ILLUSTRATIONS 



TYPE SPECIMENS 



LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



SPHINGIIXE. 



CH^ROCAMPA, Duponchel. 



Chaerocampa crotonis. (Plate XV. fig. 1.) 

 Chserocampa crotonis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. viii. p. 133. n. 10 (1856). 



Body and primaries sap-green : head, collar, and tegulae margined with sordid whitish : 

 abdomen with a central longitudinal whitish streak ; a large black spot on each side of the 

 basal segment; remaining segments dull golden at the sides, interrupted by a tapering lateral 

 brown streak : primaries above with a black spot on lower discocellular veinlet ; seven 

 oblique dark streaks running from internal margin to apex, the first and fourth from the 

 inside being widest and darkest : secondaries black, with a discal series of pale yellow spots. 

 Undersurfaee tawny, speckled and barred with black and grey ; primaries with blackish .basal 

 area. Expanse of wings 4 inches 2 lines. 



Venezuela (Dyson). 



DARAPSA, Walker. 



Darapsa rhodocera. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 



Darapsa rhodocera, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ret. viii. p. 184. n. 4 (1850). 



Greyish mouse-colour, clouded with bronzy brown ; the collar and outer margin of 

 tegulse bordered with whitish : abdomen rather pale at the sides, with a black spot on each 

 side of the basal segment ; antenna; rosy : primaries with a small pale-bordered grey spot on 

 lower discocellular ; a partially brown-edged, whitish, sericeous, oblique discal streak, beyond 



