258 catalogue of 



3. Ccequosa ? Phalaris. 



Fulvescens ; thorax linea nigra ; abdomen fasciis angustis fuscis ; 

 alee antic® fuscescentes striga basali rufa, viita postica plaga- 

 que subapicali glaucis, fascia obliqua fusca, lineis exterioribus 

 tribus obliquis strigaque costali subapicali nigricantibus, mar- 

 gine exteriore cervino ; posticce rufa, costa cervina, plaga 

 apud unguium interior em glauca. 



Sphinx Phalaris, Cram, Pap. Exot. ii. 83, pi. 149, f. A. 



Coromandel. 



Genus 39. CERATOMIA. 



Corpus robustum. Caput breve, vix conicum. Proboscis 

 brevis. Palpi longiusculi. Antennae setacea?. Abdomen sublineare, 

 thorace vix duplo longius. Pedes sat validi; tibia? postica? calcari- 

 bus quatuor longiusculis. Ala? longa?, raediocriter lata?; antica? 

 vix acuminata?, apud costam subconvexa?, margine exteriore sub- 

 recto perobliquo ; postica? apice subrotundata?. Mas. — Antenna? 

 serrata?. Fcem. — Antenna? simplices. 



Ceratomia, Harris, Amer. Journ. Sci. xxxvi. 293. 



Body stout. Head short, hardly conical. Proboscis short. 

 Palpi a little longer than usual. Antenna? setaceous. Abdomen 

 almost linear, nearly twice the length of the thorax. Legs rather 

 stout; hind tibia? with four rather long spurs. Wings long, mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings hardly acuminated, very slightly convex 

 in front, almost straight, and very oblique along the exterior border ; 

 second inferior vein hardly further from the third than from the 

 fourth ; third about twice further from the fourth than from the 

 second. Hind wings somewhat rounded at the tips. Male. — An- 

 tenna? serrated. Female. — Antenna? simple. 



1. Ceratomia quadricornis. 



Cervina ; caput supra thoracisque latera albida ; thorax fascia an- 

 tica vittisque duabus fuscis nigro marginatis ; abdomen linea 

 interrupta media vittisque quatuor nigris ; alee ciliis albo 

 maculatis ; anticee albido varies, lineis transversis obliquis un- 

 dulatis obscurioribus, apud discum fusees centes strigis quatuor 

 obliquis nigris, lineis posticis subundulatis albidis fuscisque, 

 macula discali alba; postica? fasciis fuscis. 



Ceratomia quadricornis, Harris. Amer. Journ. Sci. xxxvi. 293. 



a, b. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 c. Massachusetts. From Prof. Sheppard's collection. 



