1865.] 41 



AELLOPOS, Iliibner. 

 Aellopos Titan. 



Sphinx Titan Cramer, II. PI. 142, fig. F. (1779.) 



Aellopos Titan Hubner, Verz. Schm. 1407, p. 131,. (1816.) 



Macroglossum anmdosum Swains, Zool. 111. pi. 132. (1822.) 



Macroglossa Titan Burm., Syst. "Verz. Sph. Braz. p. 17. (1856.) 



Macroglossa Titan H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 56. (1865.) 

 Dull blackish, with a slight olivaceous tinge ; discal spot black, sub- 

 obsolete. A median, straight, semi-transparent, whitish band, closely 

 followed by a second much reduced. A somewhat arcuated, similarly 

 colored band, formed of a double series of semi-vitreous lunulated spots, 

 is continued from costa to second median nervule, beyond which it is 

 obsolete, but very distinctly continued on the under surface, — -the lunu- 

 lated spots increasing in size to the interspace above internal margin. 

 Terminal space with a paler, somewhat purplish reflection. Under sur- 

 face dark-brownish ; the whitish markings of the upper surface dis- 

 tinctly reproduced. 



Posterior wings blackish, paler at base, shaded with yellowish along 

 costa, — medially the yellow hairs, especially in the female, extend across 

 the costal half of the wing forming an obsolete band. Beneath brown. , 



with two median, parallel, contiguous, distinct, darker shade bands, 

 largely shaded with white at base and along internal margin. 



Head, and thoracic region above, dull-brownish with a slight olivaee- | 



ous tinge. Abdomen olivaceous with the third abdominal segment : 



white above ; fourth segment with a large, dark brownish, lateral shade, 

 which on fifth is much reduced, but obtains on the sixth entirely 

 across the segment above. Anal hairs brown, olivaceous centrally. , 



Beneath, the palpi are whitish ; the thoracic region and legs clothed 

 with olivaceous whitish hair. A series of small white lateral dots at 

 the lower margin of abdominal segments; lateral fringes interrupted ' 



with white. Two specimens, S ?. Exp. S and 9 2.o0 inch. Length 

 of body 1.40 inch. \ 



Habitat. —Cnha, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad. ! 



Number 121 Poeys MSS. Catalogue. 



Since the present species has been confounded with the following 

 by Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens, I omit the citation of the works of , 



these writers in the synonymy of both species. Under the descriptive i 



phrase, '' Var. abJominc x!ne fascia alba," Prof. Burmeister places 

 Aellopos Fadus Hubner, (Sphinx Fadus Cram. 61, C.) as identical with ; 



the present species. I have not seen the species from Surinam any 

 more than the Professor, but, judging from Cramer's figure, I should,^-— —•^ 

 certainly consider it to be a distinct species. /^ vl— ^ I 



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