220 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Var. jamaicensis Dru., Ex. ii. 43, pi. 25, figs. 2, 3, Sphinx ; Westw., ed. ii, 47, 

 pi. 25, figs. 2, 3, Smerinthus; Wlk., C. B. M. Lep. Het. viii. 247, pr. syu. ; 

 G. & E., Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. 160, Smerinthus (an sp. dist. ?) ; Lint., Eut. 

 Cout. ii. 123, pr. syn. ; Strk., Lep. Rhop. et Het. i. 57, pi. vii, fig. 8, Smerin- 

 thus ; Grt., Hawk Moths 36, pr. var. 



ocellatus Fabr., Eut. Syst. iii. 1. 355, Sphinx; Gmel., ed. Linn. S. N. 2371, 

 Sphbix ; Westw., ed. Dru. ii. 47, Jamaicensis. 



Var. tripartitus Grt., Hawk Moths 36. 



Head and thorax bright, somewhat corneous gray ; palpi more reddish ; dor- 

 sum of thorax rich deep brown, except at extreme base; the dark patch occupy- 

 ing the entire space betweeu the patagite. Abdomen rather darker, more fuscous, 

 with an indefinite, interrupted dorsal line and a series of still more indefinite, 

 often obsolete lateral pale spots. Primaries gray, with a very variably marked 

 rosy tinge. Basal space palest, with a pale transverse line marked by two darker 

 shades through its outer third. From the basal third of costa a dark brown line 

 runs outwardly oblique to vein two (more or less dentate on the median vein), 

 then forming an angle that may be either acute, right or obtuse, iuwardly ob- 

 tuse, inwardly oblique to the internal margin at basal third. This line is very 

 variable in its course, but is always outwardly angulate a little below its middle. 

 At outer third of wing is a transverse shade band that may be either rigid, sin- 

 uate, or simply with an outward curve. Beyond this band the wing is darker to 

 a series of three pale alternated by two darker, sinuate, transverse lines. The 

 middle pale line may be wanting, in which case there seem two parallel pale 

 lines with a broad dark shade between. Through the subterminal space is a very 

 variably distinct paler shade, dilating some at anal angle, where it is preceded 

 by a darker patch; and margining inwardly, a very distinct dark, apical lunule. 

 A narrow luuulate patch, discal spot margined with brown. A deep brown shade 

 from the middle of the augulated line at basal third, in the space between veins 

 two and three and extending through and filling that interspace to the series of 

 outer lines. In dark specimens this is not prominent, as the whole of the me- 

 dian space below the cell then becomes of a nearly equal tint ; in pale specimens, 

 on the contrary, it is very distinct. Secondaries rosy red, with costal and outer 

 margin rather broadly buft" or yellowish ; a large ocellus near to and connected 

 with anal angle with a blue centre which is divided into two by a central trans- 

 verse band. Beneath, primaries rosy to the oblique shade at outer third, then 

 darker, with the macnlation of primaries much more distinctly reproduced. 

 Secondaries with a linear white discal spot, a broad brown discal band ; another 

 near outer margin, staining the anal angle; between these brown bands is a 

 series of three pale and two darker lines similar to those of the primaries Ex- 

 pands 2 — 2.75 inches ; 50—69 mm. 



Uab. — Canada to Virginia; Illinois, Kentucky, Jamaica? 



A somewhat variable species, especially in the form of the ocellus 

 of secondaries. Drury described his species from Jamaica, and fig- 

 ures it with a single ocellus. No one has since received the species 

 from that locality and there was probal)ly an error. Mr. Lintner, 

 in a brood of gemlnatus, obtained a single female, which in all re- 



