Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia? FAMILY: Zygænidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. GLAUCOPIS, _Fabr._ Charidea, _Dalm._ Sphinx, _Linn._
GLAUCOPIS FENESTRATA. Alis anticis nigris, maculâ magnâ discoidali fere
ocellatâ fenestratâ, posticis fenestratis margine nigro, pedibus
palpisque coccineis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Sphinx Fenestrata, _Drury_, _App. v._ 2.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ nearly black, and pectinated. Head and eyes black.
Palpi small and long, and of a fine scarlet. Tongue spiral. Thorax
blueish green, almost black. Abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings the same,
the middle part being perfectly transparent like glass, wherein is a dark
cloud which is joined to the anterior margin. Posterior wings small,
transparent, with a dark brown narrow border running round their edges,
which at the upper corners is broad where it becomes cloud-like.
_Under Side._ Breast dark brown. Legs and thighs scarlet, which colour
extends along the middle of the abdomen, almost to the tail, where it
becomes a little fainter, being crossed by the rings of the abdomen,
which are black and very narrow. All the wings of the same colour as on
the upper side.
SPHINX CINGULATA.
Plate XXV. fig. 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia. FAMILY: Sphingidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. SPHINX, _Auct._
SPHINX CINGULATA. Alis anticis cinereo atroque undatis, puncto parvo
discoidali; posticis nigro fasciatis, basi sanguineis, abdominis fasciis
alternis interruptis sanguineis et atris. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Sphinx Cingulata, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 395. _No._ 56.
Sphinx Convolvuli var. _Drury_, _Append. vol._ 2. (Exclus. _Syn. Gmel.
Linn. S. N._ 2376. _No._ 6.) _Abbot and Smith Ins. Georg._ 1. _tab._ 32.
HABITAT: St. Christopher's.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ white on one side, and brown on the other. Thorax
dark brown, with several curved lines running across it from one shoulder
to the other. The abdomen, on the upper part is beautifully encircled
with five rings of rose colour, and six of black, extending to its sides,
having on the top of it a line of a rusty brown, which runs from the base
to the extremity. Anterior wings brown chesnut, marked with lighter and
darker clouds, some of which are almost black; having a lighter spot near
the middle, and not far from the anterior margin. Posterior wings at the
base black, but along the external edges of a grey brown, the middle
being occupied by three bars of red, ash, and faint rose colours,
separated by three black waved lines crossing them from the anterior to
the interior. Cilia brown spotted with white.
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