_Under Side._ Palpi brown. Tongue short. Breast, sides, and legs paler than on the upper side. Wings pale sandy-coloured, except a few small, round, dark spots dispersed over them, but scarcely discernible. Margins of all the wings dentated. {47}PLATE XXV. [Illustration] SPHINX ANTÆUS. Plate XXV. fig. 1. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia. FAMILY: Sphingidæ, _Leach_. GENUS. SPHINX, _Auct._ SPHINX ANTÆUS. Alis anticis cinereis nigro undatis, posticis nigris basi rufis fasciâque fenestratâ, capite bicorni. (Expans. Alar. [male]. 6 unc.--[female]. 7 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Sphinx Antæus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. Sphinx Hydaspes, _Cram. Ins. tab._ 118. _fig._ A. Sphinx Jatrophæ, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 362. _No._ 22. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2376. 63. _Merian Ins. Surinam_, _tab._ 38. HABITAT: Jamaica (_Drury_). "In Americæ Jatropha gossypifolia." _Fabr._ _Upper Side._ Antennæ white underneath, and brown above. Head and thorax dark rusty brown. Abdomen the same on the upper part, but on each side of the second, third, and fourth rings are three yellow spots. Anterior wings dark rusty brown, with several black, waved, and indented lines placed in different parts; and in the middle, near the anterior edges, are two small, round, white spots placed on each wing. The middle of the posterior wings transparent like glass; with a deep brown or black border running along the external edges from the abdominal to the upper corners; the part next the body being yellow. _Under Side._ Breast and abdomen cream-coloured. Legs white and brown. Anterior wings, next the body, with two yellow longitudinal streaks; the remaining parts being red brown (differing from the colour on the upper side) without any other marks or clouds on them. Posterior wings coloured as on the upper side, except in the black border, which on this side is red brown. SMERINTHUS JAMAICENSIS. Plate XXV. fig. 2. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia. FAMILY: Sphingidæ, _Leach_. GENUS. SMERINTHUS, _Latr._ Laothoë, _Fabr._ (Syst. Gloss.) Sphinx, _Linn._ SMERINTHUS JAMAICENSIS. Alis anticis fusco, griseo, olivaceoque variis, posticis roseis ocello coeruleo nigro marginato. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 5 lin.) SYN. Sphinx ocellatus Jamaicensis, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. Sphinx ocellatus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 355. _No._ 1. _Gmel. Linn. Syst. N._ 2371. 1. HABITAT: Jamaica (_Drury_). "In Europæ Americæ Spiræâ, Salice, Pomonâ." _Fabr._