A. R. Grote's Notes on the Zygscnidse. of Cuba. 299 



Legs, blackish cyaneous; hind tarsi fringed with longer concolorous 

 hair, which extends above on the base of the tibiic, these latter well 

 developed. Exp. % , 0.95 inch. Length of body, 0.40 inch. 



Habitat— Guba ? (Poey). Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 



Number 594, Pocy's MS. Catalogue. 



This species is very much smaller than the preceding, and I consider 

 it generically distinct, but it resembles it closely in ornamentation, and 

 it would naturally be referred to Hippola in the present state of our 

 knowledge of these interesting insects. 



EMPYEETJMA. Hubner. 

 Empyreuma pugione. 



J^mpi/reiana pvgione. Hubner, Zutr. 1 Hurul. p. 12, Xo. 21, figs. 41 — -42. (1818.) 

 Empyreuma lichas, H-S., Coir. Blatt, No. 8 p. 115. (August, 18(56.) 



I purposely avoid giving further synonymy, owing to the fact that, 

 while I see there are two closely allied species of Empyreuma, I have 

 only one before me which I regard as intended by Hubner as above 

 cited. 



The Latin diagnosis given by .Air. Walker to " Euchromia pugione." 

 C. B. M. Lep. Het. Part 1, p. 211, 1854, agrees better with the Cu- 

 ban specimens than that of "Euchromia lichas ;" yet to this latter a 

 specimen from Cuba is cited. The antennal tips in the Cuban speci- 

 mens are brownish fulvous, ("autennae apice fulvse," Walk.,') a charac- 

 ter not indicated by Hubner, whose specimens came from St. Thomas; 

 otherwise my specimens agree too nearly for me to doubt this determi- 

 nation. Mr. Walker has evidently separated two species and after- 

 wards (C. B. M. Lep. Het. Part 7, p. 1622) gives the additional ha- 

 bitat of ''Jamaica" for specimens of "Empyreuma pugione, Walk.," 

 although at first giving only "South America" for "Euchromia pugi- 

 one, Walk." with the Latin diagnosis of which species my Cuban spe- 

 cimens agree. Herrich-Schaeffcr determines the Cuban species as 

 •• Empyreuma lichas, Cramer," while Cramer's miserable figure (PI. 

 45. f. J}.) is quite useless in the matter of closely allied species; the 

 specific name of lichas, is first used by Cramer for a species from St. 

 Thomas. Fabricius gives Cramer's Sphinx lichas, as a synonym of 

 Zygsena pugione, Fair., {Sphinx pugione, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2, 807, 45) 

 and his diagnosis (Sp. Ins. Vol. II, p. 163, No. 33) agrees entirely 

 with the Cuban specimens. Fabricius afterwards separates two spe- 

 cies in his " Mantissa," giving no authority for his Zygaena lichas, 

 Fabr., (p. 104, No. 34) a name which is now used for a species which 

 is not Cramer's Sphinx Helms, 45, B, but is, from the similarity of the 

 diagnosis, Euchromia lichas, Walk. 1 am led to conjecture that Mr. 



