﻿NORTH AMERICAN SPHINGID.E. 159 



I think the following is the male of Ficus. Should the conjecture be wrong, I 

 would propose for it the name Lyncea. 



Bright pure brown somewhat tinged with ferruginous. Thorax with a purplish reflection. Palpi 

 beneath white. Abdomen paler than thorax, pale yellowish on the sides and between the basal rings. 

 Anterior wings with a paler rather broad stripe near the base containing a dark brown line and indistinct 

 lines of the same hue crossing the middle of the disc ; discal spot conspicuous, ferruginous brown, with 

 three separated, denticulated, rather indistinct dark brown lines crossing the middle of the nervules ; a 

 semi-oval, apical, pale luteous patch, bordered beneath by a triangular ferruginous brown shade, with a pale 

 purplish patch at the interior angle. Posterior wings ochraceous, with a central black band not extended 

 to costa, and a marginal blackish band tapering toward the inner angle, bordered above by a series of black 

 dots on the nervules continued as a line toward the inner margin ; the inner angle covered above with 

 niveous scales. The wings beneath ochraceous, both anterior and posterior with a row of sub-terminal 

 blackish dots and the latter with a faint central dark line. 



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



Measurements — a Male. 



HEAD. 



THOKAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



4-00 4-25—2-75 



9-50 6-00 



17-50 6-00 



28-50 



26-00 



Anterior wings rather narrower than the preceding, more 'pointed at the tip and the hind border more 



distinctly sinuous. 

 49. P. Inornata.— Sphinx Ficus Cramer, IV. 216, pi. 394, f. D. Pachylia Ficus Walker, p. 189. 



Dull greenish brown or dark reddish brown. Abdomen rusty brown on the sides. Anterior wings in 

 the 2 with an olivaceous hue toward the base and somewhat purplish posteriorly. A pale brownish nearly 

 semi-circular patch on the middle of costa extending beneath to the medio-superior and behind to the 

 post-apical nervule ; this is bordered by a broad umber brown band, which sends off to the middle of inner 

 margin a short band of the same hue. There is only one distinct denticulated umber brown line crossing 

 the middle of the nervules, and is sometimes obsolete. A semi-oval, apical pale brown patch, tinged with 

 dull greenish and bordered beneath by a triangular umber brown shade. Posterior wings nearly concolorous 

 umber brown, or deep reddish brown, deepened to an obscure marginal blackish band. The inner angle 

 curved above with niveous scales. 



From collection of W. H. Edwards and Acad. Nat. Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Honduras and Brazil. 







Measurements — a Female. 









HEAD. 



THORAX. ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



2-75 



4-00—2.50 



7-50 6-00 12-00 6-50 



22-00 



26-00 



50. P. Resumens. — Walker, p. 190. 



Fawn color, paler beneath. Abdomen with a black band on each of the three basal segments ; the four 

 following segments with two black spots on each. Fore wings with several undulating transverse brown 

 lines, with a brown discal dot and with three brown dots near the interior angle ; exterior border cinereous. 

 Hind wings paler, with a black discal stripe, which is connected at the tip of the wings with a black 

 marginal stripe. Length of the body 17 — 18 lines; of the wings 40 — 42 lines. 



