184 CATALOGUE OF 



West Indies. 



Group 1. 



3. Darapsa Pholus. 



Rufescens ; alee anticce nigro-fuscce plaga trigona discali cinerea, 

 extus ccrvince plaga postica lineaque submarginali rubris, 

 fasciis duabus margineque exteriore fuscis ; posticce rubra, 

 basi pallidiores, margine postico apud angulum interiorem 

 inciso. 



Sphinx Pholus, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 137, pi. 87, f. B. Fabr. Sp. 

 Ins. ii. 143, 20 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 94, 23; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 363. 

 24. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2376, 65. 



West Indies. 



Group 2. 



Proboscis medioeriter longa. Pedes sat validi, mediocriter 

 longi ; tibiarum posticarum calcares quatuor breves. Alae longae, 

 satangustse; anticse subacuminatse, apud costse apicem convexse; 

 margine exteriore perobliquo subconvexo, interiore apicem versus 

 subconcavo ; posticaB vix acuminata. 



Proboscis moderately long. Legs rather stout, moderately 

 long ; hind tibiae with four short spurs. Wings long, rather nar- 

 row. Fore wings slightly acuminated, convex in front towards the 

 tips ; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique ; interior border 

 slightly concave from half its length to the interior angle. Hind 

 wings hardly acuminated. 



4. Darapsa rhodocera. 



Cervina ; capitis thoracisque later a albida ; antenna rosea ; abdo- 

 men maculis duabus basalibus nigricantibus ; alee anticce cine- 

 rascentes, linea obliqua exteriore, gutta discali fuscescente, 

 maculisque duabus diffusis ferrugineis ; posticce nigricantes, 

 apud angulum interiorem albidce. 



Fawn-colour, paler beneath. Sides of the head and of the 

 thorax whitish. Antenna? rose-colour above. Abdomen paler than 

 the thorax, with a blackish spot on each side at the base. Fore 

 wings with a cinereous tinge, with an oblique exterior line, with a 

 brownish discal clot, and with two diffuse ferruginous spots, one in 

 front, the other behind ; eilise ferruginous. Hind wings blackish, 



