﻿150 CLEMENS' SYNOPSIS OF 



(Jinereous, reddish beneath. Palpi red. Thorax with two dark brown abbreviated stripes. Abdomen 

 with dark brown bands, red on the sides. Anterior wings glaucescent and testaceous mixed, with several 

 blackish brown sub-trigonate patches. Posterior wings red, with a denticulated black band varied with 

 glaucescent, with the exterior margin brown and the cilia white. 



Closely allied to P. Achemon. 



Geographical distribution. — Mexico. 



45. P. Labruscs;. Madam Merian, Ins. Surin. pi. 34. Sphinx Labruscae Linn. Mus. L. Ulr. 



852 ; Fair. Sp. Ins. II. 152, 57 j Mant. Ins. II. 98, 63 ; Ent. Syst. III. 1, 377, 66 ; Clerc. Icon. pi. 



47, f. 3 • Cramer, II. 133, pi. 184, f. A.; Gmel. Si/st. Nat. I. 5, 2380, 14 ; Swainson, II. pi. 87. 



Hubn. Exot. Schmett. Band. I., Lep. II., Sph. III., Leg. II., Eumorph. A., Eleg. A. Argeus 



Labruscje Hubn. Verz. Schmett. Philampelus Labruscse Walker, p. 178. 

 Green, testaceous beneath. The abdomen sometimes and rarely the whole body and anterior wings 

 testaceous. Abdomen with a black spot at base on each side, beneath and at sides spotted with white. 

 Anterior wings green, with two darker bands margined with white, one of which crosses the disc and 

 meets an oblique one on the inner margin. Posterior wings blue, with a black angulated band edged 

 interiorly with red and a sub-terminal black band breaking into black lines toward interior angle on a 

 reddish ground ; terminal margin testaceous. 



Madam Merian represents the larva without a caudal horn, the anterior segments 

 swollen and with lateral oval spots. 



Geographical distribution. — S. America, Mexico, West Indies. 



§§ Eyes large. Pore wings nearly straight. 



46. P. vitis. Merian, Ins. Surin. pi. 47, f. 1. Sphinx vitis Drury, I. 60, pi. 28, f. 1. 



Cramer, III. 136, 138, pi. 267, f. C; pi. 268, f. 9; Linn. Syst. Nat. II. 801, 16; Mus. Lud. Ulr. 

 354 ; Wein. Schmett. 238. Fair. Sp. Ins. II. 147, 35 j Mant. Ins. II. 96, 39 ; Hnt. Syst. III. 1, 

 369, 41. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1, 5, 2380, 16. Abbot & Smith, I. 79, pi. 46. Dupo vitis 'Verz. Schmett. 

 137, 1466. Philampelus vitis Harris, p. 299, 1 ; Duncan, 36, p. 104, pi. 7. Philampelus Horn- 

 beckiana Harris, p. 299, note. (?~) 

 Head and thorax grayish tinged with greenish. Thorax with a dorsal dark olive line, tegulge dark olive 

 edged with white. Abdomen dark olive, paler on the sides, with a pale dorsal line ; a blackish patch on 

 the sides at base and a dark olive dorsal patch at the base. Anterior wings deep olive, with a double 

 whitish transverse line toward the base, a pale buff colored band, (in faded specimens white or whitish,) 

 extending from the base to the tip, crossed by another of the same hue from the lower third of inner margin 

 to costa beyond the origin of post-apical vein and containing posteriorly a dark olive line ; the nervules of 

 the median nerve pale flesh color or whitish when faded ; discal spot double and black. Posterior wings 

 pale green, pale yellowish along the costa, with a central black line terminating in a black patch near the 

 middle of inner margin and a sub-terminal black band tapering to interior angle ; the inner margin rose 

 red, enclosing above the interior angle a whitish spot ; terminal margin cinereous. 

 Smithsonian Institution. From Capt. Pope's collection in Texas. 

 Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? ■ 



Mature Larva. — Head reddish with two black lines in front. Body flesh color mixed with yellow, and 

 with short, transverse black lines. The lateral semi-oval bands are yellowish white, edged with black. 

 Body beneath the stigmata? is greenish with black lines and stigmatal blackish dots on the three anterior 

 segments ; lenticular tubercle blackish with dorsal black lines. Abbot & Smith. 



