270 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



1. E. lichas Fabr. Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Schmett. 12, 21, f. 41, 42. 



Black, with shining green reflection. Wings bright red, with a 



median green streak and white punctures. Abdomen black, with 



two golden bands. 



Cuba, St. Domingo. 



Walker. 



Group Beiemnia. 



Belemnia Walker, 211. 



Body rather long and narrow. Body and wings brilliantly me- 

 tallic. Antennae setaceous, more than half the length of the body, 

 thickly and rather deeply pectinated to full three-fourths of the 

 length in the male. Fore wings long, moderately broad, opaque 

 and squamose, with red or yellow semi-hyaline spots towards the 

 tips. Hind wings angular on the hind border near the base. Ab- 

 domen linear, not petiolated. Legs slender, not plumose. Tibiae 



with short spurs. 



Walker. 



1. E. eryx Fabr. Sphinx inaurata Cram. Pap. Ill, 67, pi. 140, f. E, F. 



Wings black. Fore wings golden towards the base, with a 

 discal spot and the abdomen beneath, blood-red. 



In this species the following varieties of color occur: — 



Var. a. Head and thorax with gilded or golden green spots. 

 Fore wings gilded towards the base, with a red spot in the disk. 

 Abdomen with a cupreous stripe, bright green towards the base 

 and bright blue towards the tip on each side. 



Var. b. Like Var. a. Abdomen with gilded green spots on 

 each side along the whole length. 



Var. c. Spots on the fore wings yellow. Red beneath the ab- 

 domen extending partly over the sides above on the hinder half. 



West Indies, South and Central America. 



Walker. 



Group Automaiis. 



Automalis Walker, 213. 



Approaches the Lithosiides in structure. Body more or less 

 metallic. Third joint of the palpi very short. Antennae pecti- 

 nated to the tips. Wings broad, opaque, more or less spotted, 

 metallic at the base. Abdomen rather short, extending very little 



