dark spot before the antennae contrasts less with the occi¬ 
put. Costa Rica. 
20. Genus: Orecta R. & J. 
Proboscis short and feeble; head small, frons vertically inclined, a comb-shapecl transverse tuft be¬ 
tween the antennae. Eyes ciliated; palpi similar as in Amplypterus. Legs shorter than in that genus. Tibiae 
spineless, only the anterior tibia with a spine at the end. Pulvillus present. Forewing with a falciform apex, 
without the subapical indentation of the preceding genera. 
Type: 0. lycidas Bsd. 
0. lycidas Bsd. (= tithonus Ky.) (97 b). Markings of a most variable development. Lighter or dark- lycidas. 
er pinkish-brownish, more yellowish in the marginal area; tegulae and the subbasal spot, which is shaped 
as in the species of the preceding genus, olive brown; some dentate transverse lines are more distinct especially 
in the marginal area and are intensified analwards. Hindwing darker pinkish-brown, at the anal angle a double 
spot edged by two blackish lines and clothed with oval scales which very easily fall off, so that it mostly 
appears transparent. The nomenclatural type is from Brazil (Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Pa¬ 
rana). —• eos Burm. (= lycidus Bunn.) (97 c) is the subspecies from Argentina and Uruguay, with less pro- eos. 
duced apex of the fore wing and a more convex distal margin; the subbasal band is more oblique, the sub¬ 
apical costal-marginal spot is smaller. Larva long and slender with a triangular head, a very long upcur- 
ved horn; green with white subdorsal lines, on Oreodaphne acutifolia. 
0. fruhstorferi Clark (97 c) is not synonymous with lycidas, but separated by its darker colouring fruli- 
ancl more intense and contrasting marking; subbasal spots more distally situated, a distinctly dark band at storferi. 
the margin; two more distinct transverse bands on the hindwing. Venezuela. 
0. acuminata Clark is light yellowish-red on the body and wings, tegulae red-brown; subbasal spot acuminata. 
2 mm broad, 4 mm long, beginning at the inner margin 3 mm behind the base and ending at the costal 
margin in a point at the first quarter; a distinct dark brown spot at the cell-apex, 3 smaller dots between 
this spot and the apex; a sharply defined band at the margin, narrowed above and at the anal angle; a dark 
longitudinal streak of 4 mm length on the submedian fold near the anal angle. Hindwing nnicoloured with 
dark brown fringe and a dark dot and transverse streak at the anal angle. Length of fore wing: 37 mm. 
1 $ from Tucuman (Argentina). 
21. Genus: Trogolegsaiim R. & J. 
Probiscis still feebler than in the preceding species, palpi short, coarsely haired; head and eyes small. 
Tibiae spineless, anterior tibia without an apical spine. Margin of forewing indented below the apex and be¬ 
tween 4 and 6; 6 and 7 of hindwing on a rather long stalk. Only 1 species: 
T. pseudambulyx Bsd. (97 c) in colouring resembles A. donysa, but the subbasal band of the forewing pseud- 
reaches the costal margin; the produced lobe below the apical indentation is broadly rounded. Total colouring ambulyx. 
duller, light reddish greyish-brown, the markings with on olive tint. Hindwing pink, the black longitudinal 
vein-marking predominates over the feebly marked transverse bands. Hitherto only known from Mexico and 
apparently extremely rare. 
22. Genus: Smerfntlms Latr. 
Proboscis very feeble and short, palpi short in the $, longer in the q ; frenulum stunted, retinaculum 
quite absent in the Antennae of $ shortly pectinated. Anterior tibia with an apical spine in cerisyi, without 
it in jamaicensis. 
Type: S. ocellata L. (palaearctic). 
