EUCEEEON. 485 



Genus EUCEREON. 



Type. 



Eucercon, Hiibn. Verz. p. 12'-i ( 1827) urchias. 



EritJiales, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba, p. 16 (1832) guacolda. 



Theages,lV\k. in. 121 (1855) Imcophma. 



Acri'dopsis, Bull. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 418 (1876) (obohasis. 



Galethalca, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 424 (1876) pica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptui-ned to vei-tex of head, the 3rd joint 

 moderate ; antennre bipectinate, the branches dilated at extremity and ending 

 in bristles ; tibi;c with the spurs moderate. Abdomen clothed with rough hair 

 on dorsum and with lateral dorsal tufts. Fore wing with vein 3 from near or 

 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from or from just below upper angle ; 

 7,8,9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell; 3, 4 shortly stalked or from cell ; 5 from or from just above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 usually present as an aborted fragment not 

 reaching costa. 



Sect. I. (Eucereon). Abdouien of male with lateral tufts of long hair from basal 

 segment ; hind wing with the tornus lobed and thickly scaled. 



1072. Eucereoii arcliias. 



Sphinx arckias, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. pi. 14. ff. 6-10 (1790) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 200. 



(5 , Pale brown tinged with fuscous ; vertex of head with two 

 oraDge and crimson spots ; coxae crimson ; abdomen crimson, the 

 1st segment brown, the terminal segment blackish, lateral fuscous 

 fitripes, the ventral surface yellow except extremity. Fore wing 



greyish ; the basal area with 

 fuscous streaks in the inter- 

 spaces ; a curved antemedial 

 V^^>«?^^;^^ /^^^^y ^^ series of three striae below 



"^- " - ""-^^ ^= — -^ ^ the cell ; a round spot in cell, 



~^ i^^^ O^ with oblique striga from costa 



%' l-Jl^ \m above it ; two spots in end 



of cell, the lower sometimes 

 Y\g.'i<a^.—Eucereonarchias,S- '• connected with the medial 



spot ; a series of spots beyond 

 the ceU from costa to vein 2, with a dentate line just beyond them 

 strongly incurved below vein 2 and with dentate marks beyoud it 

 between vein 4 and costa ; a series of marginal lunulate marks. 

 Hind wing fuscous, with the inner area yellow. 



5 as figured by StoU has the hindAving pale, with dark terminal 

 band and no yellow on inner area. 



Hah. Surinam, Paramaribo {Ellacomhe), 1 S • Exp. 86 millim. 

 Larva pale yellow, with tufts of long white hair on anterior and 

 posterior somites, the thoracic and two last somites with dorsal 

 black spots. Food plant. Orange. Cocoon greyish. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male with a fold on inner area containing rough scales. 



1073. Eiicereon minntum. 



Eucereon mimitum, Drucc, Eiol. Centr.-Am., Hot. i. p. 87 (1884) ; id. ii. 



p. 363, pi. 73. f. 7. 

 Eucereon drucci, Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 201 (1892). 





