188 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



these spots are short white marks. The legs and under surface of 

 thorax blackish-gray, and whitish in the middle. Anterior wings 

 are brown in the greater part, separated by an exceedingly irregu- 

 lar outline from a black costal portion covered with dispersed pale- 

 blue scales, and which is dilated from the costa into an angular 

 basal, a large nearly square median, and an apical irregularly-oval 

 patch ; the brown portion has two broad dilations toward the 

 costa, both extending to the sub-costal nerve. The median black 

 patch contains a small white discal dot, and is edged beneath and 

 behind by pale-brownish. The post-apical nervule and sub-costo 

 inferior are pale-colored, and toward the termination of medio- 

 central and posterior nervules are four small black spots, two on 

 either side of each. The fringes are brown, broadly spotted with 

 black. Posterior wings are pale-brownish and grayish from the 

 middle to the base, with a large black patch at base, two central 

 black bands, and between the latter and the former an oblique 

 demi-line ; a moderate, black marginal band, having a bluish one 

 in its centre. The fringes black, spotted with brown. 



Honduras. 



Clemens. 



7. M. cingulata Linn. Sphinx dnircei, Donovan. Sphinx convolvuli, 

 Druiy. Figured in Drury, 1, pi. 25. Cram. pi. 225. Sm. Abb. 1, 

 pi. 32. 



Head, ends of palpi and thorax cinereous, with a brownish tinge ; 

 palpi white beneath, prothorax with two blackish lines and tegulse, 

 with one central and one on superior margin of the same hue ; me- 

 tathoracic tufts black, with a few bluish scales. Abdomen brown- 

 ish cinereous, with large rose-colored lateral patches, separated by 

 black bands. Anterior wings grayish-brown, with a grayish spot 

 at base, irregular dark-brown angulated lines crossing the disk, 

 and discal spot whitish, ringed with blackish ; three dark-brown 

 lines curving across the middle of the nervules, and bordered pos- 

 teriorly with brownish-gray, in which the last line is produced into 

 points on the nervules ; a row of dark-brown circlets on the poste- 

 rior nervules, with a line of the same hue in post-apical interspace 

 extended to the tip, and streaks of the same hue in the central and 

 posterior interspaces. Posterior wings rosy toward the base, with 

 a central black band and black demi-line above it, a grayish space 

 posteriorly, and a broad marginal cinereous band, bordered above 

 with black. Legs cinereous, thorax and abdomen beneath white. 



