LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 113 



Sphinx infausta, Linn. Syst. Nat. 71, 807, 43. Fuessli, Arch. Ins. 



I, pi. 2, tig. b. Esp. Pap. ii. 226, pi. 35, f. 4 ; Pap. d'Eur. iii. 



74, pi. 103, f. 152. De Villers, Ent. Linn. ii. 109, 43, pi. 4. f. 



19. Borkk. Eur. Schmett. ii. 32, 23 ; 125, 22 ; 167, 23 ; Rhein. 



Mag. i. 648. Scriba, Bei/tr. iii. 218, pi. 16. f. 12—14. Lang, 



Verz. 78, 623, 624. H'ubn. Sphing. 77, 4, pi. 1, f. 5. Law, 



Lep. ii. Sphing. 1. Pap. A, f. 4. 

 Zygama infausta, Fabr. Sp. Lis. ii. 163, 31 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 105, 36 ; 



Ent.Syst. iii. 1, 397, 38. 

 Sphinx Zygaena infausta, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2396, 43. 

 Bombyx infaustus, Schr. Faun. Bote. ii. 1, 252. 

 Stygia infausta, Lam. Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert. iv. 3, 4. 

 Aglaope infausta, Lair. Nouv. Diet, a" Hist. Nat. God. Hist. Nat. 



Lep. France, iii. 165, 53, pi. 22, f. 18. Guer. Icon. Regne 



Anim. Ins. pi. 84 bis, f. 9, larva 

 Procris infausta, Herr.-Schceff. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Suppl. ii. 



26, 1. 

 Atychia infausta, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. ii. 17, 4. H'ubn. Verz. 



Schmett. 120, 1296. Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. Pap. 243, f 



419. 



South France. Boppard, on the Ehine. 

 a. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



Div. 3. Alae anticae inaeulata^ 



18. Procris contraria. 



Nigra; antenna? nigro-virides,valida, late pectinate ; thorax luteo- 

 bimaculatits ; abdomen luteum ; alee antica? luteo quinqw- 

 maculatce ; posticce rufce nigra marginatce. 



Black. Antennae dark green, stout, deeply pectinated. Thorax 

 with a luteous spot on each side in front. Abdomen luteous. Fore 

 wings with five luteous spots, one at the base, two close together 

 before the middle of the disk, and two smaller and more apart at half 

 the distance between the two preceding and the tip of the wing. 

 Hind wings bright red, with a very broad black border which is 

 much indented on the hind margin. Fore coxae clothed with luteous 

 hairs. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



It agrees with the Zygoma in colour, and differs much from all 

 the other species of Procris. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



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