188 



SYJJTOMID^. 



the terminal line expanding into irregularly dentate marks between 

 vein 2 and tornus. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui, Grodman-Salvin Coll. ; Brazil, Espiritu 

 Santo. Exjp. 38-42 millim, 



* 384. Sarosa leuce. 



DasyspMnx leuce, Maasen, Stiibel's Reise S. Am,, Lep. p. 129, pi. 4. f. 18 ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 153. 



(J . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the last with 

 greenish tinge ; legs white below ; wings hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black-brown. Fore wing with the margins broadly dark, 

 the costal and inner fasciae expanding and conjoined towards base, 

 the terminal band with sinuous inner edge. Hind wing with the 

 terminal band expanding and dentate towards tornus. 



Hab. Colombia, Paramo de Chaves. Exp. 38 millim. This 

 species is iinknown to me. 



Genus DASYSPHINX. 



Type. 



Basy sphinx, Feld. Eeis. Nov. p. 3 (1874), non descr mucescens. 



Basysphinx, Boisd. Lep. Het. i. p. 379 (1875) imicesccns. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect, reaching just beyond the 

 frons ; antennae of female serrate ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 

 woolly pile ; tibiifi with the spurs short ; build stout. Fore wing with vein 3 

 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the lower part of cell very 

 short ; veins 2 and 4 on a long stalk ; 3 and 5 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



385. Dasysphinx mucescens. 



'icescens, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f 

 § . Antenntc black, white at tips ; head, thorax, and abdomen 



Basi/sphinx mucescens, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 25 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 153. 



Fig. 88. — Basyphinx mticescens, 9 • t- 



clothed with black-brown pile which is blue-green at tips. Fore 

 wing hyaline, the veins and termen narrowly black ; the basal area 



