MACROGLOSSA. 151 



1. M. flavofasciata Walker, C. B. M. p. 87. 



Testaceous blackish beneath. Head with a blackish band in 

 front. Abdomen blackish, with a testaceous tuft on each side at 

 the tip. Wings blackish-brown, with a broad oblique luteous 

 band. Fore wings somewhat luteous beneath toward the base. 

 Length of the body 8 lines, of the wings 20 lines. 



Albany River; Hudson's Bay. 



Clemens. 



§§ Antennae slender, scarcely clavato-prismatic ; tongue about 

 one-half as long as the body; not pilose. 



2. M. tantalus Linn. Sphinx ixion Linn. Sphinx zonata Drury. Sphinx 



titan Cram. M. annulosum Swainson, pi. 132, f. 1. M. balteata? 

 Kirtland. Figured in Cram. pi. 68. Drury, pi. 26. Swains, pi. 132. 



Head, palpi above and thorax brown, but in the recent specimen 

 tinged with deep olivaceous; palpi beneath whitish, and the breast 

 and legs ash-colored or brownish-white in the male ; in the female 

 these parts have a more or less brownish hue. Abdomen brown 

 or olivaceous brown, with the third segment banded above with 

 white; beneath brown, the upper segments in the males having an 

 ashy hue, with four white points on the lateral, hind portions of 

 the ventral segments; lateral terminal tufts blackish-brown, the 

 central testaceous. Anterior wings ferruginous-brown with a dou- 

 ble row of whitish spots extending from the discal spot to the inner 

 margin ; discal spot blackish surrounded with white ; with three 

 white subterminal spots approximated in the subcosto-inferior, me- 

 dio-superior, and central interspaces, and a terminal dull brownish 

 band. Posterior wings blackish, costal border pale brownish-white, 

 fringe above white and short. 



South America; Mexico; West Indies; Texas; Ohio. 



Clemens. 



3. M. ceculus Cramer II, 80, pi. 146. M.fasciatum Swainson II, pi. 132. 



Head, palpi and thorax obscure brown; palpi beneath and breast 

 white. Thorax with a blackish patch above the base of the wings. 

 Abdomen brown inclining to blackish posteriorly, with two orange- 

 colored spots on each side of the second and third segments, a 

 blackish-brown patch on the fourth and a pale yellow spot on the 

 fifth, with a lateral tuft beneath it of the same hue. Terminal 

 tufts dark brown. Abdomen beneath brown. Anterior wings 

 obscure purplish-brown, varied with dark brown; a dark brown 



