110 AMATIDjE. 



*3S5y. Dasysphinx volatilis. (Plate V. fig. 2(3.) 



Dasysphinx volatilis, Schaus, A.M.N. H. (8) vi. p. 180 (1910). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; tegulae with white patches ; 

 femero-tibial joints and 1st joint of tarsi white ; abdomen dorsal ly 

 tinged with bine, subdorsal and snblateral series of small vvdiite spots 

 except on basal segments. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black, the hyaline area from near base to middle suffused 

 with orange-red ; a white point in base of cell ; a black discoidal 

 lunule. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black, the veins 

 tinged with orange ; a black discoidal point. Underside of fore 

 wing with some white at base and on inner area to near tornus ; 

 hind wing with the costa white towards base, then black, the upper 

 part of cell orange. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Mt. Poas (Schaus), typef 6 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 44 millim. 



*385 h. Dasysphinx cccendeni. 



Gyrrmelia ockendeni, Roths. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 510 (1910), & Nov. 

 Zool. xx. p. 471, pi. xiv. f. 16. 



9 . Head and thorax black-brown ; legs slightly glossed with 

 blue, the fore coxa? and femora bright crimson on outer side ; 

 abdomen black-brown slightly glossed with blue, the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments with small subdorsal crimson spots, sublateral white 

 patches on 3rd and 4th segments, the ventral surface with the 

 extremity bright crimson. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and mar- 

 gins black-brown ; the basal area black-brown ; a black discoidal 

 bar ; the terminal band expanding slightly towards apex. Hind 

 wing hyaline, the veins, margins, basal and inner areas black-brown. 



Hab. Peru, Carabaya, S. Domingo (Ockenden), type f 2 ni 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim. 



*38o i, Dasysphinx tarsipuncta. (Plate Y. fig. 27.) 



Gymnelia tarsipuncta, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 184 (1905). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, frons with white lateral 

 lines ; antennae white at tips ; shoulders with crimson patches ; 

 femora, tibia?, and hind tarsi at extremities with white points ; 

 abdomen with large dorsal and lateral crimson patch at base. Fore 

 wing hyaline ; the basal area to near middle black, slightly 

 expanding below the cell ; the veins black ; a large black discoidal 

 lunule ; the narrow terminal band expanding into a large apical 

 patch and slightly at submedian fold. Hind wing black with large 

 elliptical hyaline patch beyond the cell between vein 7 and sul>- 

 median fold, tbe veins black. 



Hob. Brazil, Sta, Catherina, type f $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 48 millim. 



