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XYLOPHANES. By Dr. M. Dbaitdt. 
dolius. 
elara 
isaon. 
hydrata. 
robinsoni. 
josephinae. 
damocrita. 
maculator. 
ivolfi. 
aglaor. 
libya. 
X. dolius R. <fc J. Body as in fosteri, shape of fore wing as in Tiyclrata. Fore wing brownish, dusted with 
olive; lines as in hydrata, the 4th fine, deeper brown in the upper half, the 5th is only indicated and ends in 
a brown apical dot; the apical part of the marginal area is lighter than the rest of the wing; stigma large and 
black. Hindwing blackish-brown with a narrow reddish-yellow postmedian band which is shaded with brown 
towards the costal margin. Length of fore wing; 31 mm. Zamora, Ecuador. 
X. elara Drc. (= elicius Mschlr., perviridis Rothsch .) (98 Fc). Body and wings above yellowish olive 
green, more yellowish ochre beneath, ventral side whitish grey; abdomen above with a fine olive green median 
line. Forewing with a black stigma; lines straight, 1—3 feeble, 4 much thicker, but narrower than in hydrata, 
5 and 6 quite indistinct; distal margin deeply concave below the apex. Base of hindwing black. Guiana and 
Venezuela to Paraguay. 
X. isaon B.sd. (= olivacea Rothsch.) (98 F c). Thorax with a grey median line continued across the 
abdomen by two bands distantly separating analwards, each of them bordered dorsally by a row of dots. The 
1st and 2nd lines of the forewing are confluent forming a strong band, the 3rd thin, the 4th very thick, the 
space between the 2nd and 4th lighter. Hindwing with a faded reddish postmedian band. Brazil (Sao Paulo 
to Espiritu Santo). 
X. hydrata R. <£• J. (= spec. A. Bonningh.) (98 F cl) is very similar to elara ; fresh specimens green, 
but they turn very quickly yellowish ochre or even reddish-brown; thorax always without light stripes, ab¬ 
domen with a fine dorsal line and, on each side of it, a somewhat broader dark line. Fore wing with a black 
stigma, 7 oblique lines behind it, the 4th being the strongest, the 6th broad though feeble, the 7th intensified 
by fine vein-dots; apex pointed and produced. Hindwing blackish-brown at the base, with a brownish post¬ 
median band which is redder anally. Brazil. Clark considered elara and hydrata to be one species, hydrata 
being the redder southern form; but Gehlen examined the genital organs and found them to be different. There 
are no transitions whatever between the two species' according to Gehlen to whom we are indebted for 
supplying the two specimens figured. 
X. robinsoni Grt. (= curvata Btlr., falco H.-Sch .) (98 F d) is a somewhat smaller species; forewing tinted 
olive, lines 1—3 together form a dark band feebly S-curved and not reaching the apex; 4 is very fine, 5 somewhat 
stronger, terminating together with 6 into the apex, all the lines except 1—3 dying away towards the inner 
margin. Hindwing black, the light postmedian band interrupted by the black veins. Abdomen above brown 
with a fine darker med.ian line, sharply bordered laterally with a lighter colour. Only from Cuba. 
X. josephinae Clark resembles damocrita in the colouring so much that it could be easily confounded, 
but it is very different; shape of wings longer, lines of forewing straighter; the shadowy postcellular spot is less 
distinct; the first line proceeding 5 mm behind the base is the strongest, the next 3 lines are fine and light, line 5 
is broader and extends from the centre of the inner margin to the apex, the next 3 lines are less distinct again; 
the colours do not contrast so much as in damocrita, the band of the hindwing is more remote from the margin 
at the costal margin. Length of fore wing; 40 mm. Cayuga, Guatemala. 
X. damocrita Drc. (98 F d) is easily discernible from the preceding species by the thick blackish shadowy 
spot behind the stigma; lines 1—3 feeble, not reaching the costal margin; 4 very strong, 5 close behind it, but 
obliterated below 4 and replaced by rusty reddish spots. Hindwing blackish-brown with a dark reddish-yellow 
postmedian band. Under surface rusty red with a sharply defined greyish-brown marginal band entering in a 
pointed dent between 4 and 5. Abdomen laterally, between the 3rd and 7th segments, with a rusty red stripe 
mixed with yellow. Mexico. 
X. maculator Bsd. (98 F d) is larger than the preceding species, otherwise similar, but at once discernible 
by a black stripe of the tegulae extending across the head to the palpi. Abdomen with 3 fine dark longitudinal 
lines and on each side a broad one; forewing very similar to that of damocrita ; inner margin blackened between 
the lines 4 and 6. Band of hindwing interrupted by veins. The nomenclatural form from Venezuela and 
Colombia. — In wolfi Drc. the longitudinal lines on the abdomen as well as the spot behind the stigma of the 
forewing are obliterated; there are 4 lines instead of 3 before the strong line, the first being somewhat dentate. 
Hindwing with a broader and a less reddish band which is not dentate. Ecuador and Peru. 
X. aglaor Bsd. (= spec. A. Bonningh.) (98 F d). Brownish olive, thorax above mixed with grey, 
without the dark strip? of the tegulae of maculator; abdomen with a fine olive median line, somewhat darker 
subdorsally and below it on each side with a reddish ochreous longitudinal stripe. Forewing olive grey, lighter 
at the cell-end and before the apex; the first 6 lines are close beside each other, the 5th being the strongest, 
besides two other lines behind them parallel to the margin. Hindwing black with a reddish-yellow, not dentate 
band. Brazil (Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janeiro). 
X. Hbya Drc. (= aglaor Schs ., neoptolemus Bsd.) (98 F e). This species and the following loelia are very 
closely allied and often difficult to distinguish. Forewing brown, the first 4 lines arranged in 2 pairs, feeble, 
5 stronger, often marked by vein-dots; a black dot at the cell-end, another one also before the apex at the 
costal margin. Hindwing black with a reddish band which is not broader than the black margin. Under 
