208 



ARCTIAD^, 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the tornus produced to a pointed lobe, the 

 inner area with fold and tuft of hair. 



1611. Belemnia eryx.. 



Zycimui eryx, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 552 (1775) ; Hiibn. Samml. ex. Sehmett. i. ; 



Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 170. 

 Sphinx inaurata, Cram. Pap. Esot. ii. pi. 140, E, F (1777) ; nee Sulz-. 

 Belemnia crameri, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 339 (1875) ; Kirby,. Cat. 



Het. p. 170. 

 Belemnia obscura, Druce, A. M.. N. H. (7) iii p. 232 (1899). 



J . Black ; head, thorax, and legs largely spotted and marked 

 with golden green ; abdomen with golden green maculate dorsal 

 fascia, silvery green lateral patches on 1st three segments followed 

 bj brilliant blue patches on the next three, ventral surface with 



Fig. 119. — Belemnia eryx, (^ . |. 



silvery green patches on 1st two segments, the edge of 2nd, the 3rd, 

 4th, 5th, and 6th segments crimson. Fore wing with the basal 

 half golden green, the veins and folds on it streaked with black, its 

 outer edge rather oblique ; a postmedial crimson band from below 

 cot^ta to vein 3, expanding and rounded at lower extremity. Hind 

 wing with slight green streaks below costa and on inner margin. 

 Underside of fore wing with silvery blue-green fascise in and below 

 cell and spot at upper angle ; hind wing with the basal area blue- 

 green except on inner margin, its outer edge irregular ; spots at 

 angle of cell. 



Ab. 1. crameri. Fore wing with the postmedial crimson band 

 more or less reduced. 



The type of ohscura has a spur from upperside of vein 4 of hind 

 wing, ? vein 5. 



Hah. Brazil, 3 (S , Sta. Catherina, 1 S , Tapajos (Bates), 2 cJ ; 

 Bolivia {Buckley), type 1 6 ohscura in Coll. Druce. Eocj). 42-44 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male with the tornus rounded, the inner area without 

 fold and tuft. 



A. Fore wing with crimson postmedial band inaurata. 



B. Fore wing with ochreous white postmedial band ochriplaga. 



C. Fore wing without postmedial band. 



a. Ventral surface of abdomen with the medial segments 

 crimson. 



a^. Fore wing with golden-green discoidal bar lydia. 



b^. Fore wing without discoidal bar. 



a^. Fore wing with crimson bar beyond the cell on 



underside and sometimes also on upperside mygdon. 



b'^. Fore wing without crimson bar beyond the cell on 



underside aplaga. 



h. Ventral surface of abdomen without crimson alpha. 



