306 SYNTOMID^. 



676. Syntomeida melanthus. 



Sphmx melanthus. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 248. C (1779); Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 42 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 122. 

 Sphinx ni/cteus, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 32.5. F (17S0). 

 Euchromia apricans, Wlk. i. 224 (1854). 

 Syntomeida. aUnfasciata , Butl. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 366 (1876) ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 42 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. 



Black shot with dull brouze-green ; antennoe white at tips ; 

 tegulse, shoulders, and vertex of thorax with orange patches ; sides 

 of thorax and cox^ with whitish patches ; abdomen with white 

 band at base tinged with orange on dorsum, and pale or deep 

 orange baiids on the other segments ; the ventral valve of male 

 edged with yellowish ; three white bands on medial segments. Fore 



Fig. 138. — Syntomeida melanthus, (^. \. 



wing with pale yellow quadrate spots below base of cell and in and 

 below middle of cell ; a series of four spots beyond the cell. Hind 

 wing with hyaline white streaks in and below base of cell, and two 

 pale yellow spots beyond the cell. 



Ab. 1. nyctevs : with the yellow spots more or less reduced, some- 

 times absent except for the spot below cell and speck in cell. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing -with the two yellow spots below the cell 

 conjoined. 



Ab. 3. albifasciata : with the bands of abdomen whitish. 



Hab. Mexico; Gtjatemala ; Costa Rica; Nicaeagua, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Honduras, type albifasciata; Venezuela, type apricans. 

 Eoep. 50 millim. 



677. S3nitoineicla syntomoides. 



Gkaicopis syntomoides, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 16. f. 4 (1836); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. 

 Glaucopis saulcyi, Guer. Icon. E. Anim., Ins. p. 502 (1844); Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 43 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. 

 Calonota niveifascia, Wlk. vii. 1628 (1856). 

 Glaucopis vidua, Menetr. Cat. Lep. Petersb. ii. p. 141, pi. 14. f. 6 (1857); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 174. 

 Glaucopis vidua, var. spiracula, Menetr. Cat. Lep. Petersb. ii. p. 142. 

 Hippola wrigMi, Gundl. Ent. Cuba, Lep. p. 243 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 903. 

 Syntomeida angasi, Druce, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 321, pi. 30. f. 5. 



Black shot with greenish blue ; antennae white at tips ; sides of 

 thorax and coxse with white patches ; abdomen either with a 

 complete basal white band, sometimes with traces of another beyond 

 it, or with its medial portion reduced to a spot, or absent, or the 



