ILLUSTRATIONS 
OF 
TYPE SPECIMENS 
OF 
LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
SPHINGID^. 
CHiEROCAlIPA, Duponchel. 
Chserocampa crotonis. (Plate XV. fig. 1.) 
Chaerocampa crotonis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 133. n. 10 (1856). 
Body and primaries sap-green : head, collar, and tegulse margined with sordid whitish : 
abdomen with a central longitudinal whitish streak ; a large black spot on each side of the 
basal segment ; remaining segments dull golden at the sides, interrupted by a tapex'ing lateral 
brown streak : primaries above with a black spot on lower discocellular veinlet ; seven 
oblique dark streaks running from internal margin to apex, the first and fourth from the 
inside being widest and darkest : secondaries black, with a discal series of pale yellow spots. 
Undersurface tawny, speckled and barred with black and grey ; primaries with blackish basal 
area. Expanse of wings 4 inches 2 lines. 
Venezuela [Dyson). 
DARAPSA, Walker. 
Darapsa rhodocera. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 
Darapsa rhodocera, WaVcer, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 184. n. 4 (1856). 
Greyish mouse-colour, clouded with bronzy brown ; the collar and outer margin of 
tegulse bordered with whitish : abdomen rather pale at the sides, with a black spot on each 
side of the basal segment ; antennae rosy : primaries with a small pale-bordered grey spot on 
lower discocellular ; a partially brown-edged, whitish, sericeous, oblique discal streak, beyond 
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