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AMPELOECA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
; pallida. region excepting Jamaica. — pallida Gloss shows the light markings of the wings still wider and with a reddish 
hesperidum. tint. From Brazil, Blumenau. hesperiduni Ky. is the race from Jamaica, in which the markings of the forewing 
are of a purer white, moreover mostly only the veins 2 and 3 are striped white, 4 remains more or less darkened. 
fuscatus. Under surface claret-coloured. — In fuscatus R. <L J. the light markings are suffused with brown, therefore 
less contrasting with the olive green markings; the subbasal band is not distinctly bordered with white, the 
brown line in the grey oblique band is indistinct, the marginal band broader, not bordered with white. Sa. Lucia, 
Grenada, St. Vincent. — Larva light bluish-green, lighter on the dorsum, or reddish claret-coloured, brown or 
olive with 5 white oblique spots very finely bordered with black, more or less granulated white. On vine. 
fasciatus. P. fasciatus Sul-z. (= jussieuae Him., strigilis Vogel, vitis Dru.) (98 D a). Very similar to vitis, but at 
once discernible by the hindwing being carmine also at the distal margin. The antemedian band of the forewing 
is rudimentary, the discal spot plain, not divided. The hindwing lacks the black median band, but it has a very 
broad black subterminal band. — Larva very different, green, yellow, or brown, with numerous black transverse 
lines and with 7 white or yellow oblique stripes. It lives on Jussieua (Onagraceae). In the whole neotropical 
region, to the south as far as Patagonia, migrating to the north as far as New England. 
phorbas. Ph. phorbas Or. (= pandion Stoll) (98 D b) and the following capronnieri are distinguished by orange 
hindwings. Forewing deep olive green with darker green markings, 2 lines similarly convergent to the inner 
margin as in labruscae, the exterior one cut by an oblique line extending from the centre of the costal margin 
to the end of vein 3 on the distal margin; apex parted by a straight line which is continued to the inner margin 
in a thrice broken line; some of the lines are bordered with silvery bluish-grey. Hindwing with a marginal hand 
and a notched median line. From Venezuela and Surinam to Para; Trinidad. 
capronnieri. Ph. capronnieri Bsd. (98 D b) is somewhat like phorbas in the scheme of markings, but the ground¬ 
colour is light fawn, greenish light grey behind the notched subterminal line; a basal inner-marginal spot, the 
broad distal border of the antemedian line as well as that of the distal oblique line to the margin on vein 3 are 
olive green in a broad triangular shape; a distinct discal spot at the cell-end. Hindwing orange with a blackish- 
brown marginal band and a broad median band from the anal angle to the costal margin. Surinam; Venezuela; 
Amazons; Ecuador. 
labruscae. Ph. labruscae L. (= clotho F .) (98 D c) is a universally known beautiful green species with 2 lines 
convergent towards the inner margin and enclosing a somewhat darker median area. Hindwing blue, spotted 
black, pale yellowish at the inner margin and anal angle, marked with red stripes. — The young larva is green 
or brown, with a pink horn, in the adult stage brownish, without a horn, with thickened 3rd and 4th segments, 
the latter with an ocellus, the young larva with 6 green oval lateral spots, the adult with a blue, dentatelv 
bordered dorsal band terminating on the 11th segment in an ocellus instead of the horn On Vitis and Ampe- 
lopsis. Very widely distributed from Canada to Patagonia, but only as a migratory insect in the northernmost 
and southernmost districts. 
Tribe: Nephelicae. 
51. Genus: Auipeloeea R. & J. 
The genus contains only 2 medium-sized, moderately slender Sphingidae from North America. Haed 
with a rounded tuft, eyes ciliated; antenna rather long and slender with a short terminal segment; pulvillus 
and paronychium present. Wings entirely margined. Costal margin of hindwing not produced. 
Type: A. versicolor Harris. 
versicolor. A. versicolor Harris (98 Dc). Olive green with 2 whitish tripartite antemedian and postmedian lines, 
the latter only tripartite below the costal margin, and with an oblique dark green median band and a small 
discal dot. Hindwing light reddish cinnamon. Easily recognizable beneath by the very bright yellow postmedian 
lutescens. colouring in both wings. — ab. lutescens Clark is yellow on the forewing, hindwing lemon-coloured, slightly 
darkened at the anal angle. 1 A from Long Island. — Larva green or brown with light subdorsal lines as far 
as the 4th segment and 7 light oblique bands behind them; horn long with a black dorsal stripe. On Cepha- 
lanthus, Nesaea, Hydrangea. Canada to Maryland; to the west as far as the Mississippi basin. 
myron. A. myron Cr. (98 D b). Ground-colour olive grey, mostly with a feeble reddish tinge and olive green 
antemedian and postmedian transverse bands, and a thick discal dot. The nomenclatural form is distinctly 
cnotus. marked and of contrasting colours. — cnotus Him. (— pampinatrix Abb. & Sm.) is the form from Florida to 
texana. Mexico with a much duller and more monotonous colouring, more brownish. —- subsp. texana Clark, from the 
Gulf States as far as Texas and New Mexico, is somewhat larger and of a much lighter colouring, light brown, 
lutescens. with darker brown markings, but less contrasting than the nomenclatural form. — ab. lutescens Clark is yellowish 
on the forewing, lemon-coloured on the hindwing. — Larva green or brown with light subdorsal lines extending 
to the horn and oblique lateral stripes, the dorsum with light spots centred with dark brown. On vine. 
