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XYLOPHANES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
curved black line extends from the subbasal spot to the costal margin, a dark green short line in the centre of 
the cell, and a feebly dentate dark green line behind the spot at the apex of the cell; another line from behind 
the centre of the inner margin to the costal margin is distally broadly bordered with dark green; a submarginal 
dentate line intensified by vein-dots; small dark marginal spots at the ends of the veins. Hindwing brownish- 
black with a reddish distal band terminating at the anal angle in a loamy yellow spot; margin green with black 
marginal dots. South-Eastern Peru. 
mirabilis. X. itsirabllis Clark (= Venator Niep.) (98 F e) resembles both adalia and ockendeni. Eorewing olive 
green with three black spots, one at the base, another spot behind the cell-end and the 3rd at the anal angle; 
some indistinct antemedian lines, 2 strong dark brown parallel postmedian lines and a dentate light bluish 
submarginal line with vein-dots; fringe speckled dark at the ends of the veins. Hindwing blackish-brown with 
a light brownish subterminal band and margin. Abdomen olive green, laterally scaled white, the last segments 
edged with white. The green antennae are red beneath. Antioquia, Colombia. 
macasensis. X. macasensis Clark is near ockendeni. Body olive yellow above, dorsum of abdomen with 2 rows of 
dark dots, light yellow beneath. Fore wing yellowish olive with the 3 black spots of ockendeni, and a small black 
stigma; a fine black irregularly curved line extends from the distal side of the subbasal spot to the costal margin; 
2 dark yellowish-green slightly dentate lines from the centre of the inner margin to the distal margin below 
the apex and from here in two black lines to the costal margin; a dark green line from the apex to the inner 
margin 1 cm before the anal angle, and behind this line a row of dark vein-dots. Hindwing blackish-brown above 
with an indistinct reddish median band ending in a spot at the inner margin; margin narrow yellowish olive, 
fringe white, dotted dark at the ends of the veins. Length of forewing: 40 mm. Macas, Ecuador. 
chiron. X. chiron Dru. (= sagittata Goeze , butus F.) (98 E f) is an unmistakable beautiful species varying from 
green to rusty brown, with one loamy brownish area each traversed and bordered by brown ancl black dentate 
lines subterminally in the anal half as well as at the costal margin, with a blackish-brown cliscal and basal spot, 
base of inner margin pale yellowish sulphur-coloured with white hairs. Hindwing black with a pale sulphureous 
black-veined median band. The nomenclatural form from Jamaica is more frequently rusty brown than green 
with rather indistinct postdiscal lines and very indistinct loamy yellowish subterminal spots. Under surface 
nechus. more yellow. — nechus Cr. (= chiron Wkr., haitensis Btlr., chironnechus R. &. J.) (98 E f) is the continental 
form distributed from Mexico to Uruguay, but it occurs also in Haiti, Porto Rico and the Bahamas. It is mostly 
lucianus. green and but very rarely rusty brown, with very distinct loam-coloured apical and anal spots. — luciatius 
R. db J. has broader forewings, a green apical line and, proximally to it, blackish-brown vein-dots; a large blackish- 
brown triangular spot in the distal third of the inner margin; the 2 loamy yellow spots are absent altogether. 
Hindwing with only 3 distinct discal spots, a fourth being feebly marked at the costal margin. Sa. Lucia. — 
cabanus. cubarius R. & •/. is smaller, with shorter forewings, the loam-coloured spots small, also the discal spots of the 
hindwing smaller and of a more reddish tint; antennae reddish-pink. Body beneath more red-brown. Cuba. — 
The larva of nechus is green with an interrupted black dorsal line, one white ocellus each in red and black rings 
on the 4th and 5th segments, often yet a yellow ocellus on the 6th segment, feebly lighter oblique stripes in the 
sides and a black subdorsal line bordered with yellow and white below, on the two penultimate segments; 
pectoral legs red. On various Rubiaceae and Icacinaceae. 
crotonis. X. crotonis Wkr. (— viridescens Btlr., aristor Btlr., virescens Ky.) (98 E f). Upper surface varying from 
green to rusty brown, under surface from ochre to rusty yellow; forewing with 7 postmedian oblique lines, the 
4th being the strongest, the 6th often provided with vein-dots. The black hindwing shows 5 wedge-shaped 
postdiscal spots besides the large yellowish-white longitudinally parted anal spot. The nomenclatural form 
aristor. has no longitudinal lines on the dorsum of the abdomen, whereas — aristor Bsd. (= hortulanus Schauf., crotonis 
Wkr., nechus Btlr.) (98 F a) has a light whitish-grey longitudinal stripe across the thorax and abdomen, edged 
by two fine darker lines. Both the forms and all kinds of transitions occur beside one another from Guatemala 
to Venezuela and Colombia. 
zikani. X. zikani Clark (98 F a) is smaller than crotonis and aristor, of a brighter green than aristor ; transverse 
lines distinct, the 1st and 4th stronger and broader than the others, straighter than in aristor-, tegulae of a 
purer white, less pink. Length of forewing: 35 mm. Passa Quatro, Minas. 
schreiteri. X. schreiteri Clark (98 E a) is very near to zikani, but darker, the apex of the fore wing more produced; 
the space between the lines 1 and 2 is filled with dark and darker than the rest of the wing, the space behind 
the cell-end and the costal margin darker, too; lines 1 and 2 somewhat undulated, all the lines more sharply 
bent towards the apex. Hindwing as in zikani. The yellow basal tufts on the abdomen are smaller. Under surface 
marked as in nabuchodonosor, but the lines not black but rusty red. Tucuman (Argentina). 
rhodochlora. X. rhodochlora It. ds J. (98 F a) is somewhat smaller than crotonis, bright dark olive green, more rusty 
red beneath. Shape of wings shorter and broader, the oblique lines of the forewing quite indistinct except the 
first and fourth, the latter proximally lighter whitish-green, line 6 with vein-dots. South-Eastern Peru. 
