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Domingo Sphinx
This species, which occurs in Florida and the Antilles, may be distinguished from the preceding by the darker color of the primaries and the absence of the pale color on the outer margin of the shoulder lappets, which is characteristic of E. obscura. It is also considerably larger than E. obscura.
There remains one other closely allied species in this group, to which Cramer gave the name caicus, and which occurs occasionally in Florida. The body is marked like E. ello, the fore wings are dark with longitudinal paler stripes, the secondaries are red as in E. crameri, but almost wholly without the dark border found in that species, it being replaced by a series of dark stripes running inwardly from the border toward the middle of the wing. For this species, hitherto associated with the preceding in the genus Dilophonota, Rothschild & Jordan have erected the genus Grammodia, upon structural grounds.