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937. Empyreuma lichas. 



liclia.% Fabr. Spec. las. ii. App. p. 505 (1781). 

 Splmix sanguinosa, Martyn, Psyche, pi, 26. ff. 18, 19 (ined.) ; Kirbv, Cat 

 Het. p. 121. ^ 



Head and thorax black-brown ; antennae bluish, the tips orange : 

 teguloe, shoulders, patagia, and coxse with small white spots ; 

 abdomen metallic greenish, with dorsal white spots on first two 



Fig. 223. — Eni-pyrcuma lichas, (^ . \. 



segments, two lateral series, and two ventral white spots on first 

 segment. Fore wing crimson-red, suffused with brownish except 

 the costal fascia and base of inner margin. Hind wing crimson, 

 the cilia blackish. 



Hah. JikiTi {Tiveedie) ; Cuba; Honduras. Exp. -iA^-^iS miViim. 



938. Empyreuma pugione. 



Sphinx pug ion e, Linu. Syst. Nat. i. 2. p. 807 (17()7); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 Sphinx lichas, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 45. B (1775). 



Head and thorax blue-black ; antennae fulvous at tips ; abdomen 

 dull metallic bluish, with subdorsal white patches on 3rd and 4th 

 segments. Fore wing crimson suffused with black, the veins and 

 terminal area black Avith a slight bluish gloss. Hind wing crimson, 

 with terminal black band. 



Hab. Jamaica (Oosse). Exp. 50 millim. 



Egg. Pale yellow, spherical with flattened base, with fine pen- 

 tagonal reticulations. 



Larva pale yellow-brown, with subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of small fuscous-edged white spots ; the somites bearing 

 subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral warts with radiating hairs, the 2nd 

 to terminal somites also with paired dorsal warts and small warts 

 above the sublateral series ; the 2nd somite with long forwardly- 

 directed hair on subdorsal warts, the subterminal segment with 

 backwardly directed hair. Food-plant., Oleander. 



Genus LEUCOPLEURA, nov. 



Type, L. cucadma. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to vertex of head, the 

 3rd joint short and porrect ; antenni^ bipectinate, with moderate branches 

 dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle ; tibiae with the spurs short, Fore 



