LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA.. 263 



Sphinx Thetis, Linn. Mant. i 539. 



Zygsena Thetis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 160, 13 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 103, 15 ; 



Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 391, 17. Drury, Ins. 1, pi. 26, f. 4. 

 Sphinx Zygaena Thetis, Gmel. ed. Syst. ]\at. i. 5, 2393, 115. 

 Sphinx adscita Leneus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 95, pi. 248, f. G. 

 Calonotos Thetis, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 123, 1331. 

 Zygaena? Thetis, Westw. ed. Drury, i. 52, pi. 26, f. 4. 



Surinam. Jamaica. 



Var. ? Mas. Fusca ; thorax rufo bimaculatus ; abdomen cyaneo- 

 viride, subtus album apicem versus fuscum ; alee anticce apice 

 albce ; postica nigrce fascia cinereo-hyalina basi albo ciliatce , 

 coxa? et femora subtus alba. 



E. Capys, male P Dark brown. Head wanting. Thorax with 

 a red spot on each side in front. Fore wings with snow white tips ; 

 veins blackish. Hind wings black with a broad grayish hyaline 

 stripe which does not extend so far as in E. Capys P and with a 

 fringe of white hairs along the inner border. Abdomen bright 

 bluish green ; under side white, brown towards the tip ; coxae and 

 femora white beneath. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



112. EUCHROMIA ARONTES. 



Ala? fusca> ; anticce apice pallidiores, fascia obliqua flava nigro 

 punctata albo marginata, maculaque purpurea; posticce basi 

 pallidiores. 



Sphinx adscita Arontes, Cram. Pap. Exot. \v. 184, pi. 382, f. E. 

 Surinam. 



Group 27. SCENA. 



Corpus pilosum. Oculi magni. Proboscis longa. Alae opacae ; 

 anticae longae, augustae. Abdomen thorace fere duplo longius. 

 Pedes validiusculi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor sat longis. 



