422 STNTOMID^. 



with some yellow scales above frons ; tegulae pale yellow ; patagia 

 and thorax dusky browu ; pectus with yellow spots ; legs dark 

 brown, the coxae yellow, tarsi dusky ochreous ; abdomen with the 

 basal segment white, with yellow patches on lateral tubercles ; 

 2nd and 3rd segments dark brown, with dorsal and lateral yellow 

 spots ; terminal segments paler brown. Fore wing fulvous brown. 

 Hind wing ochreous yellow, vnth. ill-defined dark terminal band 

 narrowing from apex. 



Rah. Cuba, Coll. Staudinger. E.iy. 35-40 millira. 



936. Horama pretus. 



Sphinx pretus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 175. E, F (1777); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 130. 

 ZygcBna eunolphus, Fahr. Spec. Ins. ii., App. p. 505 (1787). 

 Mastyqoccra vespina, Harris, Am. Journ. Sci. xxxvi. p. 315 (1839) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 131. 



Pale reddish brown ; head and dilated part of antennte blackish ; 

 teguloe yellowish white ; pectus blackish with patches of white ; 

 palpi below and coxae white ; legs with blackish bands at end of 



Fig. 222. — Horama pretus, c? . !• 



femora and tibiae ; abdomen with the 1st segment yellowish white^ 

 followed by blackish and whitish ventral and lateral bands ; the 

 extremity blackish. Hind wing with slight fuscous suffusion, the 

 costal area yellowish. 



Hah. St."^ Thomas, 1 $ ; Venezuela ; 2 J without locality, 

 Exj). 33 millim. 



Genus EMPYREUMA. 



Type 



Empyreuma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 120(1827) pugione. 



Proboscis fullj- dcTeloped ; palpi upturned ; frons hairy ; antennae bipeetinate, 

 with moderate branches; tliorax clothed with -n-oolly hair; tibiae with the 

 spurs short ; abdomen with lateral tufts on terminal segments, those on anal 

 segment long. Fore wing long and narrow ; vein 3 from well before angle of 

 ceU; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 1] from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell very long; veins 2 and 4 from angle ; 3 from 2 just 

 before termen ; 5 curved from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



A. Abdomen with dorsal white spots on first two segments and 



two lateral series lichas. 



B. Abdomen with subdorsal white patches on 3rd and 4th 



segments pugione. 



