SPHINX IDRIEUS. 



Plate II. fig. 2. 



Order : Lepirtoptera. Section ; Crepuscularia. Family : Sphingidae, Leach. 



Genus. Sphinx, Zinn. 



Sphinx Idrieus. Corpore alisque anticis vividibus, posticis fulvis margine nigro. (Expans. Alai'. 2 unc.) 



Syn. Sphinx Idrieus, Drury, App. vol.3. (1783.) 



Sphinx Medea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. 1. ^;. 363. No. -23. (1703.) 



Habitat : Africa (Drury). " Africa a?quiaoctiali " (Fabr.). 



Upper Side. Antennas yellow brown. Head olive green, with a cream-coloured stripe running on 

 each side to the wings. Thorax and abdomen olive green ; the latter having six small cream-coloured 

 spots on each side near the anus. Anterior wings entirely olive green. Posterior orange-coloured, edged 

 with black. 



Under Side. Tongue spiral. Sides, breast, and abdomen paler green than on the upper side. 

 Wings next the shoulders dark orange, but green at the extremities. Posterior wings greenish and 

 mottled, the fringes being yellow. 



^GERIA? PLUMIPES. 



Plate II. fig. 3. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Crepuscularia? Family: JEgenidse, Steph. 



Genus. JJgeria, Fabr. ? Sesia, Latr. Sphinx, Drury. 



^GERIA? Plumipes. Alis cyaneis, abdomine fulvo-cingulato, apice barbato; pedibus fulvis, femorum posticorum 

 apice plumoso. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Sphinx plumipes, Drury, App. vol. 3. 



Habitat : Africa. 



Upper Side. Antennae black, smallest at the tips. Eyes grey and shining. Palpi black. Head 

 and thorax black. Abdomen black, with orange-coloured rings ; the extremity being very small and 

 long, and furnished with a tuft of hairs expanding like a star. 



Under Side. Tongue spiral. Head and palpi orange. Breast black. Legs orange, furnished 

 with long tibial spurs; the two hinder thighs having tufts of black hairs issuing from the tips above. 

 Abdomen orange, sides black. 



COSSUS LAOCOON. 



Plate III. fig. 1. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family; Hepialidae, Steph. 

 Genus. Cossus, Fabr. Phalaena (Bombyx), Linn. 



Cossus LAOCOOjf . Alis rufo-badus, apice obscurioribus macula media albida, nigro punctata, lunulisque subniar- 

 ginalibus pallidis. ( Expans. Alar. 6 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Phalsena (Attacus) Laocoon, J3r«7-y. Cramer, pi. \\1. Yi.'i 



Habitat : Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



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