Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Family Zygnid, with ... - Wallace Online

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11. c. auGE=Sphinx auge, Linnaus, Syst. Nut. ii. p. 807. n. 46.
C. omphale, Hubnw, Samml. ex. Schmett. ii. Hyalinse, f. 1-4.
Florida (Doubleday), St. Thomas (Zornbeck), Jamaica (Gosse). B.M.
This species has no connexion whatever with Sphinx eagrzcs of
Cramer, with which Walker has made it synonymous : the Linnaean
deacription mill only agree with one insect ; aud that is the C.
omphale of Hiibner.
12. C. COCCINEUM, n. sp.
Head black, frons metallic green ; antennz black ; collar, pterygodes,
and thorax srrrlet, mnrgin of metnthorax and glandular drums black
with a broad metallic blue-green external border ; abdomen rose-red j
wings hyaline-white, veins black, outer and inner margins rather
broadly dark brown ; primaries with apex broadly dark brown ; a Rub-
costal line, the base and basi-internal area scarlet ; secondaries with
base and basi-costal area rose-red ; pectus black-brown ; coxse and
trochanters metnllic blue-green, legs otherwise brown ; venter white ;
wings below nearly as above; primaries with reddish ochraceous instead
of scarlet, secondaries with scarlet instead of rose-red ; expanse of
wings 47 millims.
Espiritu Snnto (Higgins). Type, B.M.
More nearly allied to C. auge than to any other species, but
very distinct.
13. C. HANGA= Lremocharis hangs, Herr.-Sch. Auss. Schm. fig. 246.
Espiritu Santo (Steams). B.BL
14. C. PYRRHOSTETHUB, n. sp.
Head black, frons metallic blue-green ; antennae black; collar, ptery-
godes, and thorax red ; mesothorax with a large posterior, central,
rounded, blae spot, metathorax with a smaller central elongnted spot ;
abdomen black spotted with blue-green at the sides : wings nearly as
in C. coccineum, but with n decided blackish oblique spot on the dis-
cocellulars of primaries, a..d the red coloration paler: body below
dark brown ; cox= and trochanters spotted with blue-green, remainder
of legs clay-coloured : expanse of wings 42 millims.
New Granada. Type, B.M.
15. C. TELEPHUS = Glaucopis (Cosmosoma) telephus, Walker, Lep.
Het. i. p. 170.
Closely allied to the preceding species, but without the blackish spot on
the discocellulars of primaries, and altogether brighter in colouring,
also without the blue spot on mesothorax.
Venezuela (Dyson 4 Becker).
Type, B.M.