292 LEPIDOPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



small spurs. Wings moderately long, rather broad ; fore wings 

 with three inferior veins. 



1. D. vinosa Drury. Ex. lus. I, 47, pi. 23, f. 4. Sphinx vinosa Druiy 

 App. 4. 



Wings grayish-diaphanous. Fore wings with the anterior and 

 posterior margin reddish-yellow, with a large external spot, white 

 in the middle margined with black. Hind wings, /em., with a 

 subraarginal reddish-yellow band. 



Jamaica. 



Walker. 



Group Lauroii. 



Lauron Walker, 333. 



Body cylindrical, linear, slender, rather long. Palpi straight, 

 porrcct, as long as the head ; third joint acuminated, nearly one- 

 third of the length of the second. Antennas closely pectinated ; 

 branches of moderate length in the male, very short in the female. 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings in both sexes 

 or not extending beyond them in the females of some species. 

 Legs very slender; fore tibiiii not dentated ; hind tibia? with two 

 very minute apical spurs. Wings long, rather broad, more or less 

 hyaline ; three inferior veins. 



1. D. ergolis Walker, 335. 



Black. Thorax and the costa of the fore wings along the basal 

 half and a short, oblique band, red. Fore wings with the disk at 

 the base subhyaline, an abbreviated, oblique band near the tip, 

 white. , 



Jamaica. 



Walkek. 



CHRYSAUG-E Hubner. 



Group FlaTinia. 

 Flavinia Walker, 369. 



Body slender, of moderate length, nearly linear and cylindrical. 

 Palpi porrect, shorter than the head ; third joint acuminated, less 

 than one-third of the length of the second. Antennre of the male 

 deeply pectinated, of the female simple. Abdomen hardly extend- 



