186 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



The third article of palpi a small terminal hook; anterior wings 

 slightly ivavy. 



3. M. antaeus . Merian, f. 2. Sphinx hydraspus Cramer, f.' A. (?) 



Sphinx medor Cramer, f. A. Sphinx jatrophx Fabr. 18 ; Mant. Ins. 

 II. 94, 21 ; Ent. Syst. Ill, 1, 362, 22. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 5, 2376, 

 63. Cocytius jatrophas Hubner. Amphonyx duponchel Poey. 



Palpi blackish-brown, beneath yellowish-white. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen, blackish-brown, intermixed with gray atoms ; te- 

 gulae with a black streak, edged beneath with whitish ; abdomen 

 with a dorsal row of black spots, and three large yellow spots on 

 each side at the base edged with black, and black spots from the 

 last to the tip of abdomen. Anterior wings blackish-brown, 

 sprinkled with grayish scales ; a grayish spot at the base, with a 

 double, angular, black line crossing the middle of disk to the upper 

 third of inner margin, and two or three serrated lines of the same 

 hue on the middle of the nervules, and a subterminal black line 

 curving from the costa, near the origin of post-apical to near the 

 inner angle, and edged anteriorly rather broadly with brownish-gray ; 

 black circlets on the ends of posterior nervules, and a broad black 

 apical streak j black streaks in medio-central and posterior inter- 

 spaces, and two discal whitish spots, one near the sub-median 

 nerve, and the other near the sub-costal. Posterior wings trans- 

 parent in the middle, with black nervules and a broad, terminal, 

 black border, with indistinct, grayish spots above inner angle ; yel- 

 low at the base. Beneath, the body is whitish, with abdominal 

 blackish spots ; and the wings yellowish toward the base. 



South America ; Mexico ; West Indies. 



CLEMENS. 



4. M. cluentius Cramer, 1, 124, pi. 78, f. B. 



Grayish-black, testaceous beneath ; antennae testaceous. Tho- 

 rax fawn-color on the sides. Abdomen black, with a broad cine- 

 reous stripe, and several luteous spots on the sides. Anterior 

 wings with numerous black spots or marks on the costa and inner 

 margin, and semicircular black marks on the ends of the nervules, 

 with a subapical streak and stripe behind, fawn-color. Posterior 

 wings black, with an interrupted median stripe, and the interior 

 margin luteous. 



South America ; West Indies. 



CLEMENS. 



