_Under Side._ Breast black, spotted with white at the base. The abdomen dark brown at the base, behind which is pale red tinged with white; the extremity dark brown. Anus pale red. The wings are the same colour as on the upper side. {51}SYNTOMIS CERBERA. Plate XXVI. fig. 2. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia? FAMILY: Zygænidæ, _Leach_. GENUS. SYNTOMIS, _Fabr_. Sphinx, _Linn. Drury_. SYNTOMIS CERBERA. Viridi-atra, alis anticis punctis sex fenestratis, posticis duobus, abdomine cingulis duobus sanguineis (postico latissimo). SYN. Sphinx Cerbera, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 2. 806. 38. _Cramer, tab._ 83. _fig_. F. Zygæna Cerbera, _Fabr. Ent. Syst_. III. 1. _p._ 391. _No._ 16. Sphinx Cerbera, _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2393. 38. Syntomis Cerbera, _Boisduv. Monogr. Zygæn. pl._ 7. _f._ 6. HABITAT: Cape of Good Hope. _Upper Side._ Antennæ and head black. Thorax and abdomen shining blueish green; the latter having on the middle three rings of scarlet extending from side to side, but not meeting underneath. Anterior wings dark green, with six transparent spots like glass on them; the smallest, near the base, is round; three others, placed next the external margin, are oblong; the other two, which are in the middle, are oval and triangular. Posterior wings dark green, with two transparent spots; the largest next the shoulders; the other, which is round and small, beyond the middle. _Under Side._ Breast, abdomen, and legs shining mazarine blue, inclining to green; on the former is a small red spot, close to the shoulders of the superior wings. The hinder legs have one joint white. Wings of the same colour as on the upper side. DEILEPHILA CHIRON. Plate XXVI. fig. 3. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia. FAMILY: Sphingidæ, _Leach_. GENUS. DEILEPHILA, _Ochsenheimer_. Spectrum p. _Scop._ Sphinx p. _Linn._ DEILEPHILA CHIRON. Alis anticis castaneis, fasciâ obliquâ pallidâ utrinque fusco marginatâ, posticis nigris maculis quinque albidis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.) SYN. Sphinx Chiron, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. HABITAT: Jamaica. _Upper Side._ Antennæ and head chesnut; a flesh-coloured line encircles the eyes, running to the shoulders, where it becomes white. Thorax chesnut. Abdomen rather paler on the top; underneath very light clay colour. Anterior wings sorrel chesnut, having two faint oblique waved lines crossing them from the tips to the middle of the posterior edges, where is a small cloud the colour of blue clay, and next the shoulders is a small narrow cream-coloured mark. Posterior wings dark brown, with a row of yellow cream-coloured spots running from the anal angle towards the middle of the anterior margin.