BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIIDiE. 3°9 



Male. — Head, collar, and antennae black ; palpi black, red basally beneath. Thorax metallic 

 blue black with the patagia tipped with red posteriorly and a red patch on each side beneath. 

 Abdomen wholly metallic blue black above and below. Anal tuft red, blue black on each side 

 above. Legs wholly blue black. Fore wings bright metallic blue or green black with a red streak 

 on the inner margin basally. Underside same as the upper. Hind wings transparent, with a blue 

 black border. 



Expanse : 15-18 mm. 

 Habitat. — California. 

 Types : One male ; P. eremocarpi, one male. Coll. Hy. Edwards, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Sesia floridensis {Grote). 



Plate XXXII, Fig. ii, Male. 



Pyrrhotcenia floridensis Grote, Can. Ent. Vol. VII, 1875, P- x 74; New Check List N. Am. Moths, 

 1882, p. 12 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. IV, 1892, p. 175 ; ibid. Vol. 

 VIII, 1896, p. 145 ; ibid. Vol. IX, 1897, p. 220. 



Male. — Head and antennae black ; palpi black at the base, red towards the tip. Collar red. 

 Thorax blue black with a prominent red transverse mark posteriorly, and a red patch on each side 

 below. Abdomen blue black with the fourth segment above and below bright red, and a red band 

 on each of the last two segments above. Anal tuft black, very narrowly edged with white laterally. 

 Legs black, tarsi red, hind tibiae red with a black band ; anterior coxae with a red stripe. Fore wings 

 metallic purple black with a short transparent basal streak, cell and a few outer rays and inner 

 margin basally bright red. Underside red, veins purplish. Hind wings transparent bordered with 

 violet brown. Underside with border red, fringes brown. 



Expanse : 14-18 mm. 



Habitat. — Florida. 



Type : One male. Coll. Hy. Edwards, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Sesia geliformis {Walker). 



Plate XXXII, Fig. 4, Female. 



Algeria geliformis Walker, Cat. Lepid. Brit. Mus. Pt. VIII, 1856, p. 46 ; Hy. Edwards, Papilio, 

 Vol. I, 1881, p. 208 ; Druce, Biol. Cent.-Amer. Vol. I, Het. 1883, p. 32, pi. v., figs. 12 

 and 17. 



Trochilium geliformis Morris, Synop. Lepid. N. Am. 1862, p. ^^ 



Sesia geliformis Boisduval, Suites a Buffon, Nat. Hist. Lepid. Het. Vol. I, 1874, p. 441. 



Pyrrhotcenia geliformis Grote, New Check List N. Am. Moths, 1882, p. 12 ; Hy. Edwards, Pa- 

 pilio, Vol. Ill, 1883, p. 157 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, 



P. 145- 

 Sciapter on geliformis Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. XVI, 1895, p. 349. 



Male. — Head, thorax, palpi, antennas, and legs wholly black with a greenish lustre. Abdomen 

 above and below bright red, except the first segment which is blue black. Anal tuft red, marked 

 with black laterally. Fore wings opaque, wholly blue black above and below. Hind wings trans- 

 parent, margin rather broad, brown black. 



Female. — Same as the male but larger and more robust. 



Expanse : Male, about 10 mm. ; female, 15-19 mm. 



Habitat. — Florida, St. Vincent, Br. West Indies, and Mexico. 



Type : One male. Coll. British Museum. 



