•^<^'^> HYNTOMin.K. 



n7<5. Syntomeida melanthiis. 



sphinx meianthii.s ('mm. 1'hi.. K\t)t. m. i.l. l.'4> C (177'.»); Druco. Biol, 



CVntr.-Ain.. H«t. i. p. 42; Kirhv. (.'at. Ilrt. p. TJl'. 

 Sphinx Tn/c(ritji, 8(ull. rnp. Kxol. iv. pi. .TJ'i. F (17H)). 

 F.iichrotnia aprican*, Wlk. i. 1^JI (lHr>4). 

 St/v/nmtitia athifafciata, lUitl. Jourii. Linn. SVk*., Z<m»1. xii. p. .'MUJ (IRTG); 



Driir... Hiol. tVntr.-Ani.. Ilct. i. p. 42; Kirby. Cat. Iltt. p. VlW. 



IWinV sliot with (lull ])n)ii/,o-j?rt'en ; ai»t<nnu' white ut tips; 

 tcf;ula\ >h«mhhrs, and vertex <»f th<»rax with orange jmtches ; HidcM 

 of thorax and ro\ie with whiti.nh juitehe.H ; alxloiueii with white 

 band at hise tinpd with oranj^e t.n dorsuii), and pale or deep 

 oranpe IkhkIh <>ii the t.tlier he;,'nientM ; the ventral valve of male 

 edged with }elln\\ish : three wljite liands on medial pogmonta. I'oro 



Fip. I.'i8. — Syntomeida mr/anthuji, cf, \. 



winp with ])ale yellow qundmto sjKit.s Ik'Iow Imsc of roll and in and 

 below middle of c«ll ; a forios of foiir HpotH lievnnd the cell. Hind 

 winp with hyaline white streakn in and below base of eell, and two 

 pale ytllow sjxitH b«yond the eell. 



Ab. 1. ntjcttus : with the yellow 8|M)t« more or leHS redtired, Homc- 

 timcH absent exeept for the npot Udow cell and sj^eck in cell. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the two ytdlow spotn lieiow the cell 

 eonjoine<l. 



Ab. W. (ilhifitgnata : with the bandx of abdomen whitinh. 



I!af>. MfXICO; (fl'ATKMAf.A : (V>8TA \\.\C K \ XlCAHAOlA, (fOflman- 



Salvin Coll. ; IIondi his, typo alfnfa^ciatu ; Vlnezukla, tyj)0 ajn-irmm. 

 Kvp. 50 millini. 



• •77. Syntomeida syiitomoides. 



Giaiicopi^ sifntomotd(s, BoikI. ^yycc. Oin. Ixp. i. pi. 10. f 4 (1836)* 



Kirby, Cat. Het.p. 123. v /. 



GlaucofHfi saulcyi, KiwCt. Icon. R. Anim., ln». p. lArl (1K44;; Drure, Biol. 



Centr.-Anv. Het. i. p. 4.'5 ; Kirbv. Cat. Hc(, p. 12.'{. 

 Calotwta tiivrifa.'cia, Wlk. rii. \e,2y (l.S'»r)). 

 Glaucopis vidua, Mint'tr. Cat. Ldp. Pttcrsb. ii. j). Ill, j.l. 14. f (Xi^yJ)- 



Kirby. Cat. Hot. p. 174. /• 



GUxucopif vidua, rar. f^uracula, Mem'tr. Cat. L«^-p. Peterab. ii. p. 142. 

 Hippola writ/hfi, Gundl. Ent. Cuba, Lep. p. 243 n8-*<l); Kirbv, Cat Het 



p. IKXi. 

 St/ntomfida ont/asi, Druce, P. Z. S. 18^, p. 321. pi. 30. f. 5. 



Black shot with jn'cenish blue ; antennaj white at tij>8 ; side.^ of 

 thorax and coxa; with white jiatches : abdomen either with a 

 comjdete basal white band, .sometimes with traces of ajiothcr beyond 

 it, or with its medial i»ortion reduced to a spot, or absent, or the 



