182 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



I think the following is the male of P. ficus. Should the con- 

 jecture be wrong, I would propose for it the name P. lyncea. 



Bright pure brown somewhat tinged with ferruginous. Thorax 

 with a purplish reflection. Palpi beneath white. Abdomen paler 

 than thorax, pale yellowish on the sides and between the basal 

 rings. Anterior wings with a paler rather broad stripe near the 

 base containing a dark brown line and indistinct lines of the same 

 hue crossing the middle of the disk ; discal spot conspicuous, fer- 

 ruginous brown, with three separated, denticulated, rather indis- 

 tinct dark brown lines crossing the middle of the nervules ; a 

 semi-oval, apical, pale luteous patch, bordered beneath by a tri- 

 angular ferruginous brown shade, with a pale purplish patch at 

 the interior angle. Posterior wiugs ochraceous, with a central 

 black band not extended to costa, and a marginal blackish band 

 tapering toward the inner angle, bordered above by a series of 

 black dots on the nervules continued as a line toward the inner 

 margin ; the inner angle covered above with niveous scales. The 

 wings beneath ochraceous, both anterior and posterior with a row 

 of sub-terminal blackish dots and the latter with a faint central 

 dark line. 



From the Smithsonian Institution. Capt. Pope's collection in 



Texas. 



CLEMENS. 



Anterior ivings rather narrower than 'the preceding, more pointed 

 at the tip and the hind border more distinctly sinuous. 



2. P. inornata Clemens. Sphinx ficus Cramer. 



Dull greenish-brown or dark reddish-brown. Abdomen rusty 

 brown on the sides. Anterior wings in the 9 with an olivaceous 

 hue toward the base and somewhat purplish posteriorly. A pale 

 brownish nearly semi-circular patch on the middle of costa extend- 

 ing beneath to the medio-superior and behind to the post-apical 

 nervule ; this is bordered by a broad umber brown band, which 

 sends off to the middle of inner margin a short band of the same 

 hue. There is only one distinct denticulated umber-brown line 

 crossing the middle of the nervules, and is sometimes obsolete. A 

 semi-oval, apical pale brown patch, tinged with dull greenish and 

 bordered beneath by a triangular umber-brown shade. Posterior 

 wings nearly concolorous umber-brown, or deep reddish-brown, 



